Sounds good pineal.. Are you renting or is it yours?
I think too, that once the initial adrenalin shock of something IS going to happen became something MAY happen to now, something MIGHT happen..has taken away all that spurring to action.
However my perspective has changed since those early days... as I'm sure is true for many here.. and I think.. just because it ISN'T going to happen, there's no reason why we can't plan or dream about a community we'd like to live in.. even if (shock-horror) NONE of this ever happens !
Life is oohh-sooo much more boring in reality... so I think we need to be thinking long term.
2012 is a red herring too I'm beginning to think. Since when does life place convenient signposts of action along its path ?
So I think, plan the future we want instead. We don't all have to live that way, but those that do will slowly gravitate towards a new way of living.
A farmhouse is a great start... well done you!
K