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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 10:22:40 AM
Got my Outpost vintage trailer popup up at the campsite this last weekend. Spent the weekend sleeping out both nights. Come for a visit on my blog and see the set up.
Plans for every week, I hope, until it gets so snow deep I can't make it to the camp , unless i use a dog sled team : )
Had a great time, moon full and sounds of the woods and campfire coffee and breakfast cookout was just wonderful. Can't wait tell this weekend at my Outpost 
tc linda
Thanks to Mary Jane and others for the inspiration of having my very own Outpost.
Locust Trail Homestead
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Oct 06 2008 : 6:28:29 PM
Hey thank you Chris. Say I was just over on your blog and was reading about how your gardening in the tubs, like the ones in MJ's mag. How cool is that. Your plants look great and oh your garden is all clean looking with all that beautiful straw layed down.
I love my outpost but gardening is so up there and every year I want to do better in the garden. Bigger and better : )
New thing for me last Jan. is Winter Sowing, oh my goodness is it a great way to get a jump start on plants. I will be starting my WS in containers the end of Dec this year.
I'll be keeping up with your blog and see how your tubs turn out for winter gardening. I bet they will be just great.
Linda
Farmgirl Sister #343
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| daylily |
Posted - Oct 06 2008 : 2:01:16 PM
Linda Ellen, I just visited your blog & what a great read! I love your campsite and the chuckwagon is wonderful. I think I have to build one. Makes me want to raid the scrap wood pile...
Thanks so much for sharing!
Chris
Farmgirl Sister #346
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Sep 30 2008 : 07:27:06 AM
jinia, thank you for stopping by my blog for a visit. I need to do another update blog. I have had my 7th weekend camping out. We have had company this week, had no time to blog.
They have a vintage trailer camping in our front yard, LOL. It was a green trailer that they called "Toad" , painted it a tan and brown, it looks brand new, now looking for a new name.
They are having so much fun in their trailer. I wish we could have pulled it back to my Outpost in the woods but the trails are to narrow and they might not leave , LOL. I wouldn't
Now I want a trailer like theirs, oh us people and our wants, never ending :P
They got a super great deal, fixing it up and havin a hoot!!! I'm sharing with them because its hard now a days to travel. To make their own Outpost at their home. They bought some vintage chairs just like the ones on my Outpost. They want to keep them here for when they come back. Cool , but I had a better idea for them. She wants to paint them. So why not paint them the color of their trailer, make their own Outpost for when they don't travel, get one of those neat firepits, set up camp at home. Their heads perked up with the idea and I think its a go.
Traveling is fun and I think if you got the time and means to do so , go for it. But you know after all the traveling there really is no place like home, cuz its yours to do with what you like.
So fixing up your own get away spot, the way Mary Janes tells it, you can have it in the city or country and in between. And I believe that cuz I have live in the city, smack dab in downtown city , country and the in between. And my family had country in us the whole time.
Happy Outpost at home
Linda
Farmgirl Sister #343
Locust Trail Homestead
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| jinia |
Posted - Sep 28 2008 : 2:54:06 PM
LindaEllen I enjoyed your blog very much! Amazing pictures! |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Sep 01 2008 : 10:41:36 AM
Added a Bath house this weekend to my Outpost. I love it
I have more pictures on my blog, come for a visit when you get some time
tc linda
Locust Trail Homestead
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| Jami |
Posted - Aug 28 2008 : 07:31:50 AM
Super cool, wowza, awesome LindaEllen! What a spot you've setup!
Jami in WA
Farmgirl Sister #266
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 6:53:30 PM
Susan what a great idea for using baby food jars for holding spices when camping. LOL on your 25 yr old baby. I have only one baby food jar that has all the kids baby teeth in it. I just didn't have the heart to toss those tiny little teeth away. The kids found it when they were older, in grade school. I told them the tooth fairy gave them back. Worst part was they wanted to know who's tooth was who's :P
Karin, I didn't know I was an apron farmgirl all along. I found more that I had put away. They are out now and I might just wear them once in awhile 
thanks girls for your comments
tc linda
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| electricdunce |
Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 2:36:41 PM
I love the girly chuck wagon and your forgotten apron is a beauty. Nothing more soothing than spending the night in the great outdoors. Your whole set up looks terrific...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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| Suzan |
Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 07:40:12 AM
I knew I was keeping those baby food jars for something! Husband wanted to throw them out plenty of times (baby is 25) but I said NO! They would work great for the spices... |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 07:02:14 AM
Thank you girls, I'm having so much fun and adding more things that I can use when I'm cooking outside. Putting all my cowboy tin wear up in the chuckwagon. Gosh the rain ain't go'na hurt it a bit.
I'll just have to eat out of glass plates here at home instead of my pie pan shape cowboy plate. Or better yet just eat up at the campsite : ).
Things like stick matches can be put in a glass jar with tight lid to keep dry, little glass jars to hold spices. I'll have to keep it critter proof the best I can.
I moved things around a bit,old wooden picnic table closer to the chuckwagon and firepit. I mean we make things closer in our kitchens so why not the campsite too, lol.
Got out my 100 Years of Camp Cooking cookbook with ol timey pictures and true stories. Lots of Dutch Oven recipes. Thats the next thing on my want list to get a Dutch Oven.
All have a great day, I'm headin out on the trails in a bit with a cup of coffee in hand {:)]
tc linda
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 07:00:34 AM
Linda, that is just to to cute!!
NANCY JO
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| campchic |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 06:53:02 AM
Your blog is great! I love your outpost. You are giving me so many ideas!!!
Keep up the good work!
Erin
Farmgirl #190 |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 06:30:13 AM
LOL City Chick, got plenty of room for your popup, lol Ths for stopping by my blog. You have a good one. I'll keep the coffee pot going for ya : )
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| City Chick |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 04:10:52 AM
I love it!!!
Love your Yahoo blog as well. Got room for my pop-up over at your Outpost?  It looks so cozy there.
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 08:43:05 AM
Built a chuckwagon this last weekend. Using some old wagon wheels , hog fence and old lumber. Its rough but oh it works so well in the Outpost.
If you got some time check out some more pictures of the chuckwagon on my other yahoo blog.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-IREskSwmeqqunPcTcV_hshP7jmCxDuo-?cq=1
all have a great week
tc linda, whos havin a whole lot of fun at the Outpost.
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 5:57:36 PM
Thanks girls , just got back from town and popped in on your all's blogs, oh theres so much good reading.
jpbluesky/ darling granddaughter/s, great pictures
NANCY JO, lots of good reads on your blog, You know I got a tray just like the one you got on one of your finds, lol. But mine is rusty, its yellow and flowers painted on it, lol. I'm looking at it now, yep a lot rusty!!!!
LOL on decorating outside, just way to much fun, lol
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 11:52:23 AM
lINDA,
EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT!! You really got the whole idea down. So mush fun, just like having a new house to decorate except its outside.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 11:29:08 AM
Great blog! Love all the photos and the outdoor living! Wow.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 08:12:18 AM
Thanks so much about my blog! lol :)
I forgot we did have a magazine rack too! lol :) I almost forgot that!
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 07:44:26 AM
Thanks Christina /City_Chick. I just got back from a walk on our trails. Seen your post and had to go over and take a look at your blog, very nice, lots of nice pictures, garden, cake, yum and your great fines, that sewing machine, wow. Your DD is so cute and a good job she did on her first sewing project.
On my other post,above, I mention I can't comment using my PC. Your blog will also be one that I will be visiting,I just can't comment. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed
tc linda
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| City_Chick |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 07:09:38 AM
Looks great Linda! I loved the pictures on your blog and story to go with them.
Christina
Farmgirl Sister #195
http://justacitychick.blogspot.com/
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start; anyone can start from now
and make a brand new end.
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 06:59:12 AM
Chives, I have seen all those cute trailers. I wish I still had my vintage trailer. I forgot the name of it but it was sure cute. Had a stove and icebox, sleeped four, and then the one side could be made into a table, loved it. My family, the four of us camped in it when moved to the sticks from the city, then after the cabin was built we moved it further in the woods and I stayed in it tell it got really cold, lol.
Those little teardrop trailers are so cute.
I have to say MJ and its members have made me look at things differently and remembering things I did many years ago. I'm having so much fun here.
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 06:51:40 AM
Thanks MagnoliaWhisper, I know of the windows you speak of, before we built our earthcontact home, we lived in the ugliest trailer ever. It's still standing and holds all our junk that we are now finally cleaning up. It has the little roll out windows and big roll out windows too, lol.
I wish you had pictures too of your outhouse. We had a 2 holder over at the folks homestead , the first thing that was put up when we moved to the sticks. You know that was a very good idea that your mom came up with, using the one hole for a sink cuz I don't think many go tothe outhouse together, we didn't, lol.
On my other blog that has the same post, one of my blog friends said it needed some reading material, lol. guess I shoud put up a magazine rack .
Boy have I found a lot of goodies on the curb, a couple of seasons ago someone tossed out a big gazebo, its in my garden : ). I have found new sleds, skies, artist easel, paint wooden box w/oil paint. A fencing outfit with two mask and swords. Camping plates,coffee pot and pans. Someone even tossed out love letters, a little over a 100 letters. They are now over 130 years old w/ stamps too. I think they should be made into a book, got some good reads.
Yep theres more goodies I have found. Give me a pickup truck and a town that tosses out stuff and I'm on cloud nine.
I went on over to visit your blog, nice, Your stitch work is great. My PC won't let me comment , but I'll be over for more visits.
I'll be having good thoughts and prayers that you get the farm of your hopes and dreams.
tc linda
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| Chives |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 06:45:31 AM
I know they have the sisters on the fly with all their great looking trailers. Maybe we should have a MJ farmgirl outpost organization going?? Vicki #280 |
| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 06:20:40 AM
LOVE your campsite.
When we had a cabin, my mom really fixed up our outhouse, it does seem like she had some pictures in there! I know she for sure put on a toilet seat.
And she used to recycle a lot of things she found in the trash! One thing she found that I really liked was some windows. I think they are like the kind you see on trailer homes. It was the old crank style, that was slats of glass. And you would crank the crank and the slats would move upwards and outwards. Any way she found two. And put one on each side! That was wonderful! They were the kind of glass you can't see through, like for the bathroom of a trailer home maybe? They were the kind with the little texture of bubbles like in the glass. I wish I had pictures! Man I wish I had pics. Cause that would be so helpful here! Grrr. Any way she also put up screens. Boy did that help the SMELLS! lol haha
Any way, she also put in candle sconces. (with the mirrored/shiny backs). And a pump sink. We had a double holer! So she covered up one whole and put the "sink" there. It was a camp sink. And you would fill it up with water. And then pump the water out as needed. It was also scavenged from some trash. (she didn't dumpster dive, but if we were driving around and seen something useful by a dumpster she would stop and pick it up, and it's how we got almost all our windows and such!).
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