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| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jun 25 2009 : 11:12:27 AM
Have you ever wondered how people would respond if instead of filming extremely wealthy "housewives" in places like NYC, Orange County, Atlanta, NJ, etc. a show was actually filmed on what actual housewives (more specifically farmgirls) do?
I was thinking about this over the weekend. One day last week is a perfect example. My husband went to the hospital to visit his mother in the evening freeing me up from having to cook supper. So when I got home from working 8 hours at the office I filled the bed of my truck with old, semi composted hay using a pitchfork. Then I filled the water containers, loaded up the little dogs and drove down into the pasture to my garden. I proceeded to transplant about 50 green bean plants, add an extra layer of mulch to the garden (using the pitchfork once again)and water it. When all that was done I came back up to the house and cooked and canned 8 pints of strawberry rhubarb jam. By the time I got done it was 10:30 at night, DH came home and I went to bed. Now, in my personal opinion, those are the kinds of things that Real Housewives actually do.
Just a thought. Any one else out there have an opinion on this? My brain is in overdrive most of the time so I come up with some kind of weird thoughts. 
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 07 2009 : 06:21:52 AM
I wish ya'll could have been filming my last 2 days. Goats in the garden, then the cows walking over the fence and on down the road, then following me back home. That was cute. Then me and my friend Scott pulling up the honeysuckle-laden fence and tieing it onto t-posts. Now with the cows out back with the goats, that's a whole other segment. Trying to get goats through the gate to the milk room without cows coming in too. Oh my. Life on a farm with not much help. I sure miss my SIL. He's a great help around here.
When do we start filming?
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| countrykatgirly |
Posted - Jul 07 2009 : 04:59:12 AM
That would be awesome. For those of us who can't afford cable, please put it on DVD...
**Farmgirl Sister #622**
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
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| Diane B Carter |
Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 2:02:50 PM
I have to agree with Kristin, I think it would be a great show. When ever someone would say something stupid about a farmer, I would always reply One thing God did not give us was a stupid farmer. Then I would say do you how how to milk a cow? and thats the easy part. They need to know all about the amimals, crops, land, taking care of a farm is a lot of work, and requires a smart, loving,good person to make it successful. I personally have never met a stupid a farmer. I don't think they exsist.. But one time I would admit to surfing off a cows tail in my bare feet in a rain storm. Usually we would get the horses ready and bring in the cows for milking but some times we would grab one cows tail and they would run toward the barns and we would pray we did't fall. That was pretty stupid but I was about 10.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 1:06:41 PM
This is too cute, ya'll! I love it already. I wanna be in it, too! We could have episodes of breeding season, live births of all kinds of animals, butchering days, plowing, planting, harvesting. I would not be bored at all. I love shows like this. We could go around the country filming each family, kind of like Tye Pennington when they build houses. Spend a week on each place. You just never know from one day to the next what will happen on your place. Every day is different here, for sure. One day may be spent chasing bad goats all over trying to get them back in where they're supposed to be, the next it might be cows.
Good idea.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 10:01:50 AM
You know, Mary Jane has branced out in all kinds of markets. And very successfully, I might ad..maybe we could get her to start her own MJTV....? lol
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| bohemiangel |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 12:26:22 PM
I thought of that too!!! Talk about REAL in all ways:) LOVE YOU GIRLS!
**~~Farmgirl Sister #60~~**
"... to thine ownself be true."
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| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 12:29:46 PM
I honestly do believe that I would pop a batch of popcorn and curl up on my sofa and unplug the phone and tune out the rest of the family to watch an episode of The Real Housewives of Cornfield County!
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| 4HMom |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 07:46:48 AM
Oh my gosh Lisa! I can relate to the cat bringing things in the cat door...it's amazing how fast a flying squirrel can knock down curtains!
I think a MaryJane show would be awesome! Can you just imagine what fun that would be? Great idea.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| KansasCowgirrrl |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 06:55:08 AM
You have to admit that most of us have those "moments" that can be pretty entertaining. For instance, my kids enjoy watching me ride my high strung horse who often shies from butterflies, large rocks and stumps but loud vehicles, farm equipment and bicycles don't phase him. When he recently (and unexpectedly) tried to jump an 10-foot wide swamp on the trail and my hiney was probably a foot or more out of the saddle before I came down hard on the swells (either side of the saddle horn). I didn't fall off but I am sure I could have won AFV! It was a month ago and I STILL have bruises! Or how about the cat bringing giant bullfrogs, snakes and birds through the cat door at night and turning them loose in the house? Then me and the kids trying to catch and release everything!
I think MaryJane doing a Rachel Ray type show would be a big hit. And she could have clips of her farmgirls in their element. That's a show I would always watch!
Cowgirrrl Lisa, Farmgirl #596
A cowgirl is a woman with guts and a horse |
| NikkiBeaumont |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 06:51:44 AM
Y'all are all cracking me up! I would love to see a show like this! Y'all film it and post it on youtube and let us know. We will watch it, rate it, and bump it up to worldwide prominence! The Real Housewives of Cornfield County has a nice ring to it, Dawn!
Farmgirl Sister #554
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 06:21:52 AM
We could even spoof it a bit...
Remember Hee Haw? took place in Cornfield County?
How about "The Real Housewives of Cornfield County"
Dawn #279
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 06:20:45 AM
This is totally my new project when I get home from BBB... I'm gonna dust of the camcorder, and go to town. It'll take me a year to get it all together, since I'd need to start seed in spring, plow, disk, plant, hoe, weed, weed, can, freeze, feed animals, brood chicks, see kids, love hubsters, help family, make christmas gifts, have pumpkin sales, farm markets...etc....
Dawn #279
MJ's Heirloom Mavens-QMD
http://harvestthyme.blogspot.com
~the only thing for certain, is uncertainty~ |
| 4HMom |
Posted - Jun 28 2009 : 6:10:13 PM
Kelley,
I LOVE how your pool sounds! It wouild work for me. I agree that those "housewives" must lead very boring lives...I too would love to see Ellen take a shot at them :)
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| farmmommy |
Posted - Jun 28 2009 : 6:00:19 PM
I think it would be awesome, too!! I can't even stand to watch the reality shows anymore (never really watched them anyways) Jon & Kate plus 8 was enough to make me want to barf...now look at what the kids are having to go through with the divorce being talked about all across america?! Kate made me laugh out loud and say "get over yourself!!""" on the episode where alexis had diahrhea during nap time and got it all over her crib....Kate freaked out and I mean FREAKED OUT and kept saying "I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do!!! Jon is the one who gives the babies their baths!! I don't know what to do...this messes up my whole schedule!!!!!"
Give me a break!!!! Woman (Kate) has 8 kids....grow up and act like a mother already!!!! Now...I must admit, I myself do not have 8 children.....but then again...Kate doesn't have 2 labs that knock everything over just by wagging their tails...1 cat that just had 7 kittens....6 chickens, 2 ducks, a baby racoon to nurse 5 times a day.....I bet she also doesn't even think about gardening, much less starting from seed, weeding, watering, battling the bugs, mowing grass, did I mention pulling weeds???....I mean, seriously...I could go on and on!!!!
No offense against her....I am simply using her as an example....don't even get me started on all the housewives shows.....who really lives like those people??? I would be so bored!!!!
I think that the Ellen show would be a great place to try and show some video clips....and ya'll know that Ellen would just LOVE making fun of those papmpered women!!!! I could just see it now, all the jokes Ellen would make about....well actually....both sides!!!! LMAO!!!!
I just think it would be neat for other people out there to see that just because you live in a rural area, have land and animals and a garden, doesn't mean that you are a "hick" with little or no education! Could you imagine some peoples reaction to our swimming pool?? Its a 3 ft deep, 10 ft across galvanized cattle trough with a fisher price slide that came off of a swing set bolted to the deck and slides right into the pool, cynder block for a step....and yep, there is even a half circle cut out of the deck that the "pool" bumps into, because "yes" I'm a farmgirl.....and it's a "farmgirl" design.....lol!!! But hey....when it hot...anything will do!!!! |
| Diane B Carter |
Posted - Jun 28 2009 : 4:33:42 PM
I don't know if the tv could keep up with the average farmgirl. But I bet it would be a good show.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
dianebcarterhotmailcom.blogspot.com |
| ranchmama |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 08:45:50 AM
Too wierd, I was just hinking of that PBS show the other day. We watched it too and thought the MT one was more realistic and the TX one, wasn't as good. I remember thinking at the time, "I could do that!" But yesterday I was thinking the cooking bit would be hard, lol
Most days are pretty quite around here. We don't have chickens and goats to feed and fixing fence or checking water tanks isn't that glamraous. Same with shuttling the guys to the hay fields and tractors and trying tho keep 3 kids from killing each other in the truck while we wait around. Spring and fall gathers would be fun, but the camera crew would probly get lost. Winter feeding would get old to watch after the first day, or the crew would freeze up while they filmed me chopping ice. Plus I don't look too good with frozen snot and ice drops hanging off my face! LMAO
But I would be interested in seeing what you all do. I guess we would be the only ones watching! hee hee
Elise
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
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| 4HMom |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 08:40:56 AM
I don't remember the horse...the part that I remembered was the snowstorm in June that threw them all for a loop! That, and having to butcher their own chickens for food...I only saw parts of the one in Montana and didn't catch any of the other ones. How did the folks in TX fare?
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| peapicker |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:30:46 PM
Kelly, that was the show I was talking about. They did one on Texas too and it wasn't really very true. I watched the one from Montana and thought it was really interesting to see the changes in people and that most of them missed it when they left. Wasn't that the one the young girl got to buy her horse she had on the show in real life. |
| 4HMom |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:20:53 PM
I remember the PBS show about families that had to live on the plains here in Montana with "pioneer" stuff. The catch was that real Montana families couldn't apply to "play" because it wasn't much different than what many of us do anyway. I think much of America would find a Farmgirl Show hard to believe...they would think it was staged instead of real :)
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| peapicker |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 11:39:55 AM
I don't know Teresa.......if you serve up some good roadkill and you might get some of the survivor enthusiest on board. |
| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 10:31:31 AM
A week at my place, with the blood ( literaly), sweat ( buckets this time of the year), tears ( a failed crop, a stillborn lamb), would probally not go over with the average TV addict, not even a reality show addict. It would be too real.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 08:13:25 AM
Sounds like a great idea. We have all the stuff to make it a good show. Violence, killing our food, and nudeity, re: my post "I'm necked under my dress." But don't know how many people would be interested in us keeping track of how much we spend for groceries, or how to clean house, laundry, self without using Tide.
I may just load up the video camera, charge up the batteries and have Ole Ron film me cutting herbs, watering the tomaotes, wiping sweat with my shirt tail. Oh, I have a good one, Cleaning out the hen house! |
| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 07:45:31 AM
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Originally posted by CherryMeDarlin
First of all, a warm welcome to you, Sarah! I think you're on to a grand idea! If a show can be created and aired about Redneck weddings, why not farmgirls?! CMT might just be the place to showcase it!
Second, Debbie...BAHAHAHAHAHAH!! I burst out laughing over that one!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy
Thanks for the welcome, Cherry! I'm soooo glad to be here in a forum amongst like-minded women.
The chief source of failure and unhapiness is trading what you want the most for what you want at the moment. |
| peapicker |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 06:15:26 AM
I agree with Teresa Sue. I think it could be a great show, but hollywood would really mess it up. They like to portray normal, everyday people as stupid compared to their inteligence. PBS did some shows with people living for a few months in historical settings and I think people really liked those shows. I think the more of the shows they did , the more off track of reality thay became though. |
| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 06:02:01 AM
No, the media did the redneck wedding thing because the only way they can picture "rural" people is in a bad way. They perpetuate the idiot local yokel, married to their first cousin, who doesn't have sense to come in out of the rain image.
But, Debbie, you gave me a good laugh, hahaha, yep, that's real life, get yer gun! LOL
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
Planting Zone 4
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
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