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A Farm of My Own:  How many people name their home or farm?  |
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joyfulmama
True Blue Farmgirl
1175 Posts
Debra
Silver Springs
NV
USA
1175 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 03 2007 : 6:16:06 PM
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what wonderful memories for the kids.. they will always remember that mom called the washer Oceana! :-) I have got to get better at making little memories for my kids.
thanks for this..
Blessings, Debra
Psalms 23:1 "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want."
http://myvintagehome.com
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2007 : 9:20:08 PM
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I love naming things, too - I spent a few years growing up in a home called "Quail Crossing," that was just beautiful - in the middle of a city block, with a driveway that went all the way through - BIG old trees lining it. It was a wonderful place. Now, on my old farm, I've been wrestling with a name, because I LOVE named places. My current thought, and, I hope, the best yet, is "Country Mile Farm." However, everyone in town just calls it "the old Sylvester place," after my great and great-great-grandparents who lived here.
Kate - that is SO cool that your washer is Oceana! I have a few choice names for mine, but none of them are quite fit to share !
XOXO, Libbie
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paradiseplantation
True Blue Farmgirl
1277 Posts
julie
social springs community
Louisiana
USA
1277 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2007 : 08:31:49 AM
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We named our house Paradise Plantation. Paradise, because after waiting fifteen years to be able to finally buy out own little piece of Heaven, we took one look at this place and knew it was our very own Paradise. The Plantation comes because my husband was born in South Louisiana, and I've ALWAYS wanted to own a Plantation home. My house falls short of one of those Southern Beauties, but I love it just the same. And when I finally get through with it, and if you squint really really hard, you might be able to make out the similarities!
from the hearts of paradise... |
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corporatefarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
389 Posts
Tamara
Pikeville
TN
USA
389 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2007 : 1:25:27 PM
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Hi everyone. We named our place The Good Earth Farm. Our little piece of heaven provides us with so many wonderful things - food, rest, comfort, pleasure - That The Good Earth Farm was a way to recognize that.
there is a seed to plant in every heart |
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Canadian farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Lori
Ontario
Canada
482 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2007 : 2:19:32 PM
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I would like to name our farm, but it seems like around here, everyone knows your farm by its previous owners! I do find it frustrating, having grown up somewhere else, so I don't know who all the other settlers were in the area! Can be very confusing when trying to find someplace you've never been, and you get directions from the old-timers!
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sweetthunder214
Farmgirl in Training
26 Posts
theresa
smithville
tx
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 07:29:12 AM
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| We have only been here a year and I kinda want to wait a while to name it but all my friends who come to visit nickname it Schady Acres because our last name is Schader. Who knows. .it might stick but I want to see if something a little more elegant comes along.. tee hee |
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 11:11:05 AM
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Well, we're moving to my step-grandparents farm - it's a pear orchard. And we named it out of necessity. We kept having to clarify when we talked about it, lest it be confused with my other grandparents' farm. So, one is the Farm, and our new place is now Orchard House.
"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."
http://theprimroseway.blogspot.com/ |
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
1553 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 11:43:26 AM
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Theresa, I like the name Schady Acres, or how about just calling it Schader Acres which rhymes better?
Jo
"Wish I had time to work with herbs all day!" |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 3:40:18 PM
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| I name everything too =) Our current auto is an older Suberu that I have named "Gerty" because she is red hat society red and I like the name. We have the "Owl tree" because a Great horned comes in the winter and sits in it at night. My new pr series range is called "Pandora" because I haven't learned to use all of it's features very well yet and some things come out of it good and some come out bad. LOL! |
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faithmarie
True Blue Farmgirl
143 Posts
faith
wappingers falls
new york
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 4:21:41 PM
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I am still laughing at Dawn's name The Crap House!! That was sooooo funny.
We named our 1937 home Birch Hill Manor 27 years ago because there were at least 25 beautiful white birch trees. Now there are only a few left. We were told they only live about 50 years anyway. Should we change the name?
When we bought our log cabin on Schroon Lake our friends had a sign made for our cabin Faith's Landing. because My name is Faith and my husband would fly his Lake Anphibian and land in front of our cabin.
My daughter and son-in-love built there home on 62 acers 2 years and they have been trying to name there place ever since.They have 30 chickens and 3 goats. Now there last name is Slaughter. I tols them to name the place Slaughter House Farm , but they won't. They want to name it Bunny Hill Farm. They have alot of wild bunnies running around thier land.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven |
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Pickles
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Dairy Princess
Cheney
WA
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2007 : 9:02:12 PM
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Mine is Hodge Podge Lodge or HPL for short....it's a 124 year old farmhouse that's been updated numerous times...by folks with no business updating anything! So, every remodel opens pandorahs box and shows us all of the craziness behind the walls! But, I love it and can't wait until it's no longer HPL!
Heather :)
Live Long, Laugh Often, Farm Much!! |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9351 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9351 Posts |
Posted - Sep 24 2007 : 10:10:45 AM
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We call the name of our place "This Side of the Fence". Everyone else in our area knows it as Gibes Hill.
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and all that dwell therein."
www.torismimi.blogspot.com |
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Sep 24 2007 : 10:14:24 AM
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Ours has been fondly entitled "The Other Side of the Fence". Guess who I share a fence-line with? ;)
hugs Jessie
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; O What a foretaste of Glory DIVINE! |
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Sep 27 2007 : 06:48:42 AM
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BUMP I thought this topic was to cute not to bump
hugs jessie
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; O What a foretaste of Glory DIVINE! |
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jcbtxstars
True Blue Farmgirl
77 Posts
Julia C
Midland
Texas
USA
77 Posts |
Posted - Sep 27 2007 : 06:58:46 AM
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I have named my studio/darkroom "Local 106" nick name "The Hall"...years and years ago my dad was a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 106...I remember when I was little I was his shadow...I always wanted to go with him...sometimes I could not go cuz he was going to "The Hall"....
http://jcbtxstars-local106.blogspot.com/ |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 28 2007 : 10:23:00 AM
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Hey Farm Girls
I have always called my little farm "Cozy Cottage Farm", but I am changing the name because I am building a new house and want something unique because my builder is going to show the house as a prototype of "green/small home" building.
I live off "3 Skillet Road" so I am changing the name to, of course, "3 Skillet Farm"
Connie
Texas Farm Girl
cozycottage |
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Nin
True Blue Farmgirl
106 Posts
Enjoyng life in the world of Peachy Hollow
106 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2007 : 4:27:01 PM
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when we move into our home, it's going to be called Peachy Hollow
www.peachyhollow.com |
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Kim Frey
Farmgirl in Training
10 Posts
Kim
Dagsboro
DE
USA
10 Posts |
Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 7:17:30 PM
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We call our little farmette "Thistle Dew Farm," which is a play on the words "This'll Do." We liked the name so much we named our business after it as well!
Kim :-)
www.thistledewmercantile.com |
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Nin
True Blue Farmgirl
106 Posts
Enjoyng life in the world of Peachy Hollow
106 Posts |
Posted - Oct 24 2007 : 06:53:46 AM
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I've always wanted a home with trees around it called "Beechy Hollow", or if there were no trees, "Windy Hollow". It's kind of how I got the name for my blog (which is just a more pretty version of it, better suited to a website than a house)
www.peachyhollow.com
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small graces
True Blue Farmgirl
108 Posts
Jennifer
Candor
NY
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - Oct 28 2007 : 1:49:51 PM
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We named our farm, because we needed a name for tax purposes. We are forget me not farm. Our home is the color of forgetme nots. It's ironic though, that I plant forget menot's every year and they never take. I thought they were a perennial flower!!!
"Think about this day for a moment, Charlie Brown"... http://fmnfarm.blogspot.com/ |
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mrsmorgen
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
morgen
coudersport
pa
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Nov 01 2007 : 06:00:34 AM
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We have named our cabin Bear Rock, for the bears and giant rocks that inhabit the back yard. I wanted to name it Curmudgeon's Cabin for my husbands social outlook but he pooh pooh'd it and then invited someone up to prove me wrong. Actually we have people in all the time and his grumpiness is all a front, so I figure Bear Rock turned out to be better after all. I hope to move somewhere with a little more land so we can have goats. That will need a name too. My subaru is just called Sue B. and now i have a few more things to name!!! I have been inspired.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all..
laura ingalls wilder |
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small graces
True Blue Farmgirl
108 Posts
Jennifer
Candor
NY
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - Nov 01 2007 : 7:38:55 PM
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We are talking vehicle names now? I have to add! My sister and her family got a ford expedition, (gotta have 4WD in our part of NY) and they called it the "Bubba", because it was so big. We ended up with a used, Eddie Bauer edition, of the same vehicle, a few years later. She is now the "Bubba-Licious."
We never run out of things to name on this farm. With the lambs we get a new theme every year. This year was bugs. Ladybug,Bettle, Luna, (moth), Monarch, etc. We've done -Peter Pan names, Bible names, and tried names that start with V. There are not many names that start with V!
"Think about this day for a moment, Charlie Brown"... http://fmnfarm.blogspot.com/ |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Nov 02 2007 : 9:03:32 PM
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Not to sound vain, but we have the name "Lavender Grace Farm" planned for our little 5 acre farmette....I hope to plant the front acre in lavender while the back 4 acres will be for a large victory garden and fruit trees and the rest just to play on.
We don't name our cars except the '54 chevy, DH calls her "Christine" because he swears the car is possesed & out to get him! long story, I'll save it for another day!
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
Sisters on the Fly#472
www.katmom4.blogspot.com |
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small graces
True Blue Farmgirl
108 Posts
Jennifer
Candor
NY
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - Nov 09 2007 : 1:30:13 PM
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I hope you will post pictures of your lavender field when it's in bloom. I just love lavender!
Small Graces
"Think about this day for a moment, Charlie Brown"... http://fmnfarm.blogspot.com/ |
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
777 Posts
Lea
TN
777 Posts |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 3:56:17 PM
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How fun it has been to read your stories! We love to name everything too. My large white passenger van is "The Great White". Our place is called "Blackberry Prairie Cottage". The name to us on our first day here when our boys were investigating their new home. My husband had lost his job in Georgia and we had to sell our first home there. We were a bit sad and had often said how we would miss our blackberry patch. To our surprise, the boys discovered an acre of blackberries. When they returned home yelling, "Mom, we have a blackberry prairie", I knew the Lord had truly granted the desire of hearts. The name was so fitting and reminds us of our blessings each time we use it.
Blessings, Lea
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot |
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