Got it!

Today I got the email saying that Amazin' Grazers is now registered as an LLC with the State of WA and I have a UBI number! My official certificate should be coming next week. I had to call my dad I was so excited! I am going to be overusing exclamation marks throughout this post - be warned...I really am this excited! Dad is super excited too and he and his wife watched the Colbert Report where Tammy and Rent-A-Ruminant were featured and said it was "side-splitting." I watched it last night with a couple of friends after work and we laughed our assess off as well. My brother got to posting it before me and that was cool. Next is the Nightline piece, less hilarious but more informative I'm sure.
My next step is the business license and I got the manual from Tammy today in the mail! Gonna get in my jammies with some hot tea and work the computer. Tomorrow I will be off to check out farm stores with my buddy Juliet and maybe look at a pasture site and some trucks as well. GOt the word out for folks to send me logo ideas and then business cards and the website in Nov. I've got a couple of friends that I am going to do "trial runs" with when I get the goats so that I get some practice setting up and loading/unloading the goats so that I don't look like a complete idiot with my first paying customer. Also to get a real sense of how long it takes the goats I get to clear an area of brush, everything is so theoretical right now and I learn best by actually doing it. Like in Social Work we did practicums so we did the work while under specific supervision to learn by actually doing. Medical folks have residencies etc. as well. So one of these friends I had dinner with tonight and she suggested having a sign like landscapers or roofers or painters do to put on a front lawn so that passers-by can see who is doing the work. I can see it now - "Amazin' Grazers - Goats At Work". Especially in places where the goats may not be that visible from the street, it would be a great way to advertise and that's another benefit to doing the trial runs. Get people talking and seeing what's afoot! Word-of mouth is great advertisement. Friends are already hitting me up for rates etc. on Facebook so I'll definitely need something up and running with some info on it by the end of November.

I am actually having a good time doing all of this start up work so far. Getting the LLC information today is so cool because it is tangible evidence that this is happening, fer real. And I really like tangible. I can't wait to get my hands on some goats and start bonding with them! Oh the cuteness!