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Dusky Beauty
True Blue Farmgirl
1108 Posts
Jen
Tonopah
AZ
USA
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 Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 1:48:10 PM
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I love looking at all the farmgirl's blogs and seeing all the lovely farm houses and green rolling hills and hardwood trees. I can't wait when it's my turn to move back east!
I know I'm in a fairly enviable spot myself leasing this acreage 40 minutes west of Phoenix, but there are days when I would just KILL to enjoy a lazy rainy day once a month, and I hate feeling like I'm "borrowing" my landlord's house.
If I owned I'd be constantly busy tweaking, decorating, painting, landscaping and improving, but I know that the day will come when I will have to leave behind everything we do as a gift to the next person to live here.
Plus, I hate dust and cactus.
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
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woolgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
901 Posts
Elizabeth
Great Lakes
IL
USA
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Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 2:55:54 PM
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I feel the same way. My husband is in the military, and right now we live in base housing. I know my day will come where I can have my own bit of farm, but right now we are where we are.
Liz
Farmgirl #1947 |
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Heartbroken farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
604 Posts
Annette
rio vista
Ca
USA
604 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 08:45:25 AM
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Jen, your dreams will be realized one day, and think of how much sweeter the fruition will be, after the waiting, working, and dreaming!! Hope the day comes sooner than you think! Lotsa hugs to you!
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
www.broken908.blogspot.com
http://forums.familyfriendpoems.com/broken908
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."-Dean William Ralph Inge |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 12:48:23 PM
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Jen - even if you own a home we tweek, paint, landscape and such only to find a change has to be made or we want a change so we leave all we have done behind and the next person is better off from our efforts. It is hard sometimes to enjoy the things we have in front of us because we are looking ahead but the joy in life just might be within those cactus and dust. I remind myself to stop looking at all that I don't have and give thanks for all that is in front of me. By the way when you own that house you own all the problems that come with it which at times can be crushing. I have faith that your dreams will come true but maybe the place you are in is trying to teach you something wonderful. I wish you all the best in reaching your dreams.
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
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.artfire.com
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 2:09:59 PM
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Jen you are welcome to come play farm at my house. I'll let you mow all day! You'll get your farm one day. For now you have to grow where you are planted. Grace is right, we spent 2 years wanting to move where we are and what happened? We went on vacation and saw someplace prettier.
~FarmDream is Farmgirl Sister #3069
Live Today, Cherish Yesterday, Dream Tomorrow
http://naturaljulie.etsy.com
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Dusky Beauty
True Blue Farmgirl
1108 Posts
Jen
Tonopah
AZ
USA
1108 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2011 : 3:11:07 PM
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Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have my large kitchen, the back yard, the garden I planted, the trees and the swimming pool, but I'm a bit limited by how much I can really spread my wings.
I can plant veggies all day every day, and that's fine, but I wonder how many years I'll be able to enjoy the strawberry patch I'm planning, or if I will live here long enough to get a lemon off of the tree I planted.
Nothing is really certain until the month of august, year by year when I renew my 1 year lease (she won't let me sign for more than one at a time) and July is full of panic, when I buzz through the house like a manic bee, scrubbing every visible surface by hand, fixing every broken piece of moulding, patching every spot where the thin sheet rock walls have holes from a door opening too fast and hard, and having a panic attack when one of the dogs chews up a corner of the carpet.
My landlord is very emotionally attached to this house, as it's where her kids grew up, so it's of the utmost importance that whoever lives here takes exceptionally good care of it.
I really long for the day when a kid can spill nail polish on the floor, and I can just shrug and say "eh, kids will be kids" without worrying that it will somehow jeopardize my lease. That, and the ability not to have to ask anyone's permission to paint over the hideous orange living room.
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
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