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Across the Fence:  What makes you feel like a farmgirl?  |
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
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 Posted - May 10 2007 : 05:06:52 AM
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Yesterday I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner. I couldn't come up with anything, because I didn't know if hubby was going to be tied up in meetings, or if he'd make it home at a reasonable hour. I wanted to school a couple of horses in the afternoon, so cooking something elaborate wasn't going to work, either. I finally settled on ham sandwiches. I had a huge slice of ham that I'd cooked the other day, and it was too thick to put between slices of bread. So I cut it into chunks, got out my grinder and ground it up and made ham salad. I hadn't gotten out my grinder in YEARS. Made me wonder why I haven't done it more.
As I stood there in front of the grinder (alongside the dog who was entranced because IT WAS RAINING MEAT! ) I thought, this makes me feel like a farmgirl again. So many of the other things, the scooping poop and working the garden, have gotten to just be everyday chores. But for some reason grinding the ham and wearing my apron made me feel like a farmgirl again. I also felt like a farmgirl out there last night inspecting the cherry trees for developing fruit. There's going to be some pies, and cherry liqueur for sure.
Funny how that farmgirl feeling can come. Sometimes it's just tying on the apron before I start making bread. Sometimes it's hearing the sparrows argue in the barnyard, or in the bend-and-stretch of hanging out the clothes. When do you feel like a farmgirl? What brings that on for you? |
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 06:13:46 AM
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| I get that feeling when I garden and look around and see everything starting to bloom and you can smell the freshness of the earth...especially after it rains. Watching nature in my backyard, the birds at the birdfeeders, the squirrels frolicking, the woodpeckers with their 'rat-a-tat-tatting', and the occasional deer stolling by the woods give me that feeling, also. I like that the area I live in has some farms and I'll buy their fresh produce and local grass-fed beef and eggs. |
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 07:23:00 AM
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| When it's a beautiful, sunny day- I'm in rolled-up jeans and a wife beater(tank top),covered with mud! Love digging in the garden, watching everything grow and seeing and listening to the birds! |
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 07:37:04 AM
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I love this topic. The things that make me feel most like a farmgirl are baking bread (kneading is so basic & pure) and getting my hands dirty in the soil when planting & harvesting what I planted.
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 07:45:37 AM
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Knowing the name of almost every flower, bush, trees, types of birds, etc in and around my yard...Helping those little "bun-rabs" over the weekend, wanting to be home, in the garden or in the kitchen, more than any place on the planet.
Believe it or not, I get a sense of pride when I look down at my rather rugged cuticles, and no-polish nails. The rest of me is pretty refined, but those hands get dirty!
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 08:08:58 AM
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| I am just learning, but I feel very farmgirly when I garden or when I drive in my Jeep, sun roof open, windows down, in my ripped jeans and t-shirt and cowgirl boots. Also, for some reason, when I have fresh flowers in my home that I picked myself. |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 08:20:30 AM
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I guess it is hay in my hair. And generally when I am out in the barn or with the horses and don't have any high boots on I put a roll in my jeans so they don't get dirty. I was in a store and saw my jeans were still rolled up so I proceeded to unroll them, right in an aisle, and I left a pile of hay in the middle of the aisle. I just wandered off after that.lol MB
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"Life may not be the party we hoped for...but while we are here we might as well dance!" |
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Firemama
True Blue Farmgirl
1731 Posts
Amanda
Medical Lake
WA
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 08:40:35 AM
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For me it is just being outside, in my pesant skirt or playing with the dogs...
Mommy to 2
Your FreckleFaced Farm Girl!!
Help when you can, Pray when you can't. |
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 11:04:55 AM
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Working in the garden and being covered with dirt (I'm messy), knitting washclothes, making laundry detergent - whenever I'm doing something from scratch or the slow, natural way. All these years, since I had my children, I knew I was different- living in the suburbs and yearning, always yearning for something. Now I know... it's the simple life and making do and reveling in who I am - a farmgirl.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 1:18:04 PM
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I feel like a farmgirl when I cook good healthy food to feed my family, nurse my daughter, and when I spend time in my garden. :)
Alee
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mommom
True Blue Farmgirl
854 Posts
Susan
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 7:12:03 PM
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| I am a very proud farmgirl in the fall season when I open my freezer and see all of the wonderful veggies and fruits that I have put up for my family for the winter months ahead. I'm also very happy when, in the winter snowy months, I see my family outside in hats and scarves that I have knit for them! I am just a contented farmgirl all the time, I think! Susan |
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
4877 Posts
Wendy
Utah
USA
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 7:23:21 PM
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this may sound silly but I grew up on a 125 acer farm with corn and cotton all around. So of course you can only expect spiders and such in the house. My children only live on a farm when I visit my grandmother where I grew up. So for 1 week 2 or 3 times a year they see a farm and not in its hay day to say the least. As a kid I was never afraid of catching the stray field mouse in the house in an old canning jar and putting on the trash burn pile and getting rid of bugs. My children have been raised in the city a small rural city but a city all the same when they see a spider they scream for mom to come take care of it or if they see a field mouse ( we had two in the house last year due to vacant 2 acher lots around my house) once again out came the canning jar and I caught the mice. My husband was surprised. My statement was "" What you didn't think I could do it" He said he didn't think he would be faster than a mouse. ANy way long story short just not being afraid of nature no matter how fuzzy or leggy it is. Silly but it drives me nuts that my kids are afraid of spiders and the such. Some day I will owen a house that looks like a barn and rest on at least a doz acers.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 7:33:33 PM
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I feel like a farmgirl most of all when I'm harvesting something - picking sweet cherries high up in a tree, crouching down and plucking ripe strawberries, or snapping plump peas off the vine and dropping them into my basket. It's a real good feeling to grow and harvest and.. eat!
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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MariaAZ
True Blue Farmgirl
203 Posts
Phoenix
AZ
203 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 7:38:35 PM
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I usually feel like a farmgirl all the time (I think I was born into it, just not to a farm family!) However, I feel REAL 'farmgirly' when I'm watching our pet chickens scratch about the back yard, or when I'm collecting chicken eggs.
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
568 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 11:21:58 AM
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Dirty feet and dirty hands, walking around in the dirt, pulling weeds. : )
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
2045 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 7:11:26 PM
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For me it's driving the tractor or the pickup truck instead of my little Aztek (which is a pretty good vehicle, after all, but I drive it to work, definitely not a farmgirl job) I do all the other stuff, but like you said, it doesn't bring back the nostalgia for the "good old days".
Maybe because when I was a teenager I baled hay and had horses. The other night DH was out of town and I had to use "his" JD riding mower to mow the lawn (it was really tall). Maybe it was the green and yellow, and the smell of the grass. I don't feel the same nostalgia riding the 4-wheeler or the antique Ford tractor around the farm, (we didn't have an antique Ford tractor when I was a kid! But we did have a John Deere 2010). Actually when I drive the antique tractor what I primarily feel is FEAR!
Oh, I guess there is one other time that I really feel like a farmgirl and that is standing in the orchard and picking wild black raspberries. Again, it brings back those memories of picking with Grandma and my aunt Kate and dribbling juice all down my new blouse (eating more than went in the bucket, probably) and Aunt Kate having to boil water on the stove to get the stains out so my mom wouldn't find out and be mad at me.....<grin>
When I was a kid, I was more often outside doing horsey things instead of inside cleaning and knitting and sewing with my aunts and mom(that was for girly-girls, I was more of a tomboy). My 4-H club was called "Boots and Saddles", I started in another club but everyone was doing sewing projects....
Well, going to the fair really makes me feel like a farmgirl. All my entries are in the Arts and Crafts (and baking) building now, I don't have any livestock to show at all. So I guess I have become the girly-girl after all!
hmmm. You've really made me think!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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Edited by - brightmeadow on May 11 2007 7:21:22 PM |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2007 : 03:42:29 AM
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Whenever I turn off the main road and stard driving on ours. It's dead end and still dirt.
There are only 3 houses including our own all of which are spread out enough we all have more than enough privacy.
Seeing pristine plowed fields w/out any weeds and small plant-etts that will in time become a bountiful garden.
Especially in the early evenings and some afternoons when all I can hear is silence so quiet your ears ring.
And of course, roaming the abandoned fields picking scads of wild blackberries, hoeing out rows of potatoes and watermelon and thanking our Creator every day we are able to live off this beautiful land. |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9382 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9382 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2007 : 03:56:08 AM
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| When I'm feeding the animals or collecting eggs. Basically anytime I'm running around barefooted doing the chores. :) I do not like mice no matter where we have lived and especially I hate snakes in the henhouse. Guess I wasn't one of the ones meant to take dominion over the animals like my son tells me we are. |
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
367 Posts |
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