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| LouisvilleMom |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 12:49:50 PM
My name is Kathryn and currently I reside in Louisville, KY with my husband of 12 years and four sons ages 3, 6, 8 and 10. We don't live on a farm and barely have a lot (new builders love to cram the houses in). We are hoping to buy several acres next year so the boys will have room to romp. We are also kicking around the idea of moving to Texas as most of our family lives in Oklahoma and we want to be close but not too close. 
I love things that have history and age. New things just don't have a personality. My husband is just the opposite although he is changing.
We are hoping to have solar and possibly a wind turbine in TX. Our current green project is switching over to veggie biodiesel. We have built quite the still in the garage and one of our neighbors asked us if we were running a moonshine distillery (this is KY!) or building a rocket! 
I have a subscription to MJF after having stalked it at Barnes and Noble for awhile. I just inhaled the Farmgirl book and need another now.
Hope to see everyone around! |
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 6:34:04 PM
Welcome Kathryn from the pacific NW. My DH loves new stuff too. I prefer flagstone, he concrete. I prefer lots of different plants and plantings, he likes lawn(bleck)with nothing to trim around,LOL
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| soapmommy60543 |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 5:32:50 PM
Welcome Kathryn- I'm new, too. I know you don't have a large lot, but a book I read turned me into a gardener (we live on 1/2 acre, and most of it is taken up by either house or trees and the best backyard with the softest green grass EVER!). It's called All New Square Foot Gardening. I have a 9yo boy myself, and he is my future farmer. It gave him such a great sense of accomplishment to dig up potatoes that he had planted himself in the spring. Oh you should have seen how excited he was when plant after plant turned up big potatoes! Oh the JOY! Anyway, it might be a little taste of farm until you can get where you want to be, and the skills you pick up will help you when you get there.
Blessings to you and all of your boys!
Ann |
| handyam |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 11:44:27 AM
Welcome Kathryn from another Kentucky girl. I am about 100 south of Louisville in Green Co. (Ms. Frannie's territory!!!)
My husband (of 39+ years) have always loved the "old". We redid an old farmhouse (should have dozed it down!!) and have collected antique furniture all these years. We live on his grandparents farm, and would like to pass it down someday, but none of our 3 daughters seems interested. Maybe a grandchild will take an interest in keeping the place going and in the family. I do not like to see farms sold off and broken up into plots.
Hope you get to where you want to go--nothing like being happy with your surroundings.
www.adasadorableaprons.blogspot.com
This is the day that the Lord has made. |
| steph0264 |
Posted - Sep 18 2008 : 4:07:44 PM
Welcome Kathryn! I am new to the site as well!
Steph
For what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
-The book of Micah, chapter 6, verse 8 |
| katmom |
Posted - Sep 17 2008 : 9:06:47 PM
Welcome, Kathryn
I am very much interested in the Turbines as an off the grid alternative to being "tethered" to the power companies....I see that Texas is #1 in Turbine/solar use and Calif is #2 & Washington#3.
So keep us posted on what you plan to do.
Oh & have fun w/your Bio-diesal "stil" lol!
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
mjf#72
Sisters on the Fly#472
www.katmom4.blogspot.com
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| Kris Sherrill |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 7:42:47 PM
Hello Kathryn, that's my very favorite name. What a family you have. Goodness, I bet your busy.
I'm with you on the old stuff. I always said that's why I married my husband! He's 10 years older. But ya can't find good new stuff anymore. Especially houses. They seem to be thrown together in just a few weeks anymore. Ours was built the year my hubby was born, '48. It's a stone house and the man who built it did not intend for it to fall down .
Welcome and good luck with your farm hunting!
Kris
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 12:20:46 AM
Hi Kathryn and welcome to the forum! It's very nice to meet you. I've visited your area twice in the past several years and it's such a beautiful area. |
| Forrester Farm |
Posted - Sep 13 2008 : 8:18:07 PM
Welcome Kathryn,
I live in MI, but if our house sells, we will be relocating to Louisville (possibly Oldham County). I used to live in Tulsa, OK (for college), and my sister in law lives in Dallas. How funny is that -- based on where you lived, live and hope to live!
This is a fun site with alot of great farm chicks - on land or in heart.
Ann
Forrester Farm
http://picasaweb.google.com/FORRESTERFARM/FORRESTERFARMWEDDINGS |
| Carol Sue |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 10:56:21 PM
Hi Kathryn,
So glad that you are here and having some fun meeting new gals.
Welcome welcome welcome,
Carol Sue
listening to the quiet moments
Farmgirl #39
www.Quitemoments.blogspot.com |
| homemom |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 1:10:53 PM
Welcom, Kathryn!!
I am also new here.
My husband likes new things while I like everything that is old. He kids that we will one day have a house where one side is Little House on the Prarie and the other is high tech.
I don't live on a farm yet either but it is my dream to some day live in the country.
Blessings,
Ruth
Living the farm life in my heart.
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Ruth
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| electricdunce |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 11:20:19 AM
Welcome aboard!
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
http://moodranch.blogspot.com
http://domesticnonsense.etsy.com |
| berryhill |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 9:20:59 PM
Welcome Kathryn!
Linda |
| melanie47601 |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 2:26:25 PM
Hey Kathryn! It's so nice to meet you!
I just caught a thing on tv the other day about how to make the bio-diesel fuel.
It was on this show my guy likes to watch.
They usually make big mud trucks, but that day they dedicated the show to bio-diesel.
I'm really not a car nut but that was really interesting and they made it look so easy.
Melanie
~blog~ http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/ ~shop~ http://www.brokenin.ecrater.com/ |
| Alee |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 12:04:13 PM
Welcome to the forum, Kathryn!
My husband likes everything new, shiny, and modern! So we have a bit of a mish mash in our house. Is that how yours is too?
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 09:27:59 AM
Welcome Kathyrn and have fun!!! (((HUGS)))
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 08:13:04 AM
kathryn ... i got your e-mail about wanting to come to our fun Kentucky Gurlfrenz Gathering .. i notice you haven't posted since August .. hope all is well!!! if you are jus more of a 'reader' .. and see this .. please e-mail me. xo, frannie
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
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treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| 82kygal |
Posted - Aug 21 2008 : 05:15:00 AM
Welcome Kathryn. I'm from Somerset. So if you ever get down this way look me up. There are a lot of Kentucky women here on the forum. Glad to see you on board. Have fun.
Laura
With God, all things are possible. (Mark 10:27)
What ever you are, be a good one. (Abe Lincoln) |
| Lainey |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 8:18:18 PM
Welcome Kathryn from another Kentucky farmgirl. I'm from Waco, not too far from Richmond. Nice to meet you here!
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/ |
| LouisvilleMom |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 8:10:39 PM
We were looking at Northern Dallas (not really in Dallas). We really like Rockwall because the schools are good and there is still land instead of tiny lots. I grew up in Oklahoma City and swore I would never live in that area again because of the heat. Kids miss their family though. |
| Auntie Brenda |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 4:25:55 PM
Hi Kathryn,
Welcome from Texas! Happy you are here. Where in Texas are you considering moving too? I live in the Texas Hill Country and it is a wonderful place to live! We lived in Owensboro, KY 30 years ago. My husband was in the Coast Guard and had to go up river to Louisville all the time. Nice part of the country.
Brenda
Farmgirl Sister #292 |
| lilyblossom |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 3:46:49 PM
Hi Kathryn, Welcome to the group.
Donna...true blue KY farmgirl, farmgirl #86 |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 3:04:18 PM
Welcome Kathryn:
You'll love it here. I'll look forward to reading your postings.
Marly |
| bushelnpeck |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 2:45:19 PM
Hello Kathryn, Glad you found this place, it is so fun here, the gals are all great and I am excited to get to know you....Debbie
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all
Emily Dickenson |
| pasofino |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 1:34:46 PM
I'm new from the Adirondack mtns...I am totally off the grid, and run a horse stable....we use solar and are now setting up a wind mill to compensate the for the bad weather (we hope) with the brutal winters we have up here, we heat with wood stoves and it couldn't be toastier...I would not have it any other way....
happy trails |
| karla kay |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 1:19:59 PM
Welcome Kathryn! You will love this site. I am new here as well, and I love it. Enjoy!!
Karla |
