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Across the Fence:  You know you've gone Farmgirl when...  |
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StrawHouseRanch
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Paula
Holt
Missouri
USA
1044 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 08 2011 : 08:23:44 AM
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Barn envy!! I am nuts about barns...I don't even notice the houses as we drive along, I just see the barns...old, new, fancy, plain. I love them all.
Paula
Farmgirl Sister #3090
A Beehive is the ultimate Home Sweet Home
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Dusky Beauty
True Blue Farmgirl
1108 Posts
Jen
Tonopah
AZ
USA
1108 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2011 : 08:51:40 AM
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OH ok, I get you AJ. I lived in Winnemucca, so I know what you mean about scrub brush.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"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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kimswhimsy
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
Kim
Rutherfordton
NC
USA
3 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2011 : 09:02:55 AM
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camiesmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Anne Jeannette
Stagecoach
NV
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2011 : 8:54:33 PM
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Jen, I actually live in Stagecoach and the only trees around are those people have planted. Was originally a native of CA but moved here in '93. First thought of Carson City as a little hick town. Now I live 35 minutes fron there in the middle of nowhere and love the peace and quite. I live on 2 1/2 achres of dirt. But I do have plans!
A.J.
Work is love made visable. ~ TKahlil Gibran |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2011 : 07:48:42 AM
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When I buy my NEW "dress up" cloths at the farm store or Cabela's.
Belle |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2011 : 11:04:09 PM
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I knew I was a F.G. when....
*When I hit the brakes to ask my 'down the road' neighbor if I can bring the pick-up over for another load of Alpaca poo....
*When I get giddy at the thought of only having 4 more payments left on our tractor...
*When I start dreaming of my next pick-up truck....
oh how the list goes on & on! lol!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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NancyM
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Nancy
Fall City
WA
113 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2011 : 5:33:20 PM
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When your refrigerator carries home canned pickles, jam and pasta sauce....plus goat vaccines.
Nancy
Farmgirl Sister #159 |
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MelodyRose
Farmgirl in Training
32 Posts
Melody
Hallsville
Missouri
USA
32 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2011 : 9:20:05 PM
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...my friends told me that if they needed to go into survival mode, they were coming to my house. And then they did, during the last blizzard in Iowa.
...I look at nearly everything in stores, be it clothing, food items, home items, or toiletries, and my very first thought every single time is, "I could make that for less."
...nobody in my house pays for a haircut (or other professional grooming, for that matter).
...another "earth mother" called out here!
...I got even cheaper than the thrift store and started to prefer to shop at home first and almost always.
...cloth diapering, breast feeding, and making my own baby food turned into homemaking almost everything.
...the cash envelope in our budgeting system for restaurants is always untouched, but the garden budget is always spent.
...one of the first tasks to tackle when we moved to our new house in the spring was finding a manure source for the garden.
...the thing we think about the most concerning our last house is how good the berries must be doing in the garden right about now.
www.aquietlittlelife.blogspot.com
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
4928 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 06:04:26 AM
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....after we bought our first farm truck.
....after I drove the pickup an hour to have our very first meat chickens butchered.
....after I made jelly using Queen Anne's Lace flowers.
....after I made dandelion root coffee and jelly.
....after we kept the baby kid goat inside several nights and bottle fed her, and let her walk around inside.
....after my husband went to work and pulled straw out of his pocket and his co-workers asked if he was sleeping with the chickens - ha ha ha!
...after I pulled hay out of my washing machine - ha ha ha!
....after I have been working in the garden, hair in braids and tied up with a bandanna, and still go to the store that way (and not care).
I've always been a thrifty kind of farmgirl - got it from my Dad's side of the family.
Farmgirl #800
http://pioneerwomanatheart.blogspot.com/
http://scrapreusedandrecycledartprojects.blogspot.com/
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goneriding
True Blue Farmgirl
1599 Posts
Winona
Central Oregon
USA
1599 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 1:06:24 PM
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When I'm standing in the store line and I'm looking at/holding horse magazines and others are holding gossip mags.
When I buy men's clothes cuz they are made better and hold up longer for work.
When I speak shortcut "horsetalk" to city folk and don't notice their question marks above their heads.
I leave the keys to our pickup in the ignition, with windows down/doors unlocked, and don't think a thing of it.
When I speak pretty bluntly because there is a job to do and do it, I will.
Cry when I find a little baby bird who died.
Can pretty much hold my own with most guys.
For some 'venting'-type of entertainment, please read my blog, http://lostadventuresintrucking.blogspot.com . Now with pictures!!
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HeirloomMomma
Farmgirl in Training
38 Posts
Linda
PA
USA
38 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 4:58:48 PM
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...when I stop to inhale the sweet scent of freshly mown hay.
...when I can't wait to show our grandsons the new baby barn kittens.
...when I harvest our entire supper from our garden.
...when we raise/grow/produce our own eggs, milk, beef, chicken, vegetables and herbs.
...when our date night is going to a county barn meeting/dinner!
...when the post office calls to say "come get this package, it's PEEPING"!!! :)
http://hoovershomesteadhappenings.blogspot.com
"Leap and the net will appear." |
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Prairie Gypsy
True Blue Farmgirl
823 Posts
Tammy
Wolford
North Dakota
USA
823 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 8:29:07 PM
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* I prefer shopping at Tractor Supply store over going to the mall and the mall is closer
* yesterday at a BBQ I took some of my bread and butter pickles and watermelon rine pickles -someone asked who was showing off bringing home canned pickles
* I love harvest time watching my cupboards fill up with home canned goodness
* I have a major case of land/farm/ranch envy
* I badgered my fiance until I got a clothesline put up
* I've started taking my lunch in mason jars now instead of rubbermaid containers and have a mason jar of tea or lemonade in my bag too
* I have truck envy
* I don't have any fashion magazine subscription, but make sure I keep my MFJ, Grit, and Mother Earth News up-to-date along with a couple crafting and food magazines
* my preferred tv watching is do-it-yourself type, cooking or shows like The Waltons
* I consider it a fun day to go watch a mini-tractor pull
Farmgirl Sister # 2363
http://twilightburrough.blogspot.com/
Warren, MI
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PicketFence
Farmgirl in Training
13 Posts
Arline
Walla Walla
Washington
USA
13 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 11:10:14 PM
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I've been a "earth mother" for years. Always odd about things. Like simple clothes,not much into glitz and glam. Fresh-ground whole wheat flour transformed into homemade bread. Cooking from scratch, shopping the outside aisles. Old ratty towels being cut up and serged for perfect cleaning rags. Home birth, home school, stay-at-home mom, granola, gardening, putting food up... I thought I was just an odd duck. AND THEN...
I found a copy of MJF magazine at the place I go to knit with friends on Wed. night!! OHMYWORD!!!! I'm NOT weird! I'm NOT odd (okay, maybe I shouldn't stretch this too far! ;-) ) I'm a FARMGIRL!!!
It's like coming home. All this fits like a good ol' pair of blue jeans and my beloved Danskos. I'm SO here! |
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sunshine7
Farmgirl in Training
25 Posts
nikki
Northern
wyoming
USA
25 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2011 : 3:55:35 PM
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I'm a farmgirl.. and didn't know it too!!!
I'm a farmgirl because....
.. I tell the dentist that my newest thing I'm doing is raising milk cows!
... I sit on my hill watching the sunset and my 4 month old calf starts licking my face, while a rainbow is directly in front of me, and I think I am at the center of the Universe.
... Because, like someone else said, and I laughed my boots off, I mow around the wildflowers in the yard.
...Because Canning time is better than Christmas.
......Because I let my kids adopt a tomato caterpillar, and they name him "Sausage" and I am the one that's sad when they let him be free to make his cocoon.
... Because eating out is a joke, when cookbooks from 3 generations of women in the family are sitting on my hutch, and I am looking at the pistachio colored mixer on the counter with affection.
Overall, it is wonderful to know I am a farmgirl and I think embracing that is so fun! |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
2045 Posts |
Posted - Jul 20 2011 : 8:09:34 PM
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Originally posted by StrawHouseRanch
...when I go to my IT job at the bank with suntan lines around my wrists.
...when I take days off from work to be there when the hay arrives.
...when I mow around that stray wildflower growing in the middle of the yard.
...when I can hear my bees buzzing in the blooms as I walk down the driveway.
...when my chores include scooping the dry lot and the chicken coop, trimming hooves and grooming manes, weeding gardens and watering plants.
Paula
Farmgirl Sister #3090
A Beehive is the ultimate Home Sweet Home
I wish I had a way to "LIKE" this.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
Visit my blog at http://brightmeadowfarms.blogspot.com ,web site store at http://www.watkinsonline.com/fish or my homepage at http://home.earthlink.net/~brightmeadow |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
2045 Posts |
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Nana Shirl
True Blue Farmgirl
352 Posts
Shirley
Kit Carson
Colorado
USA
352 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 05:17:44 AM
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Early Dusk after a fresh rain..the pungent smell of sage....a beautiful FULL rainbow...with a deer family of five grazing less than a city block from my back door right an the end of the rainbow..country gold...ummm love the fresh rain n blessings of God n peace...a time with God..oh so peaceful ummmhuh
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis |
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
4562 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 06:05:58 AM
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You know you've gone Farmgirl when...
The best score you ever made at a second hand shop was a brand new, knee high, green pair of Hunter Muck Boots still in the box, in your size for $30!!!!!!
You've been practicing for 4 years to become self-sufficient. You sell all your unneccessary items to buy equipment for your farm. You spend hours scouring real-estate ads and days looking at farms for sale. Your dream is so close you can almost taste it.
Most of your friends on Facebook have real farms and animals...not Farmville.
http://studiodiphotosite.shutterfly.com/
farmgirl sister #922
I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White |
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Dorinda
True Blue Farmgirl
1023 Posts
Dorinda
St. Cloud
Florida
USA
1023 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 07:58:49 AM
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When I pull up wooden tomatoe stakes and my glove has a hole in it and I pick out the splinters later in my fingers with my teeth!!
When I worry because my cow is breathing heavy.
When I step in side the store at Tractor Supply and loving the smell of it.
When I walk across the wet grass bare footed.
When I'm picking wild black berries.
When I'm thinking about scooping up cow manure for my garden.
When I'm in my kitchen on Sunday cooking dinner with all the fresh veggies from my garden.
When my tractor is making a funny noise I can't sleep from worrying about it.
Seize The Day!
Dorinda |
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
7577 Posts
Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
7577 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 09:16:53 AM
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... When you come home from church on a balmy, hot, hazy Sunday morning, dressed to the nines, see a rabbit in your garden, and go right in after him - heels deep in the mud and dress hiked up over your knees, yelling at the poor thing - vowing you'll get him if it's the last thing you do - as if you're some kind of crazed wildwoman, all the while wondering what hossenfeffer tastes like...
And, yes, the neighbors are STILL talking about it...
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
www.papercraftingwithnini.myctmh.com
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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
1874 Posts
Linda
Kansas
1874 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 11:09:27 AM
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When I am finally beginnning to look for recipes to make all things homemade..........
Tortillas, naan, breads, jams, sauces, laundry soap, dish soap, cleaners, etc.
I have not begun to complete all that I want to try. But I am anxious to get going!!
And amen on all above, especially the reading and magazine material!!
Blessings, Linda
www.scatteredlittleblessings.blogspot.com
Country at Heart |
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Farmer Judy
True Blue Farmgirl
433 Posts
Judy
North Aurora
IL
USA
433 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 1:50:26 PM
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When my local library has to keep ordering things special for me to read all about farming and animals
When I walk like one and talk like one (Farmgirl)
When I can remember the first time I was in Farm and Fleet and there is music in the background (from my memories not in the store)
When I get sickened by all the talk of GMOs and massive livestock antibiotics
When I get a great deal ($1 each) on overalls at the local thrift store and my husband sees me in nothing else for weeks
When I trade alone time to go to the Farmers Market
Born a city girl but a farm girl at heart! |
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Tea Lady
True Blue Farmgirl
645 Posts
Lorraine
Morris
IL
USA
645 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 4:12:41 PM
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Hi Farmer Judy - We're not too far from each other. I live in Morris, IL. If you ever get down this way, let me know and you can hook up with me and the other farmgirls in our chapter (a very small but fun chapter). We'd love to meet you. Isn't this a fun topic? I've had a blast reading everyone's posts. Too funny... Keep cool...
Lorraine
(aka Tea Lady)
Farmgirl #1819
www.birdsandteas.com |
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Rachael
Farmgirl in Training
11 Posts
Rachael
Smithfield
Utah
USA
11 Posts |
Posted - Jul 22 2011 : 8:54:35 PM
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When I my idea of an awesome date with my husband is going to IFA
Everyone wants chickens for pets because I talk about them so much!
When one of the best parts of the day is watering the garden!
You are jealous when you drive past a field and think about how you could map out each section into gardens, and how many chickens could live on it!
Winter Hollow Farm |
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jclambert
True Blue Farmgirl
149 Posts
Judy
Stringtown
Oklahoma
USA
149 Posts |
Posted - Jul 23 2011 : 2:22:38 PM
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When I'm climbing the fence in the cow lots to keep from getting ran over by a crazy yearling.
When Atwoods Farm and Ranch Supply became my favorite store.
Getting greasy helping my husband work on a tractor.
When I remember what chicken poop feels like between your toes (childhood memory)
Smelling my line dried clothes.
Judy
"Courage is when you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what". Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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