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Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 11:11:55 PM
~~yet done, would you most like to do?
Oh My...I have a few things (I usually do!) ....I will post ONE after I think which is the most important one to me! I hope this hasn't been one that has already been done..if so kindly let me know!!
Until Later,
Audrey
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| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 06:32:48 AM
I would just like to finish the projects around the farm that have been started, and left in the middle of progress due to rain, lack of supplies, hay needing to be cut, animals wanting attention, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to just wake up one morning and realize just HALF the unfinished projects were completed??? AHHHHHHHHH!!!! It's a good thing I love living on a farm!
from the hearts of paradise... |
| neighsayer |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 05:21:06 AM
Hey Audrey: I've done the white water rafting in Taos. Loved it. My guide wasn't too hard on the eyes either! ;) ha ha.Sure didn't want to fall out of that raft though!
Thank God I live in the country! |
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Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 11:45:26 PM
Oh Anna......If you'd like to try White Water Rafting you need to try the Waters around Taos, New Mexico! They have wonderful White Water Rafting trips that they take groups on! My husband and son have gone and What Fun They Had!!!
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
| Annab |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 03:38:31 AM
I'd like to go back to Australia
witness the Tour deFrance with my husband
Thought Mardi Gras might be fun but heard how dirty and gross everyone gets. Was able to see the tail end of all the Sturgis Bike Rally goings on this summer. That wasn't on my list, but may take the place of New Orleans
Would like to white water raft
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Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 11:44:19 PM
Denise....Where do you live in New Jersey? My husband is from Southern New Jersey, so I was just wondering....
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
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Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 11:09:18 PM
Oh Erin.....I just noticed you said you know you'll like teaching. Are you just starting out as a new teacher? Going to school? What are you majoring in? I retired from teaching about a year and 1/2 ago. One really nice thing (besides working with the kids) is summers off. You can pursue your dreams and give writing ago. One never knows where things will lead us! Please do fill us in on what your teaching goals are.
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 11:07:58 PM
My youngest daughter just started taking violin lessons at school (she is in middle school now..6th grade) and I DO have my grandpa's fiddle..it needs some restoration though. I plan to get it fixed up when I can afford it and take lessons. Right now with 3 kids playing piano, one flute, one trumpet and one violin (there are four kids..the girls play two things) I can't afford to take lessons myself. It would be fun to learn to play piano too. I figure my turn will come so I will get the fiddle at least fixed and ready for that time. DAughter has her own violin now 3/4 size..she is very small...mine is mine. There WAS a gal here teaching fiddle lessons when we first moved here and I was so tempted to do it and waited and now she has moved away..darn. But I will be asking around for sure.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| countrygal56 |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 6:09:23 PM
You know, we all are really talented farmgirls! Everyone of us have something that is very special, even if it is something we hope to do. Farmgirls whether on a farm or a Farmgirl at heart are special people. What a great group! I love this forum!
Barb |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 4:00:00 PM
Belle,
you're right about the style, but most people who play fiddle hold it a bit differently than the violin
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
"Take a lesson from the teakettle, though up to its
neck in hot water...it sings!"
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 2:58:49 PM
Denise, I think it is the style of music that is played. My grandpa was a fiddle player. He played at house dances back around 1920 or so. My Mom played the violin in the high school and college orchestra. It was the same violin/fiddle. |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 1:17:30 PM
I would love to own my own fabric shop. Have talked about it with dh but have never been brave enough nor had the capital to start.
Jenny,
You should find a teacher and get started. My son plays the violin. We asked his teacher what the difference was between violin and fiddle. She said it's just in the way it's held.
thought that was interesting because I always thought one was smaller than the other or something like that.
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
"Take a lesson from the teakettle, though up to its
neck in hot water...it sings!"
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Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 11:42:57 AM
Oh Laura!....I really enjoy watching Rodeo at our State Fair!! (which started here last week)......I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that this is your year!!!
Bonne....I'm with ya! I have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, smart, handsome son (Ha!Ha! like every mother's son!!!)....and I can't wait till he finds just the right wonderful, wonderful, wonderful woman!!!
Annika....what kind of books do you dream of publishing?
Until Later,
Audrey
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Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 11:12:23 AM
....Girls, I am really enjoying hearing all that everyone still would like to do. I Do So hope All Of Us will try to find the time in our lives to do them! and I know I still haven't actually listed something for me, although listening to many of your "hopes" has made me realize even More things that I would Definately be interested in Still Doing!!! I lived in NY for several years of my life and have visited there NUMEROUS times over the years, I've been to LOTS of Broadway Plays........ but I have never been to(and this was something I even wanted to do when I was a little girl!!!)........
~~~~~~I would like to go to see the Holiday Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall!!! It has been a NY Legend and I Sooooo enjoy live theatre (acted in a few plays in my time)and continue to do dancing and singing Around my Home!! I'm my Best Audience!!!
Until Later,
Audrey
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| Annika |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 07:36:11 AM
To become a published writer is my biggest dream still
Annika
Farmgirl sister #13
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| bbteacher |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 07:24:56 AM
Audrey,
I'd love to see my two boys happily and successfully married to women who will help them grow into the men they're suppose to be! O.K. now that I've been "lofty," I'd loveeeeeeee to learn to play the banjo. I love bluegrass music and secretly wish it could be me playing those banjo solos!
Bonnie
Farmgirl #333 |
| horse |
Posted - Sep 07 2008 : 06:33:25 AM
I guess mine is alittle different than everyone elses. I want to qualify for the Nationals Final Rodeo. I have been rodeoing all my life and that's the one thing I have always wanted to do. Surely after 37 years my day will come. Yes, I ran in my first rodeo at the tendar age of 3. I've made it to the World but never the NFR's.
Laura
www.2lmzfarms.blogspot.com |
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Posted - Sep 06 2008 : 11:09:34 PM
Bless you Barbara for the devoted work you do. I remember when my parents, each in their time, needed extra care in their home....neither of them would consent to moving in with any of us "kids". It was so difficult to get special nursing care....things worked out, but I remember doing lots of running back and forth many times a day to their home (I would do it over again in a heart beat for my wonderful parents)but ............. it was very hard to find responsible caring health-care people here to fill a large portion of any day. You are indeed one of the people that are "heaven sent"!
I spent many years as an Art Educator, so I taught lots of crafts to kids and my personal interests have changed over the years ....I spent a lot of time, at one time, on ceramics (hand building, my favorite)and Jewelry making. Now I have gravitated and evolved into really spending most of my "Hobby" time with sewing. I sew toys for little ones (including dollies)....Aprons!.....pin cushions.....things made from old sweaters......tooth fairy pillows....tote bags.....purses, etc...I also enjoy embellishing things with embroidery!....... and in the winter I enjoy knitting baby things (baby afghans, hats, buntings, booties). I also like to make all kinds of knitted scarfs...shawls...panchos, especially panchos for little ones!..... I am trying to make some time to do some scrapbooking!!! I guess I am the type of person who gets bored just doing one thing!!! Ha!
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
| countrygal56 |
Posted - Sep 06 2008 : 6:23:03 PM
Hi Audrey! I do work fulltime as a nurse. I do have a great job, though. I work with two ladies who have special needs. Plus I have an assistant who works with me. We take care of the ladies in their own home. One needs total care, and the other lady needs just assistance. I work Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. I love to work on crafts, especially wreaths, jewelry, wood work with a scroll saw and painting landscapes. I also enjoy knitting.
What kind of crafts do you enjoy, Audrey?
Barb |
| ErinW |
Posted - Sep 06 2008 : 2:29:32 PM
Betty Jo,
If you start in New Zealand, you might want to check out a car fair before you look into renting. They have them weekly in Aukland, I think, and usually buying a vehicle there and then selling it again when you go is cheaper than rentinig. I can't guarantee they have bikes, but it might be worth checking.
As for me, I'd like to support myself on my writing and the work of my hands, instead of being chained to a career. I know I'll like teaching, but still... I can dream.
Erin |
| bboopster |
Posted - Sep 06 2008 : 10:46:51 AM
Yes, I do think I will return to Australia and New Zealand. I dropped the bomb on my DH 3 weeks ago. We are planning in 2018 ( doesn't that sound like a long way off) to take a 3-4 week trip. We would love to ship our bike but I think renting will be better on the budget. Thought if we saved for it for the next 10 years we should maybe have enough. Both my Dh and I ride our vintage Endros every chance we get. This fall we are building a motocross track in our yard. With grandbabiies on their way our motto is "From out of the womb to motocross" We have a motocross of everysize. Can't wait to ride with the grandbabies. "Nana's Motorcycle Gang" Looking to the future is so much fun I have to remind myself to live in today sometimes. 
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Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
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Posted - Sep 06 2008 : 10:24:30 AM
Jenny that reminds me of the line in a wonderful song that I soooo loved, from a singer I soooooo admired....
"Well I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle.
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle;"
John Denver was a Big Fav or mine! My mother was a gifted violin player when she was young women and played in a womens symphony ...I guess the violin is a little related to the fiddle? She gave my sister and brother violin lessons when they were young and neither of them kept it up for long, so when it came to me (the youngest)...she decided we ought to go in a different direction and gave me Tap Dancing Lessons!! Actually, I would have liked the violin I think!!....
Jenny I really think playing the fiddle would be such FUN!!!! Do you know some place you could take lessons? I would be tempted to join you if you lived closer!!!
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
| fionalovesshrek |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 9:35:06 PM
Audrey, I haven't been on a horse in 23 years, but it was sort of natural for me then and I'd like to think it'd be so easy even now.
Maybe one day...I'm not far from the coast so I've got that going for me...which is nice....
P~
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 9:15:28 PM
I would love to learn to play the fiddle.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 8:43:30 PM
Oh My Betty Jo that sounds exciting! My Hubby used to ride a Motorcycle in Motocross races (in his youth)for fun!!!! He would love the thought of that! I even had a little Red Honda Trail 90 that I rode once in a while! Ha! I used to be more of a risk taker than I am now! Do you think you might do it one day?
Heather...I do hope you will get to do just that one day...maybe after Hubby gets back!! Sounds like a lovely Get-Away!
Barbara do you work full time as a nurse? What type of crafts do you like to do?
Paige..what a lovely thought! Do you raise horses or ride?
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
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Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 8:18:15 PM
Marcelina..I love your name! Were you named after someone in your family? I have several friends who have written books...I think it is wonderful to have the discipline to write a novel! I have thought of writing a childrens book but haven't even done a first draft! Is the story based on something in your life?
Karen you will have to come to Albuquerque in October for the International Balloon Fiesta! They have many companys that you can arrange to take a ride or if you don't actually want to really go up to high they also have Tethered rides (where the Balloon is attached to a very very long rope). Have you ever come to Albuq for the Fiesta?
Until Later,
Audrey
~ Side by side or miles apart....dear friends are always close to the heart ~ |
