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Erin Raincrow
True Blue Farmgirl
65 Posts
Julie Erin
New Mexico
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 Posted - May 24 2005 : 1:40:16 PM
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Hi everybody. Thought I'd come up here and introduce myself seeing as how I'd already started posting on a couple of topics....I'm so glad that I found the magazine and now this website :)
My name is Erin and I'm a 30 year old farmgirl in the SE corner of New Mexico. I'm the wife to David, an Oilfield Consultant and the mother of Cy, my 7 year old son and Mimi, my 4 year old daughter.
Currently we live on 1 acre right outside the city but we recently bought 400 acres about 30 miles away and are hoping to move this fall.
We raise Navajo Churro and Western Whiteface Sheep. We also have 3 dogs, 1 donkey and 2 ducks and are hoping to add some chickens here in the next couple of weeks.
We homeschool, spin and weave, make our own butter (I want a small cow so that I have my own milk to work with) garden and can, make our own herbal products among other things.
Anyway, am so thrilled to find this website and hope to share and learn with everybody :)
But once in while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2005 : 1:53:05 PM
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Welcome! You sure fit right in and sound like you are well on your way to fulfulling the dream! Glad you found us 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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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - May 24 2005 : 2:24:06 PM
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Welcome Erin (that is my youngest daughter's name too, by the way!) you are going to fit in great around here!! I have a navajo churro ram lamb right now..and love the breed. I have Icelandic sheep too. I am happy to see another spinner here!!!!
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2005 : 4:29:15 PM
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Welcome Julie! You sound like you have an interesting life, and we look forward to hearing more from you!
jpbluesky
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.
from "A Passing Glimpse" by Robert Frost |
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
1681 Posts |
Posted - May 24 2005 : 6:09:40 PM
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Hello Erin, your sure living the dream. 400 acres, thats unbelievable! I spin and weave, mostly spin, hook rugs. You'll have plenty of room for your cow. Welcome and were thrilled to have you with us. Michele
"she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands". Prov. 31:13 |
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
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Posted - May 25 2005 : 12:02:49 PM
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Hello Erin,
So glad to make your aquaintance. You will fit right in here.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
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Nicol
True Blue Farmgirl
200 Posts
Nicol
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Posted - May 25 2005 : 1:13:18 PM
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| Hi Erin! Nice to meet you. I have always wanted to raise sheep. |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - May 25 2005 : 3:31:11 PM
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Welcome, Julie! I love New Mexico, it is such a pretty state.
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
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Erin Raincrow
True Blue Farmgirl
65 Posts
Julie Erin
New Mexico
65 Posts |
Posted - May 25 2005 : 3:47:05 PM
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Thanks for the welcome everybody :)
Kim, do you have a favorite place in New Mexico? We've lived all over the place but everytime we leave the desert calls us back and we end up coming home. HOME...such a lovely word.
Nicol, I wasn't to sure that I wanted sheep until the day that a friend (she started out as my weaving teacher and now is she one of my dearest friends) showed up on my doorstep with one of her older ewes and 2 lambs (one ewe and one ram) and said Here, ya go!!!! I'm now in the process of buying the remainder of her flock and I can't imagine not having them.
But once in while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.
Auden |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - May 25 2005 : 6:09:05 PM
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I'll have to dig through my vacation photos. It was when I was married and my ex-husband and I drove along 40 that parallels route 66. Galup was pretty and so was Tucumcari.
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
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