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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 29 2005 : 10:03:08 AM
I have been reading in other posts some dream plans about the farmgirls on this site meeting, in person, at the 2006 Farm Fair. It set my mind to thinking. We know each other here, our thoughts and plans, and lots of our feelings. Some of us having been posting over a year, but time does not really matter. Like the movie "You've Got Mail" with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, I wonder what it would be like to see you all and see your smiles and expressions after having read about you for so long.
I can tell you one thing. I would not care one fig if any of you had fancy clothes or manicures! But it would be a curious thing, wouldn't it?
The older I get, the more I love my girlfriends....and the less appearance matters. I am wondering if I can explain to my hubby that I want to travel across the entire country and meet folks that I talk to on the internet! But I really think would be great fun.
jpbluesky
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| Carol |
Posted - May 19 2006 : 4:51:14 PM
Hi girls. Go here for more information about this year's Farm Fair. http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/farm-fair.asp
Hope to see you at the fair!
Carol
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, red wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming 'WOO HOO, what a ride!'"
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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - May 19 2006 : 1:57:52 PM
It's being held the first weekend in July, I believe. It's an annual thing. I'd love to go "one of these years".... LOL
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
"Looking Toward the Son"---- http://sonflowergirl731.blogspot.com
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| dargaonfly1054 |
Posted - May 19 2006 : 06:53:26 AM
Is the fair an annual thing? And if it is, what time during the summer is it?
"We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk..." Thoreau |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 7:07:22 PM
It;s okay, Georgette - I do the exact same thing sometimes. Hope you can get to the fair at MJF!
Peace |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 3:48:55 PM
Farm Fair is July 1st and 2nd this year.
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| dargaonfly1054 |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 1:16:01 PM
OOPS, just looked at the date y'all were writing these and it was LAST YEAR!!!!!!!
"We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk..." Thoreau |
| dargaonfly1054 |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 1:14:58 PM
When is the farm fair? I'm going to be fairly near there the end of July-beginning of August?
"We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk..." Thoreau |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 09 2005 : 11:55:42 AM
Wouldn't that be fun?? I love that idea...your spot is saved. I think it will sleep 4 if we have any other So. Cal or Arizona or So. Utah or Nevada gals who want to meet up with us. I suppose I should wait until it gets here to be announcing how many spots I have..hee hee. Can't wait to get it. My mom should be delivering it next Friday..IF she can tow it here from Calif.
Jenny in Utah
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| sleepless reader |
Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 10:02:55 PM
Aunt Jenny,
Save me a spot in the tent trailer :) I'd be soooo willing to drive from So Cal up to you and share the costs from there.I can't tow on my little Subaru sedan.
Sharon |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 12:54:16 PM
I love that idea! and I agree about us probably needing to find a local campground to "camp" at with our trailers and the like. I am hoping to have my tent trailer by then.
Jenny in Utah
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| Eileen |
Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 10:44:30 AM
As for the aprons, We could all cross stitch Mary Janes FarmGirl Chapter Leader on the front of our gingham aprons. Or Mary Janes Farm Fan Club or something like that! HMMM?
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| Eileen |
Posted - Jul 08 2005 : 10:37:03 AM
We might all need to check in to Mary Jane before we all decide to arrive at her farm with trailers and motor homes. You will understand when you see the drive. Might have to book space in a local campground for those and drive up to the fair and festivities.
Unless she has a space on the pasture that she will designate for motorhome and trailer parking it would be difficult to park in her lane let alone turn around to go out.
Just a heads up for all of us.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 06 2005 : 12:51:34 PM
I thought it was bomb too. I still say bummed and my mom winces when she hears it still. I guess it could be worse!
We are getting a tent trailer soon...a family freind in Calif gave it to us and my mom is hopefully going to tow it out here for us in a couple weeks..needs a little work but maybe, just maybe I could use THAT! Anyone south of me that would need a ride from here on up is welcome to ride along next year ...I am PLANNING on the trip!!
Jenny in Utah
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jul 06 2005 : 12:17:52 PM
Michele - I always thought the young kids meant "the bomb" like one big exploding good thing! Another place on this site today, I saw the word "bummed" and wondered what our parents thought when we said that for the first time! :)
Farmer MacLeigh - the world has all the makings of a wonderful place if we all truly care about one another. I am glad you feel that here on this site!
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jul 06 2005 : 11:10:28 AM
Hey Clare -- I'm not much on camping either. I'm hoping to have my own Farmgirl travel trailer by next year. Then my daughter and I will be heading out to Farm Fair 2006. If not I will check into renting one too. It would be really cool if we could meet up somewhere and have a convoy of travel trailers, motorhomes, etc. Wouldn't that be a site pulling up the drive to MaryJane's farm!
Kay - Living in Beautiful Washington State
North Clark County Farmgirls and
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| Farmer Macleigh |
Posted - Jul 04 2005 : 3:24:44 PM
Dear JP, Aunt Jenny, Clare and all other kind ladies,
It does my heart good to see such kindness between people on this site. Sharing a common love not just of land but a true appreciation of others makes me glad.
Thank you all for welcoming me, too. Perhaps '06 will be easier to manage than we all think!
Best,
Macleigh
Hope sustains the farmer. -- Old Proverb |
| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Jul 04 2005 : 2:59:42 PM
YES, YES, YES, lets all really try to make it next year. What a hoot!I feel like I know some of you, I want to get to know others. It would be, as my 14 y/old says, "the baum". Michele
"she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands". Prov. 31:13 |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Jul 04 2005 : 10:59:29 AM
I would also be willing to pick up anybody at the Lewiston or Spokane airports if you come next year for Farm Fair. I went this year and you don't want to miss it. What fun! My friend Sandy and I went on Saturday. We did it all--the vendors, the walking tour(I could have spent the rest of the day in the hammock at the Plum Pit), and enjoyed the music while we ate our pita sandwiches(hummus for her and falafel for me) and strawberry shortcake. What a beautiful and relaxing day.
Now my story about meeting up with people from the internet:
Two years ago this August I drove to Portland, OR, to spend 2 days with 10 people I'd never met in person. I even roomed with one of them! We belong to the same internet quilt group(actually I belong to several internet quilt groups, but that's another story)and had decided to have a get-together of the people in the northwest. Two members from the Portland-Vanocuver area made the arrangements and we all met for the weekend in Portland. We laughed, shared, ate and shopped and it was like we'd known each other forever. We now get together for retreats every 6-7 months and will be having our fifth retreat this October at Long Beach. We vary the places so that the same people don't always have to travel so far--like me and my sister--we really live 'in the sticks.' It takes us an hour and a half to even get to a freeway! Nowdays we mostly sew and work on our own projects and there's not so much shopping=~) We have block exchanges, round robins, group projects going on all the time. Last summer they all came to us. We had our retreat in eastern WA because we planned the retreat around the outdoor quilt show at The Buggy Barn in Reardon. We've become such good friends and most of us wouldn't miss a retreat.
It was, and is, an amazing thing! I can see Farm Girl gatherings being the same way. Put your doubts and fears aside and I hope to see you there.
Marcia
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 02 2005 : 6:58:18 PM
I have a cute red gingham half apron that I can improve on ....add a bib...
Jenny in Utah
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 02 2005 : 4:04:56 PM
Well- I plan to be around next year so I tender this offer- Anyone that lets me know when you arrive in Spokane, Lewiston or even the Pullman airport....I can come pick up!
Ciao
Alee |
| mollymae |
Posted - Jul 02 2005 : 08:30:30 AM
I have 2 red gingham aprons, I actually collect vintage red aprons! My favorite one goes down past my knees (it's a half-apron) and it is full and flattering, and has red gingham and red tulips (which are my favorite flower) along the bottom...so cute!
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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| TheSoapMaven |
Posted - Jul 02 2005 : 02:28:25 AM
OH...this is going to be wonderful!!! Just wonderful!!! Think I can, I think I can, I think I can...get on a plane!!!!
Thanks for the compliments farmgirls! I have several aprons my granny and great granny made for me. You won't believe this but I made myself a red gingham apron 6 months ago...full coverage...I will take a picture later.
Love you gals already!
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Soulmate to Jerry for 30 years
Mom to Zach, Gesikah, Nathan, Hannah, Rachel and Benjamin
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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jul 01 2005 : 08:53:55 AM
Remember that movie "Where The Boys Are"??? This reminds me of that movie...tons of girls piling up in a motel room on spring break...only this should be called "Where the Farmgirls Are"
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
| atwell |
Posted - Jul 01 2005 : 08:28:53 AM
FARMGIRLS!!!! I too am planning to make the big gathering in 06 at MJF!!! Count me in on one of the rooms at the super 8...floor is fine for me!Put me in the no makeup/manicure-give -me-overalls-and -ponytail group.All I need is a hot shower. I will have to fly in however..very sure the ol truck wouldnt make it!!I think this is such a fabulous idea!! Get out of the way!!!!Theres a flock of Farmgirls coming!!!!!!!Maybe we should think about reserving room(s) in advance and maybe post the idea on the chatroom.see who is interested??? I do know when there are large quiltshows and/or conventions at the same place every year it is tough to get lodging sometimes way in advance...Im not sure how big this is so far but it looks like were growing in leaps and bounds!!What does anyone else think about this idea????.also... for anyone who wants to create their own vintage apron ...check out one of the large pattern makers...I think Simplicity...they have brought back some SWEET VINTAGE APRON patterns!!!CHARMING!!later ladies!!!!
susan a.k.a. schnoobie a.k.a tawanda.....
FatQuarterQuiltFarm
Long Arm Machine
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| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 30 2005 : 3:42:02 PM
Jenny, I love it! I'm going to make mine with vintage hankie pockets, and maybe a hankie border on the bottom (since I make hankie quilts, that's who I am!) I'm so excited about next year and I can't wait to see everyone!!!
Susan, what a precious picture of you! I just love it!
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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