Looking For A Better Farm

About a year after Mom died I got the idea of trying to rent a larger and better farm and trying my luck elsewhere. Ed Renz offered to buy the chickens and try to make a go of the egg route. Joe and Mike agreed to come with me. Joe and I looked around for several weeks with no luck, until Frank Riggle, a neighbor who lived on our lane up near Ridge Avenue, told us that he knew of some farms near Lansdale that might be for rent. So the three of us drove around and finally decided on one at the corner of Welsh Road and Dekalb Pike, about two miles from the center of Lansdale. It was not occupied and we looked around the house and barn and fields. On the way home we stopped at the real estate agent in Ambler. He did not know that it was not occupied. It seems that the former tenant had moved out without notice and owing several months rent.