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LeslieAnne
True Blue Farmgirl
71 Posts
LeslieAnne
Shallowater
Texas
USA
71 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 30 2004 : 10:17:03 PM
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Picked up the "Handful" issue today of MaryJanesFarm Magazine... it's wonderful!!!.. one of the first things I noticed was the ad for this board... I'm so glad to find such a wonderful group of farmgirls... I grew up on a farm in the Texas Panhandle, but at the time didn't appreciate it... now I long for farmlife... right now I live in the country just outside Shallowater, Texas, a little town near Lubbock... I'm 55, single, mother of one great son, Robert, 29... he lives near Austin, Texas, with his lovely wife Belinda, & they are in the process of adopting a baby...
Even though I live in the country, it's not a farm... I'd love to have goats, chickens, & a horse... not enough room in my small yard... but I dream of someday having enough land to live the farmlife again...
Right now I work at a small local garden center... get dirt under my fingernails on a regular basis...  .. it's enjoyable work, but not what I want to do the rest of my life...
Glad to be here, & hope to get to know y'all...
LeslieAnne...westTexas |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Aug 31 2004 : 06:19:27 AM
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Welcome LeslieAnne!!! Glad you found us. Please join in our conversations too!
****Gardener, Stitcher, Spiritual Explorer and Appreciator of all Things Natural****
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb |
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LeslieAnne
True Blue Farmgirl
71 Posts
LeslieAnne
Shallowater
Texas
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2004 : 7:05:13 PM
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Thank you, Clare, for the enthusiastic welcome!!!.. I'm enjoying exploring the board... such a nice, friendly bunch of (mostly) women here... I feel like I've come home... 
LeslieAnne...westTexas |
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Sherries Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
69 Posts
Sherrie
Graham
WA
USA
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Posted - Sep 01 2004 : 7:22:24 PM
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A big hello from the Pacific Northwest, LeslieAnne.
Sherrie
"When you care enough, you make it yourself."
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Juliekay
True Blue Farmgirl
237 Posts
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Posted - Sep 02 2004 : 07:00:34 AM
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Welcome, Leslie Ann
Julie |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2004 : 08:14:18 AM
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Welcome to the family!! We are glad you are here!!
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2004 : 7:57:54 PM
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Welcome to the family, LeslieAnne. It's great to meet another "farmgirl at heart"!
farmgirl@heart
Longaberger Lover and all things antique |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Sep 02 2004 : 8:12:44 PM
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Welcome LeslieAnne! I love Texas! All those armadillos and beautiful big skies. I also love people with dirt on their hands. It sounds like you have a full life! I look forward to hearing about west Texas living!
Time Flies |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Sep 02 2004 : 8:13:57 PM
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Welcome LeslieAnne! I love Texas! All those armadillos and beautiful big skies. I also love people with dirt on their hands. It sounds like you have a full life! I look forward to hearing about west Texas living!
Time Flies |
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LeslieAnne
True Blue Farmgirl
71 Posts
LeslieAnne
Shallowater
Texas
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2004 : 6:02:07 PM
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Hey, thanks to everybody for the warm welcome... I knew I'd love it here... y'all are great!!!..
LeslieAnne...westTexas |
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sourjayne
worker bee
67 Posts
sarah
seattle
washington
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Posted - Sep 04 2004 : 6:25:04 PM
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Ditto that! You all ARE great. Although I do read your posts, I wish I had more time to sit with you. Anna and I just spent the day creating hand sewn stitches for my book. We both sewed and then I took photos. We loved how quiet it was here today with my crew gone for the weekend. We had tea and sewed. At one point Anna said she was getting light headed because I was teaching her some new little delicate stitches and in order to be exact she was holding her breath! I've taken your suggestions for the title of my book and what to put in it to heart. My editor was here from NY last week. Driving here from the airport on a Sunday night in the pouring rain she got stuck in the mud for almost two hours before a good samaritan with a big Dodge Ram wandered by to help. Her cell wouldn't work...she was in the middle of nowhere! We discussed the fact that my book is taking longer than we both thought, but she's okay with it. THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR POSTS AND FEEDBACK. I think this will probably come through as a post from Sarah (sourjayne) since I'm on her computer. Love, MaryJane
Sarah (sourjayne)
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2004 : 12:24:58 PM
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Dear MaryJane,
It is so good to read your post and know that your book is coming along. You know for sure that multiple copies will be bought by all of us here on the Farmgirl Connection. I can think of many people with whom I would like to share it as a gift.
Thank you for making us, your readers, feel at home with you and also for alowing us to be a real part of your creations, both book and magazines.
jpbluesky
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LeslieAnne
True Blue Farmgirl
71 Posts
LeslieAnne
Shallowater
Texas
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2004 : 11:55:51 AM
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How fortunate I feel to have MaryJane post on my thread!!!.. I'm still making the rounds of all the various forums, & am enjoying all of them... I'm learning a lot too... farming in some places is so different from what I grew up with... my dad's farm was very commercial & not especially "traditional"... a very successful enterprise, but probably never "fun"..
LeslieAnne...westTexas |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 07 2004 : 4:34:00 PM
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What a great idea for the book MJ. It reminded me of when my grandmother taught me to embroider. She gave me an old quilt square she has embroidered and never used in the quilt. I haveit with my first tenative stitches (chain stitch). When I got married she gave me the quilt. She said when I was little I said it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw and I'd like to have it. 20 years later she had remembered and it was my wedding present.
farmgirl@heart
Longaberger Lover and all things antique |
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