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Across the Fence: What do you see from your kitchen window? |
gafarmwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
244 Posts
Pam
Georgia
USA
244 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 10:13:01 AM
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I love to stand at the sink looking out at the barn and usually some of the animals out there. What do you see from your kitchen window?
...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference... ~Robert Frost~
Life on a Southern Farm http://georgiafarmwoman.blogspot.com |
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one_dog_per_acre
True Blue Farmgirl
1572 Posts
Trish
Sandpoint
ID
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 10:42:08 AM
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I see my birdie friends in what I think is a seviceberry tree. I have a feeder and a suet cage. I have a tiny woodpecker that visits everyday. It's amazing how much joy those birds bring me. I was thinking of getting a hummingbird feeder. There are so many here! I have really big windows w/no curtains, and birds were hitting them, so I put stained glass things up. This attracted the hummingbirds. Somehow, they never hit the glass, it's almost like they are smarter than the other birds.
Trish Farmgirl Sister #91 Make cupcakes not war! FREE TIBET! |
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
2350 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 12:16:29 PM
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Another yucky brick house As we live in the city But, you know we are building our retirement home soon I will be looking at mountains. on all sides of the house. plus in the winter, a creek ; my husbands oldest brother's house My hubby's brother that is next in line from him.( 5 boys in the family) The re done farmhouse I will be seeing wild life like deer, sometimes bob cats, maybe some black bears. We have our kitchen / dinning room in the front of the house where the living room was to go. We, hubby and I both wanted the large country kitchen/ dinning room on the front of the house. Pinkroses
www.ohkayteagirl2.blogspot.com |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 12:19:30 PM
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I don't have a kitchen window yet but I do have some lovely things to look at while I am in the kitchen. It lets me dream of some day...... : )
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
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Canadian farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Lori
Ontario
Canada
482 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 1:34:15 PM
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I see our backyard with my laundry hanging on the line, a hedge, and our cattle on the other side eating the hedge! The barn is in the background behind them.
Here's somebody who found a hole in the fence, and wanted to try out a lilac bush!
Lori
Farmgirl Sister #183 |
Edited by - Canadian farmgirl on May 30 2008 2:25:13 PM |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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handyam
True Blue Farmgirl
394 Posts
Ada Mae
Greensburg
KY.
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 1:47:54 PM
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I see a freshly cut hay field that has been raked into windrows. I can also smell the wonderful aroma of the hay. Today is a beautiful day in central Kentucky. The sky is clear, there is a gently breeze, the birds are singing and the rooster is crowing (he crows all day). This day couldn't be any better!!!!
www.adasadorableaprons.blogspot.com
This is the day that the Lord has made. |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 1:49:53 PM
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I see a Rose of Sharon (my nemesis) but it's pretty and greening up nicely. It's the only one I've allowed to stay on that side of the house and it's monstrous!!! Other than that, the privacy fence behind it with the lattice work. Pretty view.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"... NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian. http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
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gafarmwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
244 Posts
Pam
Georgia
USA
244 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 2:18:03 PM
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I think it is wonderful we can share our views of what we see and feel from one coast to another and even other countries. Please, keep them coming. This is great!
...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference... ~Robert Frost~
Life on a Southern Farm http://georgiafarmwoman.blogspot.com |
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Bridge
True Blue Farmgirl
814 Posts
Bridgette
Southern
Indiana
USA
814 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 2:49:06 PM
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I see the door to the garage and a swing usually with silly kitties sittin' in it or on it, sometimes they try to climb on top to see me when I am washing dishes :)
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La Patite Ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
623 Posts
Jenn
CA
USA
623 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 3:43:15 PM
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I love looking out my kitchen window - past the patio I see my new picket fence and the flowerbed that still needs to be filled in. Beyond the fence is our little barn. Usually the chickens are outside scratching in the dirt. We have lots of birds this time of year also and it's fun to watch them swooping around. |
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Sagewood
True Blue Farmgirl
106 Posts
South Carolina
106 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 3:47:28 PM
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Depending on how far I bend one way or the other, I can see the chicken coop and the garden (with my glasses on!), the brick patio with the plants and part of the clothes line! Now, like I said, that's depending on how energentic and limber I want to get bending one way or the other! LOL
Sage, The Hedgewife Are you a Hedgewife? http://hedgewife.blogspot.com/ Hiding in the broom closet. http://sagewoodfarm.blogspot.com/
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NikkiSAllen
Farmgirl in Training
32 Posts
Nikki
Aurora
IN
USA
32 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 4:00:05 PM
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I see our barn and Wendell the Wonder Horse! He's usually trying to find a way to eat the grass in our yard through the fence, because, of course, the grass is both greener AND tastier on the other side! Ha-ha!! Beyond him is our winter pasture, and up the hill beyond that is our late summer pasture and our ancient apple orchard that was planted by another farm family who came before us here.
Nikki Farmgirl Sister #205 |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 4:34:53 PM
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Outside of my kitchen window is an old screen door attached to the side of the house, birdhouses, Jess's hose wreath that she sent me and the bedspring arbor, from which hangs my bird feeders. I can also see the side of my parent's house. Thank goodness it's not the side my dad suns himself on! That is something no one needs to see.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister # 18 :)
Wherever you go, there you are.
www.madrekarin.blogspot.com www.madrekarin.etsy.com |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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gafarmwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
244 Posts
Pam
Georgia
USA
244 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 4:55:47 PM
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It looked just beautiful, Mary Beth.
...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference... ~Robert Frost~
Life on a Southern Farm http://georgiafarmwoman.blogspot.com |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 8:41:14 PM
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I see our hay field and the nieghbor's house, (but it's a fair distance away). Some days I see my pot bellied pig, "Opal," munching on the clover or sunning her fat pink self in the grass. I also see Sherman's kennel. (my husband's lab) Sometimes Opal comes over and teases him. It's pretty funny to watch. In the evenings I can see the sunset on the hills several miles away. It's just breathtaking!
Oh, and Karin, the comment about your dad? TOO FUNNY!!!! I almost fell out of my chair laughing! Yes, some things are never meant for human eyes to see. Like my husband's butt crack every time he bends over!! (HA! HA! HA!)~~~ Tracy |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2008 : 03:39:12 AM
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We have a camilla bush outside the window, so I sometimes see humming birds.
The kitchen overlooks one field, so I can watch the crops grow and occasionally see hubby on the tractor , or chickens dust bathing.
I can also see whose coming down the road to visit |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2008 : 08:24:16 AM
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I see our shade garden with hostas and bleeding hearts,primroses and right now violets and lily of the valley, also a beautiful plant my daughter got me for mothers day a feew years back it is white and green varigated with heart shaped leaves and tiny bright blue flowers. I see our large bird feeder and suet for the woodpeckers, usually packed with visitors, including our naughty but friendly squirrels. The bird bath is out there too. Plus all back ground trees and hedgerow that leads into our 6 acre field. Also our back deck and all the flower boxes and container gardens. I really enjoy it.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2008 : 09:34:29 AM
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I see my long-way-to-go-before-it's-finished herb garden with 1 Rosa hazelnut, 1 Contorted hazelnut and a clump of aspen at the very end of it. Beyond that I can see a few of my flower beds in the front yard, Main St and the neighbor across the street who has nothing but dirt for their front yard and park their vehicles on it:(
When I finish bordering my herb garden with forsythia, I won't have to look at the street or the neighbor's icky yard anymore.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/ My Website: http://www.freewebs.com/lisamariesbasketry/index.htm |
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QueenofQuiteAlot
True Blue Farmgirl
865 Posts
Dalyn
Milk 'n Honey Ranch
Central, WA
USA
865 Posts |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2008 : 12:04:18 PM
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I love the chickens on your windowsill, Pam, and the view is great too. I see my garden shed, my old well which has a huge stone and then a big stone covering the hole and the small field that leads up to 40 acres of hayfield. I have a quaking aspen out back that I love to watch when I do dishes, there is something so soothing about the way the leaves quiver in the breeze . I can see the old wooden water tower in the big field and my old Dolgo crabapple/ It got pounded pretty badly in the last hurricane we had. It is just such a wonderful old tree. It is even sporting a few blossoms this year
How nice to look out a window and find a visiting cow. My neighbors had cows for years and the view out the front kitchen windows was always a big soggy field full of Holsteins, but now it is just a big field and evergreens in the back, hiding the giant pond out back of the farmhouse and barn.
I loved seeing the horses too, my neighbors on one side have lots of horses and goats, but I can't see much of their field from my house, the trees on the other side of my pond have really shot up.
Whoops, didn't mean to blather on and on,,,,,Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan http://moodranch.blogspot.com http://domesticnonsense.etsy.com |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2008 : 1:31:31 PM
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I love my kitchen window. Looking out it, I can compleatly forget that I am in town. First I look out at my little container garden on the porch and then over the rail to a tree lined creek bottom. I can sit there and watch birds and squirls and just generaly unwind.
What we write today slipped into our souls some other day when we were alone and doing nothing. -Brenda Ueland
http://quilandneedle.blogspot.com/
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1403 Posts |
Posted - May 30 2008 : 2:46:57 PM
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I see my vegetable garden and I get to watch it grow and grow. Picked strawberries today, yum yum. I can also see my dog's kennel. I want to do something to sparkle it up though. I also have a washtub outside the kitchen window that I have leaf lettuce and bush cucumbers growing in. Lettuce is just about ready for picking.
I want to say that I really love the photo of the horses. I think I would not mind having my kitchen look out on that!
Betty |
Edited by - Betty J. on May 30 2008 2:48:10 PM |
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