| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Artsy Chic |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 08:37:40 AM
Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to this site. I'm a city farm girl,(wish I had 20 acres and could be a real farm girl) I want to have some backyard chickens next spring. I have a large yard that I'm slowly filling up with a garden, flowers, experimental fruit trees! I love animals...I have two kitties and a wonderful dog. I'm a mom and a wife :). I've had fun being a part of MaryJanes mail art group and now a "secret farmgirl" group. I just love the atmosphere here and such a large group of supportive friends. Thanks for letting me jion in on the fun!
Marianne
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
| 17 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Artsy Chic |
Posted - Oct 22 2008 : 12:56:40 PM
Hi all! Thank you again for the warm welcome. Carol sue, you are right, I need to get a little advise from my neighbor! Especially on roses. Right now I have two families of moose competing for my two largest shrub rose bushes! They aren't supposed to like much but bark and tree branches, but their taste in the city of Anchorage has been changing. They munch on my roses, lilacs mayday trees, cotoneaster shrubs. We have a fence protecting my two apple trees, but the gate was left open overnight and it must have been an "all you can eat buffet" of apples for one of them! Cause the next morning they were bare. Those must have tasted soo good! (compared to their regular diet)
Linda, I haven't been to Valdez, but I have heard that it is amazing!! And that earthquake you got to experience "the big one" as we respectfully refer to it, was a history maker. I wasn't here for that one(1964). I was an idea on my parents mind right about then ;) but we have had a few doozies in the past 20 years. They are fun, when they're over :) I've heard stories about the road looking like a blanket being shaken out. WOW ... I bet the farmgirls in California could tell some earthquake stories too!
Marianne :)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
| Carol Sue |
Posted - Oct 19 2008 : 9:50:18 PM
Hi Marianne,
It sure had been fun reading and wow, your neighbor's garden was something. I think I would be over picking his brain a lot for finding out ways to do things in Alaska.
I bet you love where you live as well.
My aunt and uncle moved up there again, shoot will have to find out where, I thought it was somewhere around Seward.
I am sure glad that you are here, welcome to the forum.
Carol Sue
Farmgirl #39
www.Quitemoments.blogspot.com |
| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 05:57:03 AM
Hi Marianne we are so pleased you are joining us. It is an absolutly wonderful group of farmgirls here.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
MJ's Heirloom Mavens Badgebadger
MJ's Heirloom Mavens Bookclub Coordinator
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 7:38:13 PM
Welcome from Georgia, Marianne! I'll be pretty near you next month.
Glad you're here. Have fun.
Kris |
| vintagetag |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 5:15:28 PM
Welcome Marianne!
I lived in Valdez for all most a year just after the big earthquake - Loved it (Alaska not the quake)! I'm fairly new, too, and am learning much from the sisters who have been here for ahwil.
Linda
Cheyenne, WY
USA |
| Maryjane Lee |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 4:11:13 PM
Hey Marianne! Welcome from CA!!!
Hugs,
Maryjane Lee
Farmgirl Sister #44
http://thebeehivecottage.blogspot.com
http://www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com/
|
| Artsy Chic |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 09:01:13 AM
Hi Lillian, gardening up here is non-stop in the summer. The sun's out nearly around the clock in the summer. It doesn't always get that warm, but when the sun is working it's magic, things grow! Now, getting plants to winter over is a skill I'm still working on. The winter kills a lot of things up here. I love roses and liked planting whatever I could get my hands on, but not everything lived to see another summer. :)
There are people up here with beautiful gardens! Big ones! I have a neighbor down the road (my son's firstgrade teacher) He's from England and is a true master! Take a look at his website! I can't believe it my self sometimes!
http://home.gci.net/~goodgame/
Have a good one1 Marianne
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
| electricdunce |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 08:53:21 AM
Welcome to the forum, you're going to love it here...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
http://moodranch.blogspot.com
http://domesticnonsense.etsy.com |
| Artsy Chic |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 08:45:11 AM
Hi Laurie, Seward is very pretty! Mountains meet the water, I've grown up here but I still am amased at how beautiful it is. I never did the fish canneries, but I had some friends work them in their college days, like you. :) I love the old "main" street in Seward. Icecream and pizza!
Have a good one! Thanks for the welcome :)
Marianne
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 08:09:41 AM
Welcome Marianne! My DH is still trying to convince me to move to Alaska, who knows maybe someday we'll be "neighbors". How is gardening in Anchorage? Glad you are here.
Lillian |
| Alee |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 07:35:55 AM
Welcome to the forum Marianne!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 06:59:47 AM
Welcome aboard. My dad lives up in Seward. Spent several summers there myself working the canneries during college. What a beautiful place.
Best Growing |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 6:38:52 PM
Welcome Marianne! I'm sure you'll love it here. We have lots of Alaskan farmgirls too, as you are already discovering. Glad you joined up!
Dawn in IL |
| Artsy Chic |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 12:16:34 PM
Hi everybody!! What a warm welcome!
How do you like all this fresh snow Jo? I guess I'm ready. Trick or treating in snow gear I suppose! What's new . ;) It looks like you got to your poppies just in time! Thanks for the offer, but I have a nice grouping of those beauties myself.
Thanks for the warm welcome girls! I'll be checking in often! :)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
| jo Thompson |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 11:40:03 AM
Hello Marianne......... I'm on the top of the mountain in Anchorage.... I've been here a long time, shoutin a hello to you.
I've just harvested all my himalayan poppy seeds, would you like some? jo
"life is drab without a lab"
http://web.mac.com/thomja/ |
| ruralfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 09:31:55 AM
Marianne,
Welcome, we are so thrilled you are here.
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
http://farmchicksfarm.blogspot.com/
Mavens are "information specialists", or "people we rely upon to connect us with new information."[6] They accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others
|
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 08:44:38 AM
Welcome Marianne. I have been to Anchorage, I have a cousin that lives there and his Wife is a Doctor Rick and Joy Golden. Its a Beautiful city.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
