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| HollerGirl56 |
Posted - Jul 01 2018 : 05:48:17 AM
I notice so many of you live in towns and seem to believe that farm life is fun. Children---it works your butt off and you can't set down until dark in the summer. Work, work and more work! And dear sweet Winnie how I would hate a wood cook stove. My grandparents hated doing that---so hot in the summr. I do enjoy my 1940's range though. Being a farmgirl at heart is so much easier than being a real one. It is just plain hard and no time for fun. Any thoughts
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Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.===Sherrilyn Kenyon |
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| HollerGirl56 |
Posted - Jul 02 2018 : 10:34:14 PM
Nancy---my grandparents are why I am out this 0ld holler farm. I grew up around them at their old farmhouse after they moved out of here and I learned a love of the land from them. My family were the first settlers here in the early 1800's---so farming is in my blood for sure. Can't say I am good at it---my grandfather would laugh me up out of here. He married in 1920 and raised three kids all on farm income and managed to save a little money. This is just 172 acres and is rough land. I don't know how he did it. Sometimes I feel like giving up here but I know I never will. I am too big an old farmgirl hillbilly to be defeated. LOL And yes I can walk for two miles down the holler by the creek and not see a house. The dogs love it and it is a good life.
Old Age Ain't No Place For Sissies!------Bette Davis |
| Tumbleweed |
Posted - Jul 02 2018 : 3:15:02 PM
Barabara, Hi,
I do see your point. Farming is hard work and taking on farm life should be well thought out. There are somethings to coinsider though. Firstly, how big a farm? Hubby and I want land to grow our own food and to walk our dogs. We don't need a 1000 acre ranch to do that but a few acres is good for us. Secondly, many of us are retired or retiring and still have a lot of vim and vigor. Me personally I am like a border collie. I need things to keep me busy or I'll get myself into trouble and I don't want to watch the Telly all day. Thirdly, many of us grew up in the burbs but visited grandparents on farms where our parents grew up. Getting a taste of a simple slow paced life helping Granny weed her garden, making fresh biscuits and chasing lightening bugs at night.... Well that fever doesn't really ever go away.
I think your post is very thoughtful and caring. Thank you for posting it. We, I mean me can dream about it and plan for it but reality now and then needs the stage.
TW
The fun begins where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein |
| HollerGirl56 |
Posted - Jul 02 2018 : 07:34:41 AM
I so agree---my husband works retail and it is so hard. He hates it and so looks forward to retiring in three years, and I do have a little odd job one day a week---cleaning for a spoiled mamas boy friend and that makes me so tired---I need to put that energy into this place---it is a big place to keep up. And yes I agree--- I am more tired when I go somewhere than if I work all day here. I love to stay here and work. I am happy I can stay home and take care of things---there just ain't no pay or praise for it. God bless you and keep on keepin on. You're right on!
Old Age Ain't No Place For Sissies!------Bette Davis |
| hoosiercountry |
Posted - Jul 01 2018 : 6:12:27 PM
Yes, farming is hard work, but so is working in factory, food service, teaching, sales, nursing, trucking, lawn maintenance, and the list goes on. I have lived city life, working full time nursing at the hospital then, coming home still having to fix dinner, do dishes, cleaning, getting little odd jobs done before I could sit down to relax maybe 8 p.m. if I was lucky. That is the way it is for most working women. As for me no matter how hard the work is I prefer farm life, and I would rather die from fixing fence than relaxing in a chair watching T.V. Hugs Karla
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