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Artsy Chic
Farmgirl in Training
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Marianne
Anchorage
Alaska
USA
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 Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 08:37:40 AM
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Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to this site. I'm a city farm girl,(wish I had 20 acres and could be a real farm girl) I want to have some backyard chickens next spring. I have a large yard that I'm slowly filling up with a garden, flowers, experimental fruit trees! I love animals...I have two kitties and a wonderful dog. I'm a mom and a wife :). I've had fun being a part of MaryJanes mail art group and now a "secret farmgirl" group. I just love the atmosphere here and such a large group of supportive friends. Thanks for letting me jion in on the fun!
Marianne
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 08:44:38 AM
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Welcome Marianne. I have been to Anchorage, I have a cousin that lives there and his Wife is a Doctor Rick and Joy Golden. Its a Beautiful city.
NANCY JO
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 09:31:55 AM
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Marianne,
Welcome, we are so thrilled you are here.
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
http://farmchicksfarm.blogspot.com/
Mavens are "information specialists", or "people we rely upon to connect us with new information."[6] They accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 11:40:03 AM
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Hello Marianne......... I'm on the top of the mountain in Anchorage.... I've been here a long time, shoutin a hello to you.
I've just harvested all my himalayan poppy seeds, would you like some? jo
"life is drab without a lab"
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Artsy Chic
Farmgirl in Training
16 Posts
Marianne
Anchorage
Alaska
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 12:16:34 PM
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Hi everybody!! What a warm welcome!
How do you like all this fresh snow Jo? I guess I'm ready. Trick or treating in snow gear I suppose! What's new . ;) It looks like you got to your poppies just in time! Thanks for the offer, but I have a nice grouping of those beauties myself.
Thanks for the warm welcome girls! I'll be checking in often! :)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4745 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4745 Posts |
Posted - Oct 15 2008 : 6:38:52 PM
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Welcome Marianne! I'm sure you'll love it here. We have lots of Alaskan farmgirls too, as you are already discovering. Glad you joined up!
Dawn in IL |
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
1360 Posts
Laurie
Montrose
CO
1360 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 06:59:47 AM
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Welcome aboard. My dad lives up in Seward. Spent several summers there myself working the canneries during college. What a beautiful place.
Best Growing |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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Ms.Lilly
True Blue Farmgirl
826 Posts
Lillian
Scotts Mills
OR
USA
826 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 08:09:41 AM
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Welcome Marianne! My DH is still trying to convince me to move to Alaska, who knows maybe someday we'll be "neighbors". How is gardening in Anchorage? Glad you are here.
Lillian |
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Artsy Chic
Farmgirl in Training
16 Posts
Marianne
Anchorage
Alaska
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 08:45:11 AM
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Hi Laurie, Seward is very pretty! Mountains meet the water, I've grown up here but I still am amased at how beautiful it is. I never did the fish canneries, but I had some friends work them in their college days, like you. :) I love the old "main" street in Seward. Icecream and pizza!
Have a good one! Thanks for the welcome :)
Marianne
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
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Artsy Chic
Farmgirl in Training
16 Posts
Marianne
Anchorage
Alaska
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 09:01:13 AM
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Hi Lillian, gardening up here is non-stop in the summer. The sun's out nearly around the clock in the summer. It doesn't always get that warm, but when the sun is working it's magic, things grow! Now, getting plants to winter over is a skill I'm still working on. The winter kills a lot of things up here. I love roses and liked planting whatever I could get my hands on, but not everything lived to see another summer. :)
There are people up here with beautiful gardens! Big ones! I have a neighbor down the road (my son's firstgrade teacher) He's from England and is a true master! Take a look at his website! I can't believe it my self sometimes!
http://home.gci.net/~goodgame/
Have a good one1 Marianne
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein |
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
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vintagetag
Farmgirl in Training
22 Posts
Linda
Cheyenne
WY
USA
22 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 5:15:28 PM
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Welcome Marianne!
I lived in Valdez for all most a year just after the big earthquake - Loved it (Alaska not the quake)! I'm fairly new, too, and am learning much from the sisters who have been here for ahwil.
Linda
Cheyenne, WY
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Oct 16 2008 : 7:38:13 PM
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Welcome from Georgia, Marianne! I'll be pretty near you next month.
Glad you're here. Have fun.
Kris |
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
2164 Posts
Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 05:57:03 AM
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Hi Marianne we are so pleased you are joining us. It is an absolutly wonderful group of farmgirls here.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
MJ's Heirloom Mavens Badgebadger
MJ's Heirloom Mavens Bookclub Coordinator
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Oct 19 2008 : 9:50:18 PM
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Hi Marianne,
It sure had been fun reading and wow, your neighbor's garden was something. I think I would be over picking his brain a lot for finding out ways to do things in Alaska.
I bet you love where you live as well.
My aunt and uncle moved up there again, shoot will have to find out where, I thought it was somewhere around Seward.
I am sure glad that you are here, welcome to the forum.
Carol Sue
Farmgirl #39
www.Quitemoments.blogspot.com |
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Artsy Chic
Farmgirl in Training
16 Posts
Marianne
Anchorage
Alaska
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - Oct 22 2008 : 12:56:40 PM
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Hi all! Thank you again for the warm welcome. Carol sue, you are right, I need to get a little advise from my neighbor! Especially on roses. Right now I have two families of moose competing for my two largest shrub rose bushes! They aren't supposed to like much but bark and tree branches, but their taste in the city of Anchorage has been changing. They munch on my roses, lilacs mayday trees, cotoneaster shrubs. We have a fence protecting my two apple trees, but the gate was left open overnight and it must have been an "all you can eat buffet" of apples for one of them! Cause the next morning they were bare. Those must have tasted soo good! (compared to their regular diet)
Linda, I haven't been to Valdez, but I have heard that it is amazing!! And that earthquake you got to experience "the big one" as we respectfully refer to it, was a history maker. I wasn't here for that one(1964). I was an idea on my parents mind right about then ;) but we have had a few doozies in the past 20 years. They are fun, when they're over :) I've heard stories about the road looking like a blanket being shaken out. WOW ... I bet the farmgirls in California could tell some earthquake stories too!
Marianne :)
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