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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 07:28:12 AM
What a great time I had! I got to meet April who is just a sweetie and Sunny who looks just like her name. I got to talk to Carol and MaryJane even though they were EXTREMELY busy finishing up the magazine. Alee came out to the farm. She's so sweet and such a good mommie. We had such a nice visit. Nora is just the cutest little girl and such a happy baby. Alee brought Skydog with her, too. She's such a sweet dog, loves attention and people and has the softest coat. She's a great family dog. And Alee's new car is sooo nice. She's so happy with it.
DD and I stayed in one of the cabins. It was so quiet and peaceful, I feel totally renewed and ready to go back to work, now. There's a sky light in the cabin and on the first night dd and I could see the stars while laying in bed.
Friday was cold and very windy. We went to the University and got all of the registration stuff done and the tour to the building where her major is. It was a long, long day of standing in line on concrete floors. I was so glad to get that done. I really like that school. It's pretty big but, the professors are caring and very willing to help their students like a small college does. They keep their classes small, too. I think dd will do well there.
I walked around the farm and got some pictures of the chickens and some other birds, cute little country signs, the sunrise and rabbits. There are rabbits everywhere! Every time I turned around was another rabbit or bunch of rabbits! MaryJane says they are a serious problem there; they even eat her hoses in the middle of the day!
Friday evening, after we got back to the Farm, we could hear the cows mooing down the road. DD went for a walk. While she was gone, I noticed the cows were quiet. It started snowing really hard and dd came back to the cabin. The cows were mooing again. I commented about how the cows were quiet when she was down there and she said that she was singing to them!
The wind continued all night but we were nice and toasty. The beds were so comfortable and made up so cute and homey. I so enjoyed my stay there away from tv, phones and general life noises. Just the wind and birds....
UPDATE: The pictures are now on my blog.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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| PlumCreekMama |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 4:51:29 PM
Lisa, they don't usually behave like that. I was taking pictures of other things and they didn't realize I was going to take a picture of them. If they had, they probably would have run up to me and put their paws all over me. I was just surprised at how much our dogs look alike. I don't know what Annie is, she just appeared one day, but Corky is half Border Collie and half lab, but she mostly looks like a border collie.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 11:04:40 AM
I'm glad you all enjoyed the pics. It was really nice to be able to put a face with the names of those I hadn't met yet. Everyone was so nice and made us feel right at home. We were very comfortable staying there.
It was so nice that Alee came out to see me. I've been wanting to hug her and Nora for such a long time. Nora is such a happy little girl. I told Alee that she's going to be a real beauty when she grows up. She has such a great smiley face!
Heather, your babies look so sweet and well behaved to pose for you like that. Aren't dogs great?
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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| bohemiangel |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 10:05:27 AM
Oh lisamarie, so glad you had a wonderful time!!! I envy you in a good way :-p Love the pics and your blog. xoxo
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| frannie |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 09:02:15 AM
i do enjoy hearing about little nora, but i dont usually post on your blog about it. it just brings back all those mom memories to hear your stories about her. she is a little cutie.
love
frannie in texas
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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 07:55:25 AM
Aww! Thanks Frannie! Nora sure makes it easy to be a good mom! Yesterday she konked her head and after crying a little she settled down with a juice cup and as soon as she drank as much juice as she wanted, she took a nice long nap. As soon as she woke up- she was right as rain!
Alee
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| frannie |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 06:50:22 AM
lisa, thanks so much for sharing your trip and pics with us. it looks so wonderful there.
and the pics of pretty allee and nora just made me smile. she seems like the sweetest of moms and you can see that in nora's little happy face.
you made my day! thanks for sharing.
love
frannie in texas
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| PlumCreekMama |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 05:55:26 AM
Nice pictures, Lisa! I love taking pictures of abandoned buildings too! I saw the post with your dogs, and I must say your 2 dogs look a lot like my 2 farm dogs!
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| Lainey |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 9:04:21 PM
Lisa, looks like you all had a great time. Thanks for sharing those photos. And to meet everyone there, I bet that was so cool.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 8:38:12 PM
loved all the photos .. thanks for sharing!! xo
hank worked (and played rugby) with a copule professors from the university .. i think they might have 'retired' by now though! we have moscow on our list of places to visit soon's all our children are settled with healthy bodies .. and that new baby is born! xo
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 8:07:44 PM
I am glad you enjoyed your stay. I think I have that same picture of a barn that you got. It is a wonderful place to be. I enjoyed my time there too. MB
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| mima |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 5:14:47 PM
Yikes!!! What is all that white stuff in the pictures???? I'm cold already!!LOL!!! Glad you had fun!!!
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 5:04:45 PM
Yay! Those are such lovely photos!!!! It sure looks CCCCoooooolddd out there still, though!
My my, what an adorable girl Alee is, and that baby, Nora, could NOT be any prettier!!!!
What a wonderful time, Lisa--glad you got to do something for you during all that college stuff :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| miss wilma |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 5:02:32 PM
Alee you are starving me to death
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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 4:47:59 PM
MMMM MJF Strawberries! She should freeze dry them and sell them on the main page! They are soooooo yummy!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| miss wilma |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 4:05:42 PM
Lisa now AINT that the most wonderful place in the world,there is just no way to really explain it I didnt see anything that I didnt love, I wanted to come right home and build every thing I saw there but the strawberries was the best of all.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 12:36:53 PM
Mima! MaryJane told me you were going to visit her. You're going to have the most wonderful time. Just keep in mind the cow noises!
Patricia, that is soooo funny. I actually thought about the possibility of wolves when I'd make a trip to the outhouse in the middle of the night. I didn't know if any were even around there. But we've had some nasty encounters with them here and so it was on my mind. But no problems. I was actually more worried about stepping on a bunny in the dark and going down on my butt in the snow! There are so many of them there.
It was such a peaceful, rejuvenating kind of experience. I'm looking forward to another trip someday. DD and I had a great time together.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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| CountryBorn |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 12:20:32 PM
Lisa, I am so glad you had such a nice time. I laughed my head off at the cow story. We have a lot of cows around us and that happened to me , I couldn't imagine what that sound was! Your daughter sounds just delightful. Singing to the cows, I loved it.
How nice you had this time together.
NJ
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 11:17:50 AM
You reminded me of an experience I had while staying at the farm a couple of years ago. Maryjane put me to bed in the Plum Pit and there I slept with no tent or walls or roof except the lace canopy on the bed. It was the most amazing experience to hear the nighttime animal sounds - the little slithering in the grasses, the bird calls, the howling of the coyote in the distance. Seeing the stars in the black sky. Extraordinary.
Until I was awakened abruptly by a horrible gutteral moaning that sounded like it was right next to me. I was terrified. What could it be? some hideous monster hiding under my bed? Was it going to eat me? I just huddled in my bed until it stopped. Finally, sleep. Then it began again, the most wretched, heart-wrending moans I ever heard.
And so it went on and off until morning.
When I found out what it was - the cow in the pasture next to the Plum pit. Who, Maryjane said, was in her monthly heat period. Well, I laughed my head off. ("Ohhh! I need a MAN! Right NOW! OH, woe is me!")
I still chuckle.
Patricia
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| mima |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 08:43:12 AM
How wonderful!!!!!!!! Yes pics please! I can not wait for my visit!!! Good for your daughter! Shes sounds like an amazing girl!!!
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 08:29:30 AM
Oh, dd has to download the pics as they are all on her camera. Hopefully, by tonight! I misspelled psychology, darn it!
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
My Website:
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 08:06:45 AM
I'm so jealous!! But, I'm glad you had such a good time. I second the pics request!
Yay for your DD for having her goals all set! What an exciting time for her.
Karin
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 07:52:31 AM
Frannie, It was such a great visit. DD will be double majoring in German and education with a minor in psycology. She wants to teach English in Germany for a while and then come back and teach German here. Then go back to school to get a masters in psycology while still teaching with the hope that the school she's working at will pay for the masters.
Alee, you're so sweet! You never know, we might make it over to MT someday and we'll just HAVE to drop in to say hi.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
My Website:
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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 07:37:57 AM
It was so fun meeting you and Felicia, Lisa!
Lisa was so kind! She made Nora and I some _ADORABLE_ aprons made from jeans, cotton material, and lace! If you haven't seen her aprons before, you should! They are so cute! I know I will treasure ours forever! She also gave me a beautiful bag she had made and yummy applebutter. How kind was that?!
I wish our visit could have been longer, but I am sure we will meet again another time!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Please come visit Nora and me on our new blog:
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 07:32:08 AM
lisa .. what a lovely visit and such sweet memories. how grande that you got to meet sweet alee and all the farmgurlz!! i adore that your daughter was serenading the cows! what will she be studying at the university?
wanna' see pics!! xo
True Friends * Frannie
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