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| Mollie |
Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 5:57:51 PM
Hello Everyone! I don't live on a farm but raised on a large wheat farm in rural Kansas and where I spent most of my life. I am now 58 and a retired biology teacher living in Alabama. Our 4 children are grown and starting their own households after college so my husband and I sold our large home (emptynesters) and trying to decide "what" to do for living arrangements. For weeks we are one minute discussing a garden home, then a farm, then who knows. So, whatever we decide, I will enjoy sharing stories and skills about farm life. Being raised on a wheat farm, we didn't have lots of farm animals so have no knowledge about that, we had LOTS of chickens, fancy geese, dogs and cats. I like to sew, can, freeze, and cook. I was an only child and my mother didn't instruct me on farm life (I don't think she enjoyed it) so a lot of it is self taught or spending time with relatives. I have a passion about genealogy and researched my family and became a DAR (Daughter of the American Revolution) and write articles about different family ancestors I discovered for historical magazines. I am really excited about meeting all of you. Mollie |
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| simplegirl |
Posted - Jun 20 2005 : 08:39:09 AM
Glad to have you here Mollie!
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ~Doris Mortman |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 19 2005 : 7:15:12 PM
Welcome Molly! You sound like one of the farmgirls already! Please tell us more about your genealogy pursuits, and what it was like growing up on a wheat farm.
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 10:08:10 PM
Hi Mollie...welcome!!!! I know we have one other farmgirl here from Alabama..Bamasuzy...glad to have another!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things! |
| Alee |
Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 7:22:40 PM
Hi Molly!
My name is Alee and I joined today also!
Genealogy is a great pass-time and can become almost a full time job!
The great thing about it is that you are helping to re-establish your families legacy and your children and such will be able to see a new side of their family all because of your hobby!
Good luck with your research! It will be great getting to know you!
Welcome
Ciao
Alee |
| JoyIowa |
Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 6:51:12 PM
Hi Mollie and welcome.
I'm fairly new myself here, talk about feeling right at home. What took you to Alabama? You are so blessed to be so young and able to retire from teaching. I am very new at hunting for ancestors, but I am determined to give my hubby a piece of his past for Christmas. Hope this week finds you happy and healthy! Enjoy all the friends you'll meet here.
JoyIowa
To live without farm life is merely existing, to live with farm life is living life to it very last experience. |
| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 6:25:56 PM
Hi Mollie! From another Molly.... I'm in Wisconsin and don't live on a farm either (yet!) but I am dreaming and scheming anyway! I enjoy genealogy as well, how far have you gotten back on your family tree? Looking forward to getting to know you!
Take care,
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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| Clare |
Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 6:25:36 PM
welcome Mollie, Glad you found us. Take some time to browse through all the topics, and when it moves you, join right in with your comments!
****Gardener, Stitcher, Spiritual Explorer and Appreciator of all Things Natural****
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb |
