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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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 Posted - Apr 24 2008 : 3:49:34 PM
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We are not throw-away type minded women, we are self sufficient and bounce back type women. No matter what comes, we'll all be standing with our aprons on saying "What's next ?"  We are great! Alee said it. And the world isn't so doomed. Sun still rises and crickets still chirp. We'll all be ok , it's just gonna take tightening our apron strings and using some elbow grease and horse sense!
Annika
Farmgirl sister #13
Mud Hen Queen
http://innermountainmudhens.wordpress.com/
http://panzymoon.wordpress.com/
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Apr 24 2008 : 6:45:20 PM
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Ok.... So I have been sick today... so reading posts but not really writing any... Here is my question...girlfriends to girlfriends.... what would be the TOP 5 List you would give to each other for making choices to conserve, or to be more earth friendly? Here is the list I made this year:
1). Buy more from bulk bins - (using less packaging) & Invested in re-usable bags for shopping
2). Set the heat in the house lower - winter 66- watch the lights in the house
3). Walk/ride bike more places
4). Shop Local as much as possible
5). Stopped buying bottled water & bought a home system
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - Apr 24 2008 : 9:32:22 PM
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I agree with leading by example - I have been doing so since 1976 when I started the first ever ECO club in High School. I have spent my adult life teaching alternative ways to just about everything I do but it does stick in my craw when I wake up in the morning to see the parade of Hummers coming from my neighbor's McMansion which is everyday lite up like a christmas tree and they put in Kentucky Bluegrass turf so he could practice his golf game when he is home only one week out of four - yet I am recyling my gray water, never use any types of chemicals on my farm, raise me animals completely organic and grass fed while trying to get neighbors to just cut back a little
and their response is why do they have to give up anything? I am usually very upbeat and have over come great odds to be here - I just wished I was not having to pay the piper for other folks mistakes. Anytime I get down I just go outside and hug my furry family members, go to the spinning wheel and create something wonderful and remind myself the only footsteps I am in charge of is my own..... My path is true, rocks and all..
If you have a chance I have posted new info on my blog today - Hugs all
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.blogspot.com
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Apr 25 2008 : 12:33:52 AM
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ha meg .. sounds like 'i' would be pretty successful at NaNoWriMo .. i sure love to write! do you belong to this?
tell us more about it!
AND .. thanks for the info about Tommy Douglas. I adimire immensely people who see a problem that bothers them .. and goes out and makes a difference.
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Apr 25 2008 : 08:57:32 AM
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Check it out Frannie - http://nanowrimo.org The goal is to write a 50 000 word novel in the month of November. It's a totally fun and wild time- and there are about 100 000 other novelists writing along and supporting each other along the way. It also raises funds to build libraries in third world and developing countries, and gets young writers programs into schools in the US.
"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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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Apr 25 2008 : 09:59:44 AM
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i've bookmarked the writing site and will go back and visit when i can 'sit a spell' .. i'm not a NOVEL writer .. but love memoirs and such .. is there a place for that type of writing in this program .. i'm guessing it's strictly NOVELS .. that might be fun to try in my NEXT lifetime. thanks meg!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Apr 25 2008 : 7:53:42 PM
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Grace, what beautiful musings.
And Heather, my little sister lost her home in Hurricane Katrina and I cannot even begin to tell you the horrors she went through! It's been over 2 years now and I remember very well pulling a u-haul up to her home in New Orleans at 10 p.m. and within 5 minutes being met by the National Guard and their rifles. My God it was scary. And yet as soon as they knew we weren't there to harm anyone, they came over to my sister and wished her good luck and God speed. It was a defining, surreal moment.
She was lucky. She had a place to go and family that loved her. She received little help from FEMA and close to none from the Red Cross.
She's a animal lover and we came across country with whatever we could salvage in a u-haul and a little station wagon holding 3 dogs and 4 cats. All of them survived. We got through 10 states in 11 days. Thank God for the KOA's! LOL!
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Apr 25 2008 : 10:47:42 PM
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Linda, my husband has a bandsaw mill and sometimes sells lumber, When the Katrina hit and work began he was told to sell it down south that he could get any price he wanted for it , No deal with my husband, Can you believe any one wanting to make money on someones bad luck, So sorry about your sister
Farm Girl #96
http://www.picturetrail.com/misswilmasplace
http://misswilma.blogspot.com/ |
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Linder
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Linda
Lake Forest
IL
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Apr 26 2008 : 07:19:30 AM
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Even worse Miss Wilma, I was talking to a man who wanted to date me at the time and he was flying down there with cash in his pocket and buying the deeds to peoples home's outright for a fraction of what they were worth. He was completely capitalizing off of others misfortune. He then turned around and double the price of the homes and sold them to the govt. Jerk. Obviously we never went out.
Thanks for the good wishes, Allison is FINALLY doing really well. Seems over the past month or so she's turned around. It's been tough.
Do you know that there are still areas that aren't functioning down there? It just my opinion but it should be a huge source of shame for the powers that be that americans were not and still are not receiving the aid and assistance that they should. Ugh.
I'm just thrilled that we could do our part. And I love people like Brad Pitt who saw a need and just rallied the troops and went to work. He's making a big difference in helping put people's lives back together!
We knew he wasn't just another pretty face, right?!
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" |
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