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*Farmgirl Barter™:  How Old would you be if you didn't know  |
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
1270 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 09:32:30 AM
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 09:39:12 AM
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Very interesting question, Diane! I've often thought about that myself and the hubs and I have discussed it. I'll be turning 40 in a couple of weeks, but I swear I don't feel like that could possibly be right. Even when I get slammed up side the head that my baby girl is 17! It really throws me for a loop when I consider that when my mother was my age she was about to be a grandmother and that when my grandmother was my age, she was a grandmother twice over!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 09:42:08 AM
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OMG! Now you're gonna think I'm fudging my age, but I won't be turning 40, I'll be 39!! I guess I've just been too pre-occupied with the big 4-0! Maybe I should be feeling much older if I can't even keep my own age straight!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 10:11:22 AM
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Most of the time time I feel (and think of myself as) about 35. That would be weird though, since oldest son is 31 now! I am really 50. Like Sherri said though, most mornings I don't wake up feeling younger...older for sure. I need an hour to get to feeling like myself.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 10:51:45 AM
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I am 52. At the moment emotionally I feel 82, but physically 32 :)
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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Beverly Gill
True Blue Farmgirl
1114 Posts
Beverly
Marlborough
USA
1114 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 11:31:31 AM
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I turned 60 last year---and gals I got to say it wasn't pretty....rough year for me. But I usually feel like 40 particularly when I get into physical work. I absolutely love working hard outside.... using that weed wacker and sawing ,digging the dirt....I get a real farm gal high.
Now if it would just stop raining....the mold and mosquitoes....whoa
Beverly----always fighting the age factor  |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
4208 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 2:07:38 PM
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shoot,Im not very old but here lately, If I was someone else and had to guess my poor brains would tell me I was in my 90s! lol
Though on a good day I don't feel any different than I did at 18 ;)
hugs
Jessie
Farmgirl Sister #235
"You are my strength when I am weak. You are the treasure that I seek. You are my all in all. Seeking You as a precious jewel; Lord, to give up I'd be a fool. You are my all in all."
Stop by my blog for a visit www.messiejessie2.blogspot.com |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 2:18:21 PM
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I am about to turn 60 on the 4th. And all week, age related topics have been coming to me from different directions, as this one has! I can remember with great clarity how it felt to be 25, and cute and energetic. Am I wiser? Hm......perhaps. But so glad to be 60 and still fairly active, abd in no great pain. I can still lift a 25 pound grandchildren and carry her!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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lilwing
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Brooke
Fulshear
Texas
USA
1403 Posts |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 5:14:09 PM
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I would say about 21 (I am ALMOST 31). I relate so well with just-graduated-college age kids. There are a few girls who graduated from the high school I teach at a few years ago and we are really great friends now. It was really neat when we realized that we could actually be friends and it wasnt weird. It took them getting through college before we really had stuff in common but now that they are married too its a lot of fun. Plus sometimes I still get carded when I by alcohol and even got carded buying a lotto ticket recently! I love when that happens.
Farmgirl Sister #17
Blog
www.willowtreecreek.wordpress.com
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 5:39:46 PM
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I say about 24-25...I am 35...well...almost... ; ) I was told the other day I didn't look a day over 21..that was nice.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 11:07:42 AM
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I have to agree with Sherri...It depends on the time of day. I'm 43 and have always looked at each milestone with anticipation. I can't stop getting older, so I might as well embrace it and look at it as an adventure!
Just a funny "aside" story. On my 29th birthday, one of my colleagues brought me a cake. Anothe colleague walked in and said, "Oh, Happy Birthday. How old are you?" I said, "29" She said, "No, REALLY, how old are you?" I said, "TWENTY-NINE!" 
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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Tammyb
True Blue Farmgirl
511 Posts
Tammy
Bluffton
Ohio
USA
511 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 1:57:24 PM
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What a question !! I agree depends on the time of day and what I've been doing :0
Garden days around 60 !! my hands tend to hurt after weeding ... but the rest of the time somewhere in my 30's . But I'm really 48 and loving it
Tammyb
Sisterchick #541 |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9325 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 5:07:04 PM
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I have talked about this with my mom and she is 82 and most days feels it. But she says she still thinks about herself the way she did at 18. I do the same though I am 47. Somedays I feel older but most I don't. I have more energy when the little ones are around though sometimes I can't keep up with them. I am happy to be a young grandmom though because I can do more with them now.
Denise
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
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mellaisbella
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
melanie
living on Anne of Green
Gables land
Canada
1862 Posts |
Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 07:32:46 AM
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I am 37 but most days feel like I am 25.....I find it hard to dress my age or act my age, but then again, don't really think too much about it:)
"we must be the change we wish to see in the world"
farmgal #150 |
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Tidy Aprons
True Blue Farmgirl
99 Posts
Oney Farmgirl #638
Colorado
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 08:00:05 AM
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I asked my husband your question. Know what he said?
"I'm 23 but I have no idea why I have this gut and gray hair."
ROFLOL!
He's only 43...and I'm 41. I feel 23 too but a lot more sure of myself.
~Oney~
"There's something a little holy in taking care of the places we inhabit, in summoning sheen. And there's a power in watching over our spaces, the rooms we move within, the sets where our life stories unfold." ~Lori Hall Steele |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4737 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4737 Posts |
Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 09:15:40 AM
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Having just turned 49, I have to say I feel like 30!
Dawn in IL |
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Cabinprincess
True Blue Farmgirl
682 Posts
Melody June
Athens
TX
USA
682 Posts |
Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 07:34:18 AM
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I was just talking about this with my very best girlfriend of 49 years. I am 53 and am very active and love working outside. Inside I feel about 36 and don't think of my real age. The other day when I went to swing up into the bed of the truck to unload some dirt, my body just stood there. My mind asked "what in the world do you think your going to do?" I replied "jump into the truck bed!" NO YOU ARE NOT! You will step on the bumper and STEP into the bed from now on. LOL I never knew at some point in life my BUM would get to take over and boss me around. Whoooohaaahaaa
God's gift to you are your talents, your gift to Him is how you use them. |
Edited by - Cabinprincess on Jul 04 2009 3:28:04 PM |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 2:06:01 PM
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That is so funny, Melody. I have to do that alot now, too. I think I can do things like I did years ago, but now I do not want to get hurt! It hurts much worse now when I fall and I don't like falling. I fell last week in the laundry room standing on a bucket (because my step stool is out in the garden to sit on while I pick beans!) to check my electric fence box. I fell hard and everything came down with me, too. I still have a big knot on my right leg. We need to be more careful!
I am 51 now but most of the time I feel maybe 30. I know I act like I'm 25. Somtimes people I have never met can't believe I have grandkids. But I do. Right now my hands feel 85. i pulled weeds yesterday and trimmed some goat feet.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1403 Posts |
Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 4:06:31 PM
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My head says I'm 18, but my body knows better, especially my left knee.
Betty in Pasco |
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luvnlife
True Blue Farmgirl
82 Posts
Michele
Quincy
WA
USA
82 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2009 : 9:09:41 PM
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As I read these, I wonder why is it that we all seem to think we're younger than we really are until some outside influence reminds us of our true age? Wouldn't be fun if we could be as children and act the way we felt in that particular moment, instead of acting our age. We could learn a lot from watching the wiseness of children.
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money~Havighurst
Farmgirl Sister #306 :)
www.trooperchelly.blogspot.com |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3317 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3317 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 12:03:46 PM
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I think that when I was 29 I felt the strongest and most secure in the way I felt about myself and my life. I am going to be 52 next month but, I like to try to emulate what I was like at 29....and besides I looked pretty good at that age as well!! But, I think the strength and the self confidence "peaked" at that age. Now I am old and CYNICAL! HA!
Melody
Farmgirl #525
http://melodynotes-melodynotes.blogspot.com
www.lemonverbenasoap.etsy.com |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3317 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3317 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 12:06:12 PM
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Michelle....sometimes when I see the "pure joy" on the face of a 3 or 4 year old and it makes me smile from ear to ear. I would love to be able to jump up and down with the carefree abandon of a 4-year old. And when they are mad they SHOW it!  No worries about what the person next to you would think if you threw a little tizzy fit in the middle of a mall huh? What fun!!
Melody
Farmgirl #525
http://melodynotes-melodynotes.blogspot.com
www.lemonverbenasoap.etsy.com |
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