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AnnaBee
Farmgirl at Heart
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Anna
Upper Marlboro
Maryland
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 Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 7:05:43 PM
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Hello! My name is Anna, I'm a 32 yr. old single police sergeant, hoping to go to settlement on a 14-acre farm by mid-July! I have 2 horses, 2 chickens, a dog and a cat. I am VERY excited! The farm has a little shack of a house, a 120-yr. old tobacco barn, and an 8 acre field I plan to turn into pasture. It backs up to a state park about 1,000 acres in size, with wonderful riding trails. I'll have to put up fencing and such before I move my horses (who are boarded right now).
One of the things I find most interesting about these forums is the women trying to go it alone... I will certainly be in that category, but I've always been very self-sufficient. I have a collection of power tools (including chainsaw!) that I like to use, and I like to build stuff. I have a very nice garden now, and can't wait to expand! It's funny... plenty of times I've been at Home Depot, and I get that condescending "Can I help you, little lady?" smirk from men, but I swear I can find my way around that place better than many of the employees! I guess maybe I look more like a cheerleader than a cop, because people always seem to be surprised by my profession. But it's definitely given me a can-do, take-no-crap attitude, which is always helpful. Glad to be here!
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
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Molly
Visalia
California
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 7:40:25 PM
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Hi Anna, sounds like you'll fit right in, welcome!! 
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 7:46:56 PM
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Hi and Welcome Anna! We are can-do chicks here, so you have found a home. Glad you found this site! Your farm sounds lovely! Jenny rom Kansas
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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brownswissgal
Farmgirl in Training
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Julie
Plainfield
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 7:53:13 PM
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Welcome Anna....
You sound like good people to me :) Your place sounds great! I got a kick out of your power tool collection... LOL I too have a variety of great power tools that come in handy for a variety of things... you got to love a saw-zaw..... it's like a man with duct tape... we need a saw-zaw :) Well have fun and welcome to the crew! There are a lot of nice gals on this list!
Julie from Wisconsin
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