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Project Discussions:  Winter Wonderland~December 2018  |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Dec 10 2018 : 4:44:49 PM
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| I hope your day was wonderful too, Darlene! |
Texasgran |
Edited by - TexasGran on Dec 10 2018 4:45:23 PM |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 07:28:09 AM
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Another one of my little stories about a Texas woman I never met but wished I had. Yesterday my sister Betty gave me an apron that an antique dealer friend of hers gave her several years ago. It's a homemade half apron with these words written in longhand across the pockets and waist. Hostess Jennifer - Official Guide to The Backside of Nowhere.
Jennifer was the aunt to the antique dealer's husband and years ago Betty had picked berries on Jennifer's farm. Jennifer was the first woman who was a flagman for the railroad when it came through Lamar County. She worked for the railroad until she retired to her family's farm. She wanted a place where people could come and play games so she opened The Backside of Nowhere on her farm. A place to come for music, games, and to visit. Families welcomed. I would have loved to sat at a table with a tall glass of sweet iced tea and talked with Jennifer. Don't you know she would have stories to tell about her days with the railroad and the visitors to The Backside of Nowhere.
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FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 07:53:38 AM
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I just love your stories, Sara.
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Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 08:00:57 AM
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| Thanks Linda, I have always loved stories about women who lived their lives on their own terms. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 09:50:40 AM
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| Sara, perhaps you could write her into one of Pearl's great adventures! |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
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Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 10:00:56 AM
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Sara, that sure would have been a wonderful experience.
How great that you have her apron! |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 11:14:58 AM
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Marilyn you've given me something to think about. I'll have to change her name and the name of her place but it could be woven into one of Pearl's adventures. Let's see where I can place it - down in the bottoms along the Red River - (perfect place for a murder or two) or on a farm where Sorrow Creek runs through. No such creek in Lamar County - I just like the name.
Now for the name...
Denise it would have been an wonderful experience. If you could have tea with any woman in history or story who would she be? This question is opened to everyone. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6078 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 1:26:33 PM
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Oh Sara that would great if you did that! I will be looking forward to another one of Pearl’s adventures
I will be waiting
Hugs
Darlene |
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 1:55:34 PM
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Sara - Dry Creek goes right by Ed's property in Poetry, TX. How about that? LOL! Postry used to be a stagecoach stop.
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Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 2:55:05 PM
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I would love to sit and visit with Cyrena Paradine Durham Robinson. She was the mother of my daddy, who died when he was only ten years old. She was born in July, 1880...the very first white child born in Knox County, Texas. Her dad died the same day she was born but in another state. He was 38, and some think he was murdered. Her mom was left to fend for her family, some in their teens, others younger. My grandma was the youngest, of course. Her ancestors were among the early New England pilgrims as were my grandfather's.
Then I would love to visit with Julia Jane Bundrant Hunt Adams. She was my mother's mom. By the time I was 12 she was so deaf I could not carry on a conversation with her.
She could talk but not hear. She was the eldest child in her family of ten. She was the only girl with nine little brothers.She ran off and got married to young Mr. Hunt when she was 15 or 16. I recently learned that she was angry with my grandfather, because he was leaving, to go work on a passage of road up in the far North West part of the US. He knew he would be gone two or three years. When she was 19 she became pregnant... And Mr. Hunt left her. I have a letter from the rail road in Oklahome, that told her he was killed in an accident while working on the rail line they were putting in. Then she married her one true love when he came home. They had six more children. I learned so much from her, just watching how she did things. Now I know that somehow her French ancestry...even though never mentioned, had a great deal to do with how did did things. Her father had a considerable amount of land, a store and livery stable, at one time. Her grandfather was a Baptist minister. Her family came to America in 1700, from France. |
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Edited by - TexasGran on Dec 11 2018 2:59:02 PM |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 3:24:17 PM
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Thanks Darlene, it might be a fun story.
Linda, Dry Creek Farm has a ring to it and Texas sure does have dry creeks.
Marilyn I would like to join you with sitting down with your grandmothers and listening to their stories.
There's a little more to Jennifer's story besides The Backside to Nowhere. She was engaged to a young man. Before the wedding the groom and young men when in one direction to do their thing; and the girls went in another. After that night the wedding was called off and no one knew why or told why. They remained friends and promised to send Christmas cards to each other ever year for the rest of their lives and they did so. The other would know when the other had died because there would be no more cards. She did marry and went on live a happy life. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 5:59:18 PM
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I like Jennifer's story!
And oh if walls could talk!
A big mystery to me is how sad everyone looked in the old photos. I know their lives were hard, but even when my life has been difficult, when a camera came out and someone said smile...I tried! Last winter I went through my grandma's picture box...I was making an effort to give some photos to people they belonged to. # 1 I was surprised by the middle aged folks who were just becoming interested in their family history.
Good, bad, pretty, or ugly everyone should know something about their ancestry. |
Texasgran |
Edited by - TexasGran on Dec 11 2018 6:01:29 PM |
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6078 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2018 : 6:32:18 PM
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That is so true Marilyn, on my Fathers side of the family I don’t know much history and sure wish I did.
I treasure what I have.
Hugs. |
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3522 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
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Posted - Dec 12 2018 : 5:01:15 PM
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| I am enjoying these stories being told!! Isn't life and age so rich from people, family and friends that have been part of our lives? |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Dec 12 2018 : 7:54:31 PM
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I know - in old photographs no one smiled at all
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Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2018 : 01:17:45 AM
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| One of the reasons for no smiling in old photos was they had to hold a pose for so long for the cameras to take the pictures. Not to mention the high necks and tight bodices the women wore back then. Don't you think they took picture taking a lot more serious than we do. It may have been a once in lifetime experience. No one had their own camera - they had to wait until a traveling photographer came through their town or county. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3522 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3522 Posts |
Posted - Dec 13 2018 : 06:00:37 AM
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| Photos without smiles is something I never had a good answer for either. Sara, your thoughts seem like a good explanation . It does seem that they took photographs with a seriousness that we don't like. I wonder when the expression, say cheese, became the model so that everyone would be smiling? |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2018 : 06:28:32 AM
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| Winnie, off the top of your head do you by any chance know when the first Brownie was sold. That's when people started having fun with their cameras. I'm seen pictures of my mother in her graduation dress around 1924 standing on the front porch - can't remember if she graduated at 16 or 18. She was smiling and the picture must have been took with a Brownie. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
1846 Posts
Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2018 : 11:40:11 AM
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Sara as I read through your story of young Jennifer, I cannot help but wonder what stories have been forever lost over time. One of my kiddos the other day asked why we need to learn history (obviously not a huge fan at this point in time of that subject) and another piped up that it is so we can learn from it and not make the same mistakes. To which a third child chimed in that we still repeat the same history and make the same mistakes! The sad thing to me is that only certain parts of history are shred... there are two sides to every story and that includes in history!
If I could sit with any woman from the past, I would sit with my ancestors... the Amish on my mom's side and the Cherokee Indian on my dad's. One of the things I really want to learn right now is how to garden year round as that is one thing I'm desperately trying to learn, but honestly I just want to hear about their lives... what was their childhood like. Their beliefs? Their traditions? What hardships did they face and how did they overcome them? |
~ Shannon, Sister #5349
Farmgirl of the Month January 2016
http://hudson-everydayblessings.blogspot.com/ |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2018 : 11:58:44 AM
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| Shannon good to hear from you. In honor of your Cherokee ancestors you may want to plant the three sisters the way Indians did. Corn with pole beans growing up the stalk, and pumpkins or gourds growing at the bottom. I have always wanted to grow the three sisters but have always put it off to next year. Maybe I'll try again in 2019. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
1846 Posts
Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
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Posted - Dec 14 2018 : 06:16:39 AM
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| Sara - I have considered doing that, but am allergic to beans :'( My children love green beans, though, so I might try it... the hardest part will be denying myself them! Does anyone else have any food allergies that are incredibly hard to deny themselves of, though the consequences of eating them can be quite painful? My other one is dairy... oh how I miss dairy!!! |
~ Shannon, Sister #5349
Farmgirl of the Month January 2016
http://hudson-everydayblessings.blogspot.com/ |
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6078 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Dec 14 2018 : 07:24:57 AM
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Well that is very interesting Shannon, I agree that some history is not fun learn but it is interesting your history would be interesting to learn,
Green beans are my favorite I am glad I don’t have that allergy. I bet your family is keeping busy with Christmas plans,
Sara that
Three Sisters planting sound quite beautiful saves space too.
Well I enjoyed reading that.
Take care ladies and have a wonderful day!
Hugs
Darlene |
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 14 2018 : 08:19:45 AM
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Shannon -
So good to hear from you. I've never heard of anyone allergic to beans. If I am allergic to any foods I have not found them yet. My DIL is alllergic to all fish and coconut. And I have a friend that gets migraines if she eats chocolate or nuts - and I am so glad that isn't me!
Sara - If you plant the 3 sisters way do the vegs/fruits take on the tastes of the others? I know that can happen if you plant peppers near tomatoes. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 14 2018 : 09:06:57 AM
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Linda, I don't think so. Haven't read anything about the three sisters cross pollinating.
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FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
9531 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Dec 14 2018 : 12:18:38 PM
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I have allergies to chocolate and shrimp. I use to love shrimp but cannot have it. It affects my breathing. Chocolate breaks me out in hives but I do eat it sometimes. I can take something for the hives but now I just stay away from shrimp. The chocolate has been all my life the shrimp has just been the last 5 or 6 years.
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Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
Edited by - levisgrammy on Dec 14 2018 12:20:11 PM |
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Project Discussions: Winter Wonderland~December 2018 |
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Winter Wonderland~December 2018
