Blackford Farm/Canadia

I believe most of my readers have heard tales of my mini-farm dream, and most folks are also aware that I plan to have only all-black animals on the farm (some white spots will be allowed, but not so much that the animal would be called “black-and-white”). Someone once wrote a message to me in which they described coming to visit the farm with all the black-furred animals, which I thought was a cute way to describe it, so I’ve decided to call the place Blackford Farm. Now, I do not think I have to register the farm name in the states of Ohio or Florida, but some states do require name registration and the name has to be unique. So, I basically have to hope that those rules won’t change, and that if they do, no one takes that name before I can register it.

 

Thanks to Rachel for the latest inspiration for black-furred farm animals. After reading about these Kent critters on her blog, I sent a message to her and Heidi saying that we need to trap some of these and bring them down here so I can start a scurry of my own. {Yes, scurry. For some reason, I had thought a group of squirrels was called a “clutch,” but the only options I found via the internet were “dray” and “scurry”. While both are descriptive of squirrels in general, I think “clutch” sounds better.}

 

At any rate, I was delighted that Rachel and Heidi each replied separately with a suggestion that we should go to Canadia to snag the black squirrels. I have long thought that Canada should be referred to as Canadia, since her peoples are referred to as Canadians as opposed to Canadans. Although this opens a door that would have us using expressions like the “Bostonia Tea Party,” which sounds not nearly as good. So. I was trying to figure out how the term Canadia became popularized and I still don’t know, but what I do know is that there are a LOT of people who feel the same about this matter, because there are THREE separate urbandictionary.com entries for Canadia, and then I found this great site which has given Canadia a 49% evil/51% good rating*. I guess I can concede that Canadia is a little more good than bad. But only a little!

 

*Apologies to you if you, or any of your loved ones, are Canadians, Canadans, or Cangophiles. No animals were harmed in the making of this post. The US Surgeon General warns that smoking is hazardous to your health.