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| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Nov 24 2012 : 11:56:01 PM
Hello!
This is the new home of the Over 50 Farmgirls. This thread originated on the Welcome Wagon Forum. Anyone over the age of 50 is welcome to join in. Feel free to read the older posts for some "history" or just jump in! |
| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Oct 04 2024 : 05:29:21 AM
Hope everyone is doing well. Especially our NC gals. We had lots of rain which we needed and power outages. Still some without it here yet. Downed trees all over but nothing extreme. No flooding thankfully.
~Denise
Sister #43~
"I am a bookaholic and I have no desire to be cured." 
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Feb 17 2024 : 2:41:40 PM
Lol. Maybe the different colors really do have different flavors!
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
"I am a bookaholic and I have no desire to be cured."
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
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| Tall Holly |
Posted - Feb 17 2024 : 2:36:39 PM
We have a cat room in our barn where we feed the barn cats. About four feet off the floor we have a cat door. the kind that swings in and out when pushed. We have free range chickens.
Two of the chickens have figured out that they can fly up and go through that door and eat the dry cat food. I get meow mix. it is four colors. The chickens eat the yellowish and brownish pieces and leave the other two colors in the dish.
How can an animal with a brain the size of a dried pea figure this out?
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jan 28 2024 : 5:51:30 PM
I think we all could attest to knowing a few blisters.
The sun has been hiding from us for over a week now and seems to not want to make an appearance until maybe the middle of this week. We shall see. We've had an excessive amount of rain over the last week. Everything is soggy here.
Marie glad to hear your healing is going well.
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
"I am a bookaholic and I have no desire to be cured."
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
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| Wanda Sue |
Posted - Jan 28 2024 : 3:20:12 PM
Holly I have known a few “blisters” in my day, lol, but never heard that term. Thanks for sharing.
Marie I am glad to hear your healing is going well. Hope it continues.
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
Farm Girl #3677
FGOTM August 2022 |
| churunga |
Posted - Jan 28 2024 : 1:21:25 PM
The pins were removed from my foot with very little pain. I was able to wear a shoe on my right foot for the first time in two months. In a year I will have the left foot fixed in a similar manner.
We have such puny amount of snow. It isn't even worth speaking about. The skies are gloomy and the air is not very cold. I have only worn my coat once.
I have lost enough weight that my rings don't fit anymore.
Marie
Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - Jan 28 2024 : 12:36:44 PM
I learned a new idiom if that is the right term. Some one at my partner's work called someone else a "blister" It is someone who shows up after all the work is done.
Hope you are all well and have far more sunshine in your world than we do in ours. One day of sunshine in the last ten. But, we have made it through the ten coldest darkest weeks of the year and come out on the other side.
Holly
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| Wanda Sue |
Posted - Dec 13 2023 : 6:42:42 PM
Oh Marie, I can’t imagine. I do hope recovery goes smoothly for you.
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
Farm Girl #3677
FGOTM August 2022 |
| churunga |
Posted - Dec 13 2023 : 2:53:12 PM
I had my right foot operation. I now have pins in my big and second toes. This looks like a Franken-foot. <SHUTTER> I have pictures and am reluctant to post them. I cried when I first saw how it looked.
Marie
Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - Dec 13 2023 : 11:28:53 AM
Betty, sorry to hear you have been sick. I hope you feel better.
I learned of a new name for a season here this year. It is called Sticks Season. I guess the term has been in use for a while but I had not heard it.
Holly
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| Betty J. |
Posted - Dec 12 2023 : 09:59:32 AM
Holly, such a lovely post. When my sister and I were at her home in Wenatchee last week, we had our first snow. It was gone in two days, just in time for our trip baci to Pasco, WA. We are now in the gloomy stage of our winter. There is constant overcast and light outside is at a minimum, such that my front door light doesn't go off. This time of year will yield to spring planting and planting for same.
Since I was sick much of this year, I have been watching videos of gardening and have come up with some idea--container planting in 5-gallon buckets. I know it is going to be such fun.
Betty in Pasco |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - Dec 12 2023 : 09:16:54 AM
Good afternoon,
Three Mondays in a row we woke to enough snow to have school canceled. Two of those Mondays we woke to no electricity. Some people did not have electricity the third Monday as well. We have an automatic generator so when the power goes out it comes on. We have had it about three years now. We should have invested in it decades ago. I like its convenience but its noise is too loud in the night for me. It was placed close to the electric box but outside. It is beneath my bedroom window. That kind of noise seems to not bother some people but it makes me crazy.
The snow makes the landscape quite lovely. If we can not have pretty flowers or pretty leaves we should have pretty snow and we do.The trees are draped with flounces of white white snow.
Today the sun is shining. Last night the stars were so brilliant I could see them without my glasses.
Have a good day.
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| Tall Holly |
Posted - Nov 23 2023 : 2:53:23 PM
We had 13 people for Thanksgiving. That number is a little deceptive because we have ten people in the house now. Our youngest has a friend whose family unit is in severe disarray and he is with us now. I do not know for how long. He seems like a nice young man who is shy and quiet.
Have a nice evening.
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| churunga |
Posted - Nov 21 2023 : 09:22:20 AM
I will be going to visit my mother and father in Wisconsin. I am only taking the dog with me so that I can stay more than one night. My parents are elderly and I want to spend more time with them. My dog likes it out in the country and she always goes out on the road which I do not like.
Marie
Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
| Audra Rose |
Posted - Nov 21 2023 : 03:08:29 AM
Shameless plug for the December Tea Swap I'm hosting!
Vanessa
Farmgirl Sister #6754
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - Nov 21 2023 : 03:06:16 AM
The weather is chilly here too and the dogs didn't stay out long in the morning rain. Yesterday we sent off the Thanksgiving newspaper to be printed and today we mail it out. The turkey is in the fridge and my daughter and mother-in-law will be with us on Thanksgiving.
Vanessa
Farmgirl Sister #6754
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| Tall Holly |
Posted - Nov 20 2023 : 6:44:19 PM
Good evening everyone,
After a balmy October we have finally dipped below freezing and are getting snow. Not a lot but enough to remind us to get our last minute preparations for winter finished.
I still have to hang a window quilt over the french doors and another window or two.
Then we will be set. The wood is in, the hay is in and the animals that were going are in the freezer. We are set well as set as we will be.
I hope everyone has a nice holiday and stays safe.
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Oct 25 2023 : 06:26:03 AM
My volunteer petunias are still going strong. It looks like the pink ones may have been touched by our light frost though.
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
"I am a bookaholic and I have no desire to be cured."
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
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| churunga |
Posted - Oct 01 2023 : 3:17:10 PM
PEO stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization.
"The P.E.O. Sisterhood (Philanthropic Educational Organization) is a U.S.-based international women's organization of about 230,000 members, with a primary focus on providing educational opportunities for female students worldwide. The Sisterhood is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, with chapters throughout the United States and Canada. Among other projects, it owns and supports Cottey College, an independent college for women in Nevada, Missouri."
Marie
Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - Oct 01 2023 : 2:36:33 PM
I do not know what P.E.O. stands for. It is not an organization I recognize here in the Northeast.
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| criley |
Posted - Sep 27 2023 : 6:46:43 PM
Hi Sisterhood!!
In addition to Farmgirls, are there any P.E.O. members seeing this post? I belong to a chapter in Jefferson City, MO.
Coni
Farmgirl Sister #4938
Livin' the Life of Riley |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - Sep 05 2023 : 5:59:47 PM
Good evening everyone,
Volunteer flowers how lucky you are.
Today was hotterin' blue blazes. Even early in the morning when I was cutting saplings to clear a path to the trees that were felled in the spring I was sweating so my shirt was wet. This afternoon we were pulling trees out with the tractor. In the woods it was pleasant. In the field it was blazing. Tomorrow more of the same. NOT complaining at all it could be raining. It used to be that we had a frost by now and the growing season would be done for the fragile plants. Not this year.
We had Special Olympics track and field practice tonight. It was hot walking the track so we did not do a lot of running. The sun went down and the breeze picked up. We went for ice cream sandwiches on the way home. A nice treat.
Sweet dreams,
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| churunga |
Posted - Sep 05 2023 : 09:53:30 AM
Usually by this time of year, the temperatures suddenly drop as if the furnace has been shut off. Although the temperature is under 90 degrees, I do not feel the usual change in the air.
Marie
Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Sep 05 2023 : 07:10:07 AM
Holly, how sweet! We never had any hens hatch out chick's. We did have a setting hens but she never hatched any.
She wasn't very reliable.
Last week I was out in the gardens and noticed a white petunia had popped up. Not sure where it came from because we did have any. Also yesterday we spent time in the front garden weeding and there was a pink petunia, a morning glory and some other flower that all came from out of nowhere. I'm considering them little gifts!
We are still quite warm this week but it be cooling down co siderably by the end of the week.
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
"I am a bookaholic and I have no desire to be cured."
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
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| lovecatsandsunshine |
Posted - Sep 04 2023 : 4:46:15 PM
Still hot in upstate SC.
I discovered that a tomato plant broke during a wind storm. My husband wrapped tape around broken stem. The tomatoes are too small to harvest
Grasshoppers taking over property. I should get the net and catch some. I'd have food to feed my pond frogs
Today's good mood brought to you by a lot of coffee!!!
Farmgirl #8548
FGOTM April 2023 |
