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A Farm of My Own:  Found my bit of Heaven, the saga begins!  |
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6663 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6663 Posts |
 Posted - Nov 28 2017 : 10:12:41 AM
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Vanessa, your new Homestead is coming along very nicely!! It sounds like you are getting everything you were planning in place too. YOUr view is lovely and I am so happy to hear that you were able to get a retirement home of your dreams! Thanks too for sharing your photos so we all can enjoy!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Dec 31 2017 : 5:31:34 PM
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Oh yes, we decorated and hosted family front Florida. Tonight we're snuggled in for New Years eve. Temps will be down to 0 degrees.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jan 03 2018 : 09:00:38 AM
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Vanessa... well... Happy New Year in your little bit of Heaven...
Have you started looking through garden catalogs yet?? lol!
We are still renovating this house and already I have a "Honey-do' list a mile long for my DH... and yes,,, a "She-Shed' is on the list!!! lol!
Stay warm...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Jan 03 2018 : 12:33:29 PM
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I have Wayside Gardens & have been checking off bushes & trees I like (just like the Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog).
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Jan 03 2018 : 12:39:39 PM
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My sweetie, Fang, doesn't know this but I have plans for a forlorn little building that is tucked behind one of the garages. If we could pull it downhill, cut windows in the sides, & nail white siding on it, it would be a cute garden shed, surrounded by raised beds.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Jan 13 2018 : 5:29:25 PM
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The recent storm left a clean blanket of snow. I leave seeds down the hill along the trendline.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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HodgeLodge
True Blue Farmgirl
662 Posts
Tiana
Berkeley Springs
WV
USA
662 Posts |
Posted - Jan 13 2018 : 6:52:46 PM
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It's really beautiful Vanessa,let us know how your little building goes. Keep those pictures coming. It's very exciting to see it growing.
Tiana ~ Farmgirl #4817
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."~ Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2018 : 3:21:23 PM
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Alrighty then! Last week we had a contractor install drywall & insulate and cover the ceiling, plus add more outlets in the basement where my mother-in-law will live. Yesterday we bought paint & supplies, then he took apart the pool table (which came with the house) and I taped the edges. We'd planned to post the pool table on Offer Up, but it was so heavy, and the basement door is so small that we wouldn't have been able to remove it. I've decided to make a raised bed out of part of it, a potting table with the main part, and use the pockets for hanging plants.
Deer at our back door. I couldn't throw the feed very far.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2018 : 09:11:01 AM
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Below is the floating floor that we've installed. My husband is only posing. He got too impatient to help.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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suny58
True Blue Farmgirl
4407 Posts
Dianna
Jack
Al.
USA
4407 Posts |
Posted - Jan 26 2018 : 5:12:57 PM
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It is beautiful Vanessa!!! Everything seems to be moving along nicely despite the weather!! We lived in a tiny one bedroom RV for THREE years on our 65 acre homestead and JUSt got our home built this past October! Moved in and we are STILL working on things that needed done but we did get a nice garden going the past two years! Can not wait until the barn gets built and we get our chickens and horses!! I so wish you the best!!!
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2018 : 5:05:44 PM
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What an adventure for you! It is wonderful to have a brand new home of your own. I love our home, it has just enough little things to fix to keep us busy. The next big expense will be a deck off the sunroom (it's up high because we're on a slope) and installing a French door to it. I plan to celebrate every October 2 as Homecoming Day.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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churunga
True Blue Farmgirl
3957 Posts
Marie
Minneapolis
MN
USA
3957 Posts |
Posted - Jan 28 2018 : 08:59:35 AM
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That was more of Fang than I wanted to see. <snicker>
Marie, Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2018 : 1:24:13 PM
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Today 3 hawks decided to perch on fence posts across the road.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2018 : 7:07:55 PM
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Today everything was glazed like a Krispy Irene doughnut. Even the gates in our fence were frozen! It was cold, wet, and gray. Then in the afternoon the sun broke through to highlight the icy trees.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2018 : 12:53:00 PM
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Today is bread day! I found a recipe for beer bread that only has 4 ingredients. It smells wonderful.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Feb 14 2018 : 6:14:29 PM
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My sweetie gave me a biiiig box of chocolates from Ruth Hunt Chocolates, made right here in Kentucky. Our cat Shrek is demanding some kitty treats before I get my people treats.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
2474 Posts |
Posted - Feb 15 2018 : 2:11:07 PM
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Vanessa, it is such fun to see your dream come true. Your cat and mine must be in the same family. Their treats before yours. Lol. Marie would like you to live in Minnesota but I think Kentucky has less stressful weather. Enjoy those chocolates!
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Feb 15 2018 : 6:33:19 PM
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I wish she could move here, it would be great for our creativity but too much craziness for our other halves. Tonight the temperature is up to 67 and I heard froggies (I think) peeping in the distance.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Mar 12 2018 : 2:55:17 PM
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On a recent visit to my parents, we were gifted with several things. This is a quilt cover my mom had bought from a Vietnamese lady. Its partly machine sewn, partly hand sewn. The earthtones are perfect for our bedroom. The details of each block are amazing. Mom also gave me wanna bulbs and four o' clock and lavender seeds. They also gave us 2 spare carboys, so we will begin making wine.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2018 : 10:18:54 AM
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Yesterday was sunny and 40 degrees. Today is snowy and 30 degrees. Free buffet for birds continues.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Mar 27 2018 : 09:38:39 AM
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This is a plaque I found in a thrift store in Black River Falls, WI. Today I finally hung it up on the back side of a garage and it will hold bird seed. I may put a little roof over it later.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - Apr 10 2018 : 1:00:25 PM
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I discovered hyacinths growing wild across the road near our mailbox. Fang also sprayed weed killer on some in our front yard, but now I know of them they are protected.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
Edited by - Audra Rose on Apr 10 2018 1:01:18 PM |
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churunga
True Blue Farmgirl
3957 Posts
Marie
Minneapolis
MN
USA
3957 Posts |
Posted - Apr 11 2018 : 09:52:06 AM
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I just want my sister to live with me in Minnesota because I am too lazy to go down to see her. I may visit this summer. Indeed, when we sisters get together it is so much like when we were kids. Now as adults, we understand each other so much that we are almost telepathic. Our husbands are almost exact opposites.
Marie, Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
Try everything once and the fun things twice. |
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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
2278 Posts
Vanessa
Brooksville
KY
USA
2278 Posts |
Posted - May 09 2018 : 06:12:53 AM
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Hurray for spring! The weather has warmed up, the trees are in leaf and I'm planting flowers. I keep humming "My Old Kentucky Home" and breathe in the fresh air and relax in the peace and quiet.
Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!
Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster |
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A Farm of My Own: Found my bit of Heaven, the saga begins! |
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Found my bit of Heaven, the saga begins!
