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| bybiddie |
Posted - Mar 22 2006 : 2:15:26 PM
I'm just starting out on my farmgirl path - hope to be closing on 4 acres of heaven next week in upstate NY! Have an outbuilding for hens, stream, trees, and BIG plans! Reading all of your posts has given me such a feeling of hope and encouragement - thought I'd step out of the "closet" and introduce myself!
I'm in my early 50s (better late than never...) on my own and lovin' it. My grandparents were farmers during the Depression and didn't make it, but the farming genes were definitely passed on!
Love to meet some farmgirls up near Berlin NY - I'm a knitter, sewer, fair carpenter, canner, and "mom" to four cats and 2 dogs. Spring is right around the corner and I'm chompin at the bit!
Susan
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - May 18 2006 : 04:59:07 AM
Welcome Susan. Gee, I really need to read this topic more often! Hopefully Spring has sprung up there in NY and you are busy as a bee on your farm. Glad you are here. It sounds like you have just found your own piece of heaven. Good luck.
Karin |
| Sunshine Farmgirl |
Posted - May 16 2006 : 07:00:48 AM
Hello Susan,
I just recently joined and couldn't help but hear myself in your words. Getting in to the farm life, whether your returning or in for the first time, is the best thing a person could ever do for themselves. What a great feeling. Best of luck and hope to be chatting with you again soon.
Wendy
"they say I've lost my mind....I think I've finally found it" |
| asnedecor |
Posted - Apr 14 2006 : 8:34:09 PM
Welcome Susan
When you can you must post pictures of your new place, sounds wonderful. Always wanted property with a stream. I love mornings too, I love sitting and watching the sun come up with a cup of coffee - just too bad during the week I have to do that at work. Again, welcome to the group - you will enjoy it here.
Anne in Portland, OR
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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| cajungal |
Posted - Apr 14 2006 : 04:28:23 AM
Good Morning, Susan!
So glad you came 'out'. Staying in a closet can be very stuffy. Around here, all the gals are just right out in the open about how much they love their lives. Everyone has so much in common even though we are so different in many ways.
What a great treat to be able to meet those two super Farmgirls. And a great treat for them to welcome you aboard! Can't wait to hear more of your adventures.
Blessings
Catherine
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
| sillyfoulks |
Posted - Apr 12 2006 : 11:04:47 AM
Welcome Susan, before long you will feel right out home here. It's a great bunch of farmgirls who hang out here. And I know we all can't wait to get to know you.
Elizabeth
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
http://livingcountrystyle.blogspot.com/ |
| bybiddie |
Posted - Apr 12 2006 : 10:59:47 AM
Cheers to Rosie & Mari-Dahlia! A very lovely lunch with wonderful views and great company! It was so comforting to find two other farmgirls almost in my backyard 
Lovin' my life |
| RosieRiveter |
Posted - Apr 07 2006 : 11:06:39 AM
I was lucky to meet Susan at Mari-Dahlia's lovely home on Thursday. Both Susan and Marianne are great ladies, and we hope to meet on a regular basis!
Rosie |
| theherblady |
Posted - Mar 23 2006 : 12:25:09 PM
Welcome Susan~~Glad you found us~!
Jan |
| rosebud74a |
Posted - Mar 23 2006 : 11:20:02 AM
Hello form another upstate New Yorker. Glad to hear about your land. it is never to late to begin something that you have a pssion for, plannig is half the fun of doing thing!! Is Berlin close to New Berlin. I live near cooperstown. Glad to see you found the site.
Stacy
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937
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| lonestargal |
Posted - Mar 23 2006 : 05:36:06 AM
Hi Susan and welcome!! Good luck closing on your property. How exciting for you!! It sounds like you're going to have a wonderful time setting up your farm. I can't wait for spring either. It was in the 70-80 around here for a couple weeks and now ugly old man winter has shown his face again and we were on a snow advisory all last night!! What the heck man?! I love spring too--I'm an outdoors kinda gal. Glad your here to join us. Let us know how your escrow goes through!! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 23 2006 : 05:13:43 AM
hi susan! welcome! welcome! xoxo, frannie
True Friends, Frannie |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Mar 22 2006 : 4:26:29 PM
Welcome Susan!! YOu sound just great!! How neat to be getting 4 acres!!! I will love hearing updates as you get things done...you are going to fit right in around here!! I wish I were a morning person!!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
| Julia |
Posted - Mar 22 2006 : 3:04:20 PM
I would love to have mornings on a farm. A cup of tea and a view, aahh!
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| bybiddie |
Posted - Mar 22 2006 : 2:23:39 PM
Thanks Julia & Valerie! I am a paralegal (dry business) when I'm not farming. I am very lucky to have found a place that's near my job (but far enough away that I can forget about it by the time I get home!) and I have odd hours, so my mornings are my own and morning happens to be my favorite time of day! It's a win-win situation!
Lovin' life |
| Julia |
Posted - Mar 22 2006 : 2:20:29 PM
Welcome Susan! You will love this place, a lot to of cool ladies! I am just learning to spin and knit, hoping for grandbabies soon to make booties for. Other than the farming you will be doing, what do you do?
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| akcowgirl |
Posted - Mar 22 2006 : 2:20:23 PM
Welcome to the Group, it is a great place to be. Good Luck on you closeing, that is so exciting.
Valerie
Alaska Girl all the Way
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