Oh where to begin? Barret and myself had been playing together for years when, one day, he moved to Zacks house. Finally we had some place to jam together on a regular basis. With the demise of Hollowithin this was exactly what I was looking for. Barret and I started jamming with the houses owner Zack, their roommate Chris, and a friend of Zacks, whom I'd met once thru Joe, Jon. This went on for a couple of weeks but was never really what any of us were looking for. Barret had mentioned jamming with a guy by the name of Rybo who he had met at the bar and managed to stayed in contact with. Barret and myself were jamming down in the basement at zacks one day when Rybo shows up and brings his friend, a man they call Schultzy, and asks "What you guys jamming on?" Why does this sound like the dialogue of a porn movie all of a sudden? Anyway, that's where it all started, in the basement, at Zacks' in the summer of 2003.

In the beginning Zack and Jon were jamming with us but soon Zack stopped coming down stairs. Then a month or so later Jon stopped showing up to play the keys. It was down to four people now but I'd like to think we made the best of it.

Zack stopped liking us jamming at his house so we had to relocate to the basement at Rybo's mom's house. This was fine for awhile but soon we became too loud for neighbors and the search was on again for a new location. This along with the news that Schultzy's wife was going to have a little schultzy seemed to be like signs of the end.

Fortunately our prayers were answered when Barret heard about a house for rent outside of town. I decided to move out there with him and his friend Geoff. The day I moved in was the first time I had seen the place but it worked out perfect. We had a room to set up the drums and guitars, what more could I ask? Everything seemed to be going in our favor for the time being. Schultzy's attendance was weaned with the birth of his son but practices were quite possibly more productive then ever. Barret eventually moved to Milwaukee, for a job, and I'm not sure if we practiced since. I know we tried to schedule practices but it never seems to work out.

Schultzy's wife is expecting again, his once limited time will become even more limited in the near future, so I'm not expecting much more music to come from Buying The Farm as a whole. I know we all still play but just not together.