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**Welcome Wagon:  Another new member in Idaho City  |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 08:42:20 AM
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 My best friend, Rose, read me an article about Mary Jane a few years ago, then she found her book in a book club and then she bought all of the back issues of her magazine. I and our other close friends just poured over these publications. Rose's enthusiasm is infectious and I am just as excited as she about our new chapter and all the things we are planning and the ideas we hope to implement in order to revive our dying town. We want to get our own website going as an outlet for all of the talents of our members, have a float in the 4th of July parade, possibly have our own arts & crafts festival. We are open to suggestions from anyone who has ideas on how to liven things up around here and bring the tourists back. We still have some during the warmer season but not as many as we used to have. We want to make it fun for them, too.
We come from Nature, we go back to Nature; health & happiness in between requires intimacy with Nature. |
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 08:46:47 AM
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Hey Lisa, welcome to our little group! You will love it here, everyone is soooo sweet! Sounds like MJ might be coming to your town soon! Have fun and say "Hi" to her for me! Cindy
If life gives you scraps, make quilts! |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 09:16:37 AM
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Thanks for the welcome, Cindy, and we are EXTREMELY excited at the idea that Mary Jane might come to see us. We feel very honored that she's even considering it. We haven't even received our packet yet and we're already having fun.
We come from Nature, we go back to Nature; health & happiness in between requires intimacy with Nature. |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 09:49:27 AM
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Thanks, Marybeth. I am so glad to have found a group of women who have the same interests and concerns about healthful living. We felt pretty isolated here and weren't even aware that there were so many others like us. This is great.
We come from Nature, we go back to Nature; health & happiness in between requires intimacy with Nature. |
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4510 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4510 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 09:57:15 AM
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| Hi Lisa, Sounds like you will be having a great time getting together. Glad you found this site, I know I sure enjoy it, and know you will too. Michele |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 12:07:32 PM
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Hi Lisa!! How fun to be so active in a farmgirl chapter like that already!! I look forward to hearing more about you Idaho gals!! Have fun!! I am glad you found us! Welcome!!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 1:52:08 PM
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Hi, Jenny and thanks. I used to live in West Valley but it got so bad there with gangs, drive by shootings and drugs everywhere; I had to get out. I absolutely LOVE it here. It's a little harder to garden here with the rocky ground and shorter season, but we manage. We are all VERY excited about our new farmgirl chapter. We've been wanting to form a women's club for some time now that wasn't all about gossip and Mary Jane gave us the inspiration we needed to actually get going.
We come from Nature, we go back to Nature; health & happiness in between requires intimacy with Nature. |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 2:39:18 PM
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Welcome, Lisa! I can't wait to get to know you and Rose better. You sound like two great ladies! Glad you found us. :)
Karin |
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shelle
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Shelle
oklahoma
USA
404 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 6:54:18 PM
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welcome aboard Lisa!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 11:46:59 PM
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Welcome Lisa!
We are so glad to have you! Isn't the book wonderful! I am always full of ideas (not all of them the greatest ) and would be happy to brainstorm for you. What are the things you hope to focus on and what talents/activities do you think you would like to or are able to provide?
Beyond this, you have found a wonderful place with some very talented and wise ladies who I have enjoyed learning from! I am sure you will find plenty of inspriation here! I wish you the very best as you breath life into your comunity! I look forward to getting to know you better as I see you 'round  !
Hugz,
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 1:08:18 PM
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Hi, Talitha and thanks. Well, so far we have a jewelry maker who's husband plays in a local band; a really good organizer, gardener, horsewoman; a wonderful painter; I garden and make pine needle/gourd baskets and Rose can sew up anything as well as garden, organize, bargain-shop, well Rose does more than I can even mention. We expect others to join us soon. We want to come up with events that will draw people to our town. We want to do our own arts & crafts festival but that will have to wait for next year due to time constraints. A local business puts on old west shoot outs in the summer and snowshoe races in the winter. The tourists seem to love those. We feel we need something unique and any ideas will be considered. I thought we should try a bed race but we only have 2 paved streets and they are not in very good shape. We are surrounded by national forest which brings a lot of outdoors-folks. But they seldom come into town for anything other than supplies they forgot to bring.
BUT, Rose and I will be going to the Past Blessings Antiques Fair in Fairfield, WA in May. I'll have my baskets and Rose is taking aprons she's making and some antique stuff. We hope to meet other Farmgirls from the area and get to know some of you.
We come from Nature, we go back to Nature; health & happiness in between requires intimacy with Nature. |
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shelle
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Shelle
oklahoma
USA
404 Posts |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
2077 Posts |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 6:32:27 PM
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Lisa,
I am going to check out the info on Idaho and think a bit and I will get back to you with any quirky things that may pop into my head! 
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
Edited by - Buttercup on Mar 08 2007 6:32:58 PM |
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**Welcome Wagon: Another new member in Idaho City |
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Another new member in Idaho City
