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Farmer Macleigh
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Tennessee
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 12:22:31 PM
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Hey Y'all,
Clare kindly suggested I share a bit about myself, so here I am -- three posts old! Isn't it lovely to find helpful people here right away?
I'm a career girl and grad student from Tennessee with a rural background and a love for country living. Fortunately, I have the opportunity to get away to the country relatively often. Gardening and cooking are two loves of mine, and I am learning more about the arts of simple living each day. I entertain dreams of having my own place someday that will serve as a home and B&B, complete with gardens and animals, that welcomes guests from all around the country.
I'm so glad to have found a copy of MJF in the store a few weeks ago and promptly went out and purchased the book. Right now, I'm learning all I can for the future so I can put that knowledge to use every day.
Best, M.
Hope sustains the farmer. -- Old Proverb |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 12:31:51 PM
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Welcome, M.! You sound like you will love it here and we will enjoy hearing more about your life in Tennessee. jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 3:11:03 PM
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Welcome to the group, M.!! My husband and I have a dream to run a B&B someday when we retire, looking forward to getting to know you!
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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Farmer Macleigh
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Tennessee
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 7:32:42 PM
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Thank you, Molly, for the fine Irish welcome!
Hope sustains the farmer. -- Old Proverb |
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knittin girl13
Farmgirl at Heart
8 Posts
Haley
8 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 7:41:33 PM
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welcome to the group M.! I too share the same interests as you cooking and gardening. hope to talk to you some other time!
Haley |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 10:09:12 PM
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Welcome to our little family of farmgirls...glad you are here!!!!
Jenny in Utah The best things in life arn't things! |
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quiltedess
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Nancy
Priest River
ID
USA
296 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 09:04:23 AM
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Welcome M. My grandpa's family came from Tennessee. Several are still there. I have visited them and toured the farms and cemetery where the ancestor's were buried. Tennessee is beautiful! It feels like home to me, though I've never lived there.
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Farmer Macleigh
Farmgirl in Training
39 Posts
Tennessee
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2005 : 10:27:43 AM
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Thank you, Nancy. Yes, it is pretty here and so green! I've also been up to Washington State, and it's lovely there, too. Thanks for making me feel welcome!
Hope sustains the farmer. -- Old Proverb |
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2005 : 11:41:44 AM
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You're "welcome" M. for the Irish 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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Robinwolf
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Robin
Blacksburg
Virginia
USA
44 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2005 : 3:27:43 PM
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Hi Molly! I take it that you are a quilter! I am too! I am beginning a Dear Jane quilt - have you heard of or done one of those? Or are you an Art Quilter? I do mostly art quilts, but I do love the Dear Jane. I'm doing it in WOWZY colors, so it will be kinda wild, but fun! I am making one for my husband and me and one for my daughter. I have an Amish-style quilt that is waiting to be quilted. I hand-quilted one block, but my Parkinson's disease took over, and I cannot hand-quilt any longer - I have too many tremors in my hands. My husband just bought me a Bernina Aurora 440 - which is a quilting machine, and I am so thrilled with it - now I can finish the Amish-style quilt, plus my Log Cabin quilt, and my purple stars quilt, my North Woods quilt, etc etc. I had begun to think I'd never be able to get them done. I am really excited to work on this new machine. I have a class on it on Thursday. Please tell us more about your quilting! Robin (Pomlady)
Let the beauty we love be what we do. -- Rumi-- |
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2005 : 8:16:28 PM
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Hi Robin, I'm so sorry it took me so long to reply to this, I didn't see it until now! I make handmade baby quilts using vintage hankies...check out my website: http://mollymaequilts.tripod.com . I've never heard of a "Dear Jane" quilt before, what is that exactly??
Cead Mile Failte, Molly
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the Aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" ~Emily Dickinson
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
Sisterhood of the Traveling Art |
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PhillyfarmGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
59 Posts
Yael
Philadelphia
PA
USA
59 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2005 : 04:17:25 AM
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Welcome M, I too have all kinds of books and magazines that I learn from to help me when I actually get to live my dream. Reminded me of the story in MJ's book about the African American Lady in Florida. I so related to her, it even made me teary eyed. ( I am the sensitive sort after all) Have fun here! All the best!
~It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.~ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 09:21:09 AM
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Welcome M and Haley!!!
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
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