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A Farm of My Own:  New Bucket list  |
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
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 Posted - Jan 09 2012 : 1:25:12 PM
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New Year, New Decade ( for me) and a New Bucket LIST!!!!!!
Christmas and new Year saw me completing the last item on my old bucket list. I had wanted to see or at least, set my feet down, in all 50 states. It took me about 50 years but on the day after Christmas I visited Hawaii and completed that dream. The other big items on the old list included finishing College (that took 13 years) and owning a horse and a horse trailer, (that took about 20 years) OK, so I'm slow but I'm persistent. LOL A big ole turtle 
I'm starting a new list and I wonder how many years it will take to check off the first thing on this list.
Wondering.... What's left on YOUR list.
I'd love to hear about the things you have crossed off AND the ones you are still working and dreaming on. |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jan 09 2012 : 1:44:41 PM
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One of the things is to go to a NFL Superbowl game. I will keep that as number one on my Bucket List.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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fabraholic4
True Blue Farmgirl
55 Posts
Jan
BURLINGAME
KS
USA
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Posted - Jan 09 2012 : 3:35:36 PM
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Beth, like you one of the things that I have been able to cross off of my list is a horse, actually I now have two. The #1 on my list is a small place out in the country. Am still working on that one!
Oh for the simple life: family, quilts, corgi's, horses, homemade everything. |
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
29 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 07:08:59 AM
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Bear5 Hope you get to that Super Bowl someday. I enjoy that commercial where the fellow wins tickets to share with friends. It looks like so much fun.
Fabraholic I agree with you all the way. Family horses dogs and everything homemade.
I've already got land, not in my "ideal" location but workable. One thing I'm sure of after all this travel..... no place is perfect but there's no place like home.
Anybody read Animal Vegetable Miracle? I'm thinking about getting goats and learning to make cheese. We have made yogurt for years so this seems like a logical next step.
Anybody doing cheese? |
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jgenungkoch
Farmgirl at Heart
4 Posts
Jacqueline
Chandler
Arizona
USA
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Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 9:22:28 PM
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I love bucket list discussions! You think you know someone until you hear their bucket list...
This year I've crossed several things off in a short amount of time. I joined a professional dance company, am working on a new degree (finally declared my major this fall!), and started an Etsy shop.
My list still includes a visit to Paris and to make this dream of a Midwestern farm a reality. |
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ruthie218
True Blue Farmgirl
1425 Posts
Ruthie Ann
Indiana
USA
1425 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2012 : 10:16:04 AM
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I had a bucket list but changed to a finding me list as a bucket list freaked out my family. LOL
On my list has to return to school
To learn to sew better
To get oranginized
To pick a house plan and build that house
To take care of me
To take a pottery class
To own a klin and make pottery
http://simpleindianagirl.blogspot.com/ |
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mickib
True Blue Farmgirl
267 Posts
Michele
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
267 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2012 : 4:03:54 PM
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
29 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2012 : 07:09:33 AM
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Jacqueline, sounds like some satisfying progress on that list. The Phoenix area has some awesome shows through the year. Sounds like an inspiring place for a dancer.
Ruthie, A "Find Me" list does sound better. LOL I admit that when the last item was about to be crossed off I pondered the possibility of What Comes Next until a visiting friend said "start a new list". How sensible!
I can totally relate to your list as I have, over the years done many of those things. I wanted a wood burning kiln for salt glazed pottery. Still love the stuff but never did any on my own. Just keep working at the list and best wishes
Michele,Once I started thinking about it I realized that I always had a list. I always wanted to do at least two or three things at a time. Guess I could add living in ID or MT to my list. That is such a beautiful area. Lucky you. |
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hoosiercountry
True Blue Farmgirl
572 Posts
karla
north port
fl
USA
572 Posts |
Posted - Feb 12 2012 : 3:54:42 PM
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| I just saw this and added it to my bucket list, to attend the Cedar Mountian Herb School. |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Feb 12 2012 : 6:29:00 PM
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Michele: I'm like you, I do have a bucket list, but I need to write it down.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Alyce
Madison
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2012 : 6:48:23 PM
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1. Go to France.
That's um...that's really all that's been there since I was a kid.
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
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goneriding
True Blue Farmgirl
1599 Posts
Winona
Central Oregon
USA
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
650 Posts |
Posted - Apr 14 2012 : 5:36:54 PM
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
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Posted - Apr 17 2012 : 04:56:02 AM
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Alaska was one of my dreams for many years. I was lucky enough to manage to love there for almost ten years. Loved every bit of it!!!!!!
Now I am back at the old family farm trying to see if , at my age, I can drag it back from the grasp of weeds mould and rust.
Quite a daunting task but so peaceful and restoring to be here and wake up to the honking of the wild geese. |
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
29 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2012 : 5:03:17 PM
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whoo hooo! I'm at the old family farm at least for a few months. Daughter and son in Law are here helping me get brush and trash cleared out. What a job but it is looking better.
Not sure yet where /how this will end up but so far so good |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2012 : 5:15:57 PM
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Wonderful news. I'd love to see pictures of the farm. Keep us posted.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
2804 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2012 : 4:53:54 PM
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I have found myself without a bucket list. Through the years I have done exactly what I thought I wanted to do and now I feel like there is nothing left. I have struggled for two years to find things that I truly wanted to do and I am coming up empty - it worries me so I am looking foreword to reading more about your dreams - maybe something will hit me...
Thanks for posting this topic
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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ruthie218
True Blue Farmgirl
1425 Posts
Ruthie Ann
Indiana
USA
1425 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2012 : 5:32:42 PM
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Im working on my bucket list this weekend. Im working on the oranzining part of my bucket list. I've also addesd a another thing ot my bucket list. That is to downsize and Im getting good at the downsizing.
Ruthie Ann
http://simpleindianagirl.blogspot.com/
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oregonatural
True Blue Farmgirl
152 Posts
Susan
Sprague River
OR
USA
152 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2012 : 06:40:23 AM
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What a great topic Beth! I always wanted to sing our National Anthem at a public event and a few years back I did that, and I even hit the notes, it felt GREAT! I still want to learn to fly a plane but I may have to give up on that. My friend Carole did that and she said that without owning your own plane it's very hard (and very expensive) to stay in practice. Good point.
Next I want to learn to be a better horse-woman. We have horses and I adore them, but I'm skittish when it comes to riding them and that makes both me and horse nervous. Need to get over that. Just my old bones don't wanna fall off I guess. The ground looks so far down there when you're in the saddle at 60!
I always wanted to travel to the isolated places: Patagonia and Mongolia. That might still happen some day.
Mainly I just wanted to live off-grid and have a big garden and cook on a wood-burning cookstove. I'm there! Yaaay for holding onto a dream! I still want chickens, but that'll happen.
Good luck with all of your dreams Sisters!
Susan
Farmgirl #4053
My off-grid homestead blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
ETSY Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/OregonNatural
Blessings to you from my mountain girl heart! |
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
29 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2012 : 1:09:28 PM
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Hey gals, thanks for the replies and encouragement.
We are hanging in there but it is a lot of work and the place was a real disaster.
Rented for years to tenants who thought that three miles to the county landfill was "too far" to take the trash so it is all over. That makes everything else more difficult. Then about 5 years of having nobody here at all.
Not complaining just trying to summarize the situation.
We have gotten a couple small gardens started and have ordered some chicks and guinees. The place is loaded with BUGS!!!!
The tomatoes look good. The raspberries are blooming and we managed to rescue one of Dad's grapevines. Also picked mulberries for a cobbler and some jam.
Oh and the kids built me a deck from some lumber salvaged from the old chicken house. Quite a nice Mothers day present. |
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jollyquilter
True Blue Farmgirl
251 Posts
WV
USA
251 Posts |
Posted - May 13 2012 : 07:59:35 AM
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I just love this thread and I will have to give this some thought. I guess my bucket list has always been in my head. Need to get out the paper and pencil and start writing it all down.
www.StuffByKim.etsy.com
http://fiberandflea.blogspot.com |
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erowease
True Blue Farmgirl
294 Posts
Lesley
Edmonds
wa
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2012 : 6:18:33 PM
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I have been able to complete 2 items off of my bucket list, I graduated from college (it took me 14 years) and I went to Paris a couple of years ago. I still have the goal of owning a small herb farm, going to Spain/Portugal, having a conservatory where I can have birds (finches, canary etc.), live off grid, win a ribbon/prize for a quilt. My age is adding up quickly so I need to get busy.
Lesley |
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
29 Posts |
Posted - May 23 2012 : 6:41:47 PM
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You're doing great Lesley. Fortunately how long it takes is not as important as getting it done. ( my degree took 13 tears too)
I'm trying to grow herbs here too but I don't think the climate here is too great for many of them. That's OK there bare lots of other options.
Susan, love the wood burning kitchen stove idea and the horse and the travel and, WOW, singing the National Anthem.... now that is really something.
What fun! |
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houligan19
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
sarah
groton
CT
39 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 6:22:42 PM
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Right now all I really have on my list is to buy some land and to build a house. I want the house to be off the grid, and the land to provide me with most of the things I need in life. That way I can retire from being a nurse before I turn 50. Hopefully well before 50.
http://earthhomevt.blogspot.com/ |
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
650 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2012 : 8:29:24 PM
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wandrinbear
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
beth
az
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Posted - Jun 28 2012 : 05:21:51 AM
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Wow Houligan, that is quite a goal. DH retired very early but then we had problems with no medical insurance. So, guess who got to go back to work????
We have gotten a lot done, gardens are doing well ( in spite of bugs and occasional rampaging chickens) and repairs/ reconstruction is progressing. Still lots to do but, WOW!!! I gotta say this feels like the best summer of my life.
Are there instructions for posting photos? |
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