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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
1662 Posts
Linda
Kansas
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 Posted - Oct 16 2011 : 4:18:12 PM
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Goodness, such busy and fun times many of you are having! Love reading the posts! It is like a wonderful time of tea/coffee and chatting with friends at a coffee house.Enjoy the evening everyone!! Farmgirl hugs, linda
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lynnschlicht1961
Farmgirl in Training
20 Posts
lynn
swartz creek
michigan
USA
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Posted - Oct 16 2011 : 5:02:30 PM
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Just a quick note. I have to go finish making apple butter.
Sounds like everyone is having a good day.
I had a great day yesterday with my hubby scouring through a junk yard looking for a rubber floor liner for a 49 truck he's been restoring. I found a very cool pickle jar in a van. It's amazing what you find in a junk yard LOL
Have a wonderful evening.
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Acelady02
True Blue Farmgirl
1254 Posts
Penny
Washington
GA
USA
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Posted - Oct 16 2011 : 9:52:01 PM
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I was browsing the web tonight and came across a few good websites, someone one here was asking about information on being self sufficient. So I thought I would share the site and some of the publications she suggested, guess what MJF is on that list. I copied and pasted this list from the website below
http://pioneerwomanatheart.blogspot.com/
MAGAZINES/JOURNALS FOR SELF SUFFICIENT LIVING
Backwoods Home
Grit
MaryJane's Farm
Mother Earth News
Small Farmer's Journal
The Herb Quarterly
The New Pioneer Magazine
BOOKS FOR SELF SUFFICIENT LIVING
Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving, by Altrista Consumr Products
Cider beans, wild greens, and dandelion jelly : recipes from Southern Appalachia, by Joan E. Aller.
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation, by The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante and Deborah Madison
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables, by Mike Bubel and Nancy
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy
The Dehydrator Bible: Includes over 400 Recipes - Paperback , by Jennifer MacKenzie, Jay Nutt and Don Mercer
The Encyclopedia for Country Living, by Carla Emery
The Family Cow (A Garden Way Publishing Book), by Dirk Van Loon
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants, by Samuel Thayer
The Forgotten Arts, Making Old-Fashioned Jellies, James, Preserves, Conserves, Marmalades, Butters, Honeys, and Leathers, editor Clarissa M. Silitch, Yankee Books
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living (The Ultimate Guides) - Paperback (Mar. 10, 2011), by Nicole Faires
Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, Crafts, Companion Planting and More, by Miranda Smith
Also I came across a site called Small Town Living, it looks like a magazine you can read online and even download with so much info. www.STliving.com I have gone to alot of the websites they talk about and it is so much info, I think it will take me awhile to go through it all, I think I was able to download the last 4 or 5 issues no charge, and it looks like if you want to go back further than that you can get the magazine to download for $3. each. You can read the whole magazine offline after you download it...
I just added this too..
this is another site it is one of the best I've ever found, it has soooo much stuff in it.
http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com/
(((((Hugs All)))))Penny
Farmgirl Sister #3343
God gives Miracles to those who Believe, Courage to those with Faith, Hope to those who Dream, Love to those who Accept, & Forgiveness to those who Ask... |
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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
1662 Posts
Linda
Kansas
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 05:17:39 AM
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Good morning to my farmgirl sisters! Penny, you have shared some of my favorites, and I have learned some new! Can't wait to check some out today! I also love.........Homesteading Today. Its a message forum with all kinds of topics and great people with info. Also love Countryside, small stock journal. Not sure exactly the stock part of it? Have loved and subscribed on/off for years now! My fav book is Carla Emory's that you mentioned. Got it first sometime in the late 70s or early 80s. I may not be in a house anymore? But I am still looking for ways to be as self sufficient as possible even in my apt! I have been gathering new bread recipes, recipes to make own tortillas, etc, etc, etc. Little by little. No matter our space or circumstances, farmgirl is a state of the heart!! Well, it is time for tea and early AM sounds on the balcony. Check in later and see what everyones up to today! Have a good morning! Farmgirl hugs, linda www.scatteredlittleblessings/blogspot.com
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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
1662 Posts
Linda
Kansas
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 05:23:44 AM
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Darlys, lol, loved your 'chiropractor/yacht' comment! Too funny! Day by day, we plug along and get thru, right? Ok, teatime! Farmgirl hugs, linda
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Oggie
True Blue Farmgirl
484 Posts
Ginny
Machias
Maine
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 07:18:24 AM
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Well I've only made it to page 93 after not being here in a long while and figured I'd better say a few things because it could take me days to catch up! So up to now:
Judy - I am so sorry you have shingles and I hope it goes away quickly and never comes back. My Mom had shingles in her eyes and because of it has had two cornea transplants in one eye and is still blind in it! She's starting to go blind in her only good eye which isn't good when she's taking care of a house, a husband, a garden, and doing all the driving! So I really hope it goes no further for you!! I'll keep you in my prayers.
PeggyAnn - I too have fibro so I completely understand how you feel. I am tired all the time and can go to sleep at the drop of a pin. I ache and no matter how much exercise I do, I always ache. And I often feel like my joints just freeze up, especially when I sit for a little while and try to stand up. It's like all the blood has to get back into the legs! I wouldn't wish this on anyone, that's for sure! AND I LOVE YOUR SPOONS! What a great idea! They are beautiful, you do good work at your kitchen counter, lol!
Glenda - If you ever make it to Northern Maine, please let me know! I live about as far North and East as you can get and still be in the USA. There is NOTHING where I live. Nearest stop light is 60 miles away! We have a lot of tree's, lakes, and of course the ocean. Most peoploe never get this far Downeast, they tend to stay in Southern Maine where it's more touristy and what folks think Maine is. You and Ed look like a wonderful couple and no, he doesn't look 86 nor do you look 68! What a great guy to take you all over the world! Glad you found someone to make you happy.
Linda - For years we use to throw seeds into our compost and see what would grow. It was always a surprise to us. This year we didn't do that now that I have a field for a garden but ironically something started to grow. I think it may have been muskmellon but it was late in the season and the "fruit" didn't really grown into anything. It's been fun though. One year we had acorn squash growing in the pine trees and hanging down from the branches, lol.
Welcome Diane! I hope you stick around with us old ladies! Of course I feel and act about 25, but my body is definately 57!
Holly - I too tend to freeze my garden produce as it's so much easier. I do can my tomato's, pickles, jams, pears, and applesauce, but everything else gets frozen. I think it's because I am harvesting it all at once and I get so busy and so tired I find the easy way out of it which is to freeze the stuff. Let's just hope we don't have another ice storm like 1998. Did you have it in Vermont? We were without power for 10 days and it never got above 10 degrees! I felt like I was living in a war zone as you could hear all the ice on the tree's cracking all the time and you always had to look up if you ventured outside so no ice would hit you on the head. It was horrible.
I just learned last night my Dad (stepdad but Dad to me), who is 92, is in the hospital. Please keep him in your prayers ladies! They were eating lunch after church yesterday at Fuddruckers(?) and he got really sick so a friend who was with them took him to the bathroom (he could lbarely walk with his walker). He came out later to tell Mom that she needed to call 911 as Dad was throwing up and having diharria(?) at the same time. They did a cat scan and found his colon was "schenic". Basically part of it is dead. This happened 5 years ago and they did surgery and told my Mother he'd never make it but he made it through the surgery and was in the hospital for 3 weeks. They put him in a nursing home and Mom and my sister went there the next morning and found him sitting on the side of the bed throwing up and the other guy in the room said he'd been doing it all night and no one was helping him. So they immediately got a wheel chair and took him out of there and insisted he get back to the hospital. Then I went down and brought him home and took care of him for 5 months and he was back to his old self. I don't know if I could do that now with a job and my own hubby just starting to walk again. I hate being this age as all of your elders start dieing on you.
Brenda - That must have been so much fun holding the sign for your grandson! You are lucky to have some of your grandchildren near you. I hope when I have some I'm as lucky but right now the daughter lives 4 hours away and doesn't plan on coming home anytime soon! Family and friends is what is important. Before moving to Maine I worked for a lobbiest in DC and was in the center of the universe so to speak. But when I got pregnant I knew it wasn't a place to raise a family and we moved here. The pay got cut in half but the quality of life is 100 times better.
Patty - I loved your story about Ben too. I you gave me a BIG laugh at the end when you said you were still training your new hubby! It's so true! Love your craft room too. Mine is a big mess, want to come and clean it for me, lol?
Enough babbling, back to work or back to reading the next 5 pages.
Have a great week ladies!
Ginny
Ginny
Farmgirl #2343
www.thedewhopinn.com
"I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with."
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Both by Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in the Movie Harvey
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DEW
True Blue Farmgirl
317 Posts
Dianne
Weiser
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 07:20:59 AM
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Hi Everyone
Wow I am away for the weekend and all kinds of things happen. Penny I love your giving heart don't change! I think I lerned some things from all you have been through.I doubt I would have handeled it as well as you did. You are truly wonderful. Also I love the magazines you mentioned and I dito Linda on Countryside.Thanks for the book tips. I may not live in the country yet, but with God's blessing that may happen soon. Then I will have to move. Augh!!
Well it's off to work. You all have a wonderful day.
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thebyrdhaus
True Blue Farmgirl
357 Posts
Patty
Carlinville
Il
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 08:28:31 AM
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Good morning.... Having some Pumpkin Spice Latte this morning. I found the recipe online and love it! The key word today is motivation! I better add FOCUS to that too...lol. I just signed up for a World Series ticket giveaway. Hubby will be so excited when I win and we get to go see the Cardinals play. :)
Penny, thanks for all the sites and book recommendations. I already checked out the stliving site. I think I am gonna love it.
I have so much to do this week, and the following weeks. It is that countdown to the holidays from here on out. Busy, busy, busy.
We had our local sisterhood meeting this past weekend, and we each wrote a letter to a military member and sent them off to the news station per the link I posted last week. It was difficult at first and some of the ladies drug their feet from the weight of excuses. But as we started reading what was written out loud, the creative juices started flowing. Everyone wrote a letter and they were all nice written letters. :) I am glad we wrote these letters! I think it was a good thing and though seemed hard at first, it surely gave us all a warm fuzzy feeling after we accomplished it. These type of things will make our group a success, and create the heart warming type of group we want to be. We also started a cookie plate list. At our next gathering we will set a date to get together and bake cookies. We will prepare a plate for each person we have put on our list. The cookies will be a wonderful excuse to give those a visit that I am sure they will appreciate so much. I think the visit will be as important as the cookies. We learned to etch glass at our meeting and enjoyed chill and a baked apple dessert. I love these meetings and am so glad we started them.
Peggy - Here are a couple of the pictures of the bracelets. Not sure if you can get on this FB page of the things I make but here is a link. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Country-Girls-Gone-Green/294978530516397
Well, I am hardly getting anything done sitting in front of this computer. Have a wonderful productive day!
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Patty #1840
A rind is a terrible thing to waste. Compost.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”
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darlystippie
True Blue Farmgirl
410 Posts
Darlys
Cupertino
CA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 09:44:42 AM
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Just had to stop by for a couple of minutes this morning. Really need to get something done around here so I can't stay long. Read a whole bunch of posts ... I just love you all sooooo much! Hey, Linda - we do get through, indeed ...
And Penny, I've made myself a note on my Stuff-To-Do sticky note ... "Penny's website/publication/book list - pg 98." I will be back there later to check it out."
Only 4 days here this week as we go to Oakhurst Thursday evening. (SIL & BIL coming to visit and they want to go into the park on Friday. Not as many people in the park then as there are on weekends.)
Later, gfs. Have a wonderful, smiley face day!
Chocolate Kisses ....
Sister #3284 - on her Tippie Toes - oxox, Darlys
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Oggie
True Blue Farmgirl
484 Posts
Ginny
Machias
Maine
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 10:37:27 AM
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I finally caught up! And I used my Notepad !!!! Thank you for instructions Judy! I can't believe I didn't know that before!
PeggyAnn - A washer and dryer!! You are going to be in heaven! Enjoy the new house! Furniture Protection - ROTFL! I finally bought glassed in bookcases for mine!
Patty - Cute boys!
Judy & Glenda - Talk about burning food, I always forget. My DH normally does the cooking for this reason. But I have been for the last 4 months and I get side comments from him. Grrrr! That just makes it worse!
Yardsales are great! I find all week I am tired and hate getting up for work but come Saturday I wake up by myself knowing it's yard sale day
Well at least during the summer. We don't have any in the winter.
Linda - You were talking about our android. My DH bought me a tablet a couple of years ago and it was horrible! I just ordered an IPhone 4S about two weeks ago, very excited because I've never had a fancy cell phone. In fact my daughter kept telling us we were the only parents of her friends that didn't have a cell phone until I added a line to her bill! So I decide to get up todate with all this technoogy and what happens, they sent it to my daughters old address so neither of us even got it on Friday when I was suppose to. Now I have to re-order and probably won't since the thrill is gone and I need a new roof! Oh well, it just isn't meant to be. :) I hope your back is doing better.
Brenda - Congratulations on a new Grandson!! How exciting. I can't wait for that period in my life.
It's like when I was a kid and couldn't wait to grow up, now I can't wait to be a grandma! But first the daughter needs to marry. :)
Lynn - It's funny about eating out. Since I've been cooking we have probably gotten take out more than the 28 years we have been married! lol
Betty - Were you challenging us to write to page 100? Looks like we may get there by the time you land in NC, lol! Have a great time! Don't foregt a picture of yourself! We all want to marvel at your creative sewing!
Penny - I hope you are doing better today and that you know you are doing what is right with your FIL. The world is filled with petty people that make mountains out of mole hills. You just have to ignore them. Loved your pear butter picture, hmmmmm! I didn't get any pears this year because of my DH. Well there's next year. And the wild hog is awesome! Good for you guys! I didn't know they stilled existed in the USA, so that's good to know. I'll be at that pig roast too! Sweet potato's are my favorite!
Ginny
Farmgirl #2343
www.thedewhopinn.com
"I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with."
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Both by Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in the Movie Harvey
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Acelady02
True Blue Farmgirl
1254 Posts
Penny
Washington
GA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 2:11:42 PM
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Hi all,
Linda KS, I am glad you liked my post...I was so excited to see MJF on the list of SELF SUFFICIENT MAGS. Even in your apt. you are a country girl at heart, I spend so much time last night checking out the last website I posted about...so much good stuff on there.
Ginny, I am so sorry to hear about your Dad, I will keep him in my prayers, please keep me posted on how he is doing...wish I could give you a big hug...well here is the best I can do {{{hug}}}Isn't it amazing that we are up to page 99....??? When I joined back in July we were at page 56 or 57 I think... Come on to the pig picken and we will have some of my sweet taters too. Thank you for your nice comment on my pear butter and all...so sweet of you. The south is loaded with wild hogs...we have so many around us, they will tear up everything if you don't shoot a few every now and then...it was just a few weeks ago that I saw my first live wild hog and since then I have seen them as close as 40 yards in front of my front porch. DH shot that one at about 75 yards.
Now we have Peggy, Nancy, Darlys and Ginny so far for the pig picken, oh how I wished we could really do it, never know maybe someday...so who else wants to be added?
Dianne, thank you for the kind words, I hope you had a great weekend
Patty, Love the bracelets...cool
Darlys, glad you like the site, me too...I found so much on it that I liked and tooo much to read, was having sleepy eyes last night trying to read it before bed. lol
I am cooking bacon, eggs and pancakes for supper with pear syrup...wow am I hungry now....check back later on everyone..
(((((Hugs All)))))Penny
Farmgirl Sister #3343
God gives Miracles to those who Believe, Courage to those with Faith, Hope to those who Dream, Love to those who Accept, & Forgiveness to those who Ask... |
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Acelady02
True Blue Farmgirl
1254 Posts
Penny
Washington
GA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 2:17:35 PM
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Hey Peggy, how is the packing going??????????????  And I need to know where to send your card, it is going to the post office tomorrow and I don't want it to get lost cause you up and moved, lol, without telling anyone your new address....just kidding, I know you won't do that....
Oh and want to tell all of you how well I am doing today, thanks in big part because of you ladies and your advice yesterday....
Wed is the corporation meeting, with MIL and FIL and DH....please pray it goes well and she doesn't act like an _ _ _!!!,  I'm to nice to spell that 3 letter word out on here...
Now don't forget to let me know and I will add you all to the pig picken....even if you can't be here for DH birthday pig picken, I will post pictures as soon as I can...Pig Picken Oct 29th...lol
 I love you ladies and you all have become my rock, well ya'll and DH...thank you
(((((Hugs All)))))Penny
Farmgirl Sister #3343
God gives Miracles to those who Believe, Courage to those with Faith, Hope to those who Dream, Love to those who Accept, & Forgiveness to those who Ask... |
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thebyrdhaus
True Blue Farmgirl
357 Posts
Patty
Carlinville
Il
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 3:34:42 PM
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OMGosh! I am so excited. It started raining here and I decided to go out and close the pigeon coop up. A month ago my hubby took 4 pigeons off to a bridal photo shoot. None of them came home. I was sad, but it is a risk you take. Today 2 of them returned! I just can't tell you how excited I am! I am really excited! Really, really!
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Patty #1840
A rind is a terrible thing to waste. Compost.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”
-Jesus in John 6:12 NIV Bible |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4231 Posts
Linda
Scranton
PA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 3:43:52 PM
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Patty the bracelets are beautiful! I luv them.
Penny, like your special spelling...LOL you are funny.
My son is wearing my witches hat...he loves it. He is 11 years old. We got him when I was 50 (adopted). Now you know a little about me.
Linda in PA
Linda in Scranton, PA
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Tall Holly
True Blue Farmgirl
723 Posts
Holly
Worcester
Vermont
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2011 : 4:42:49 PM
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Hello everyone,
I am going to post here after reading to the end of page 97.
Penny I am sorry your female inlaws are mean. I tell the children that people who are mean to others do not feel good about themselves inside. While we do not have to seek them out when they are near us we must be kind to show them that they are worth being kind to. Does that make any sense? A friend told us years ago that if you have a cat that is mean then you need to love it up more. I sometimes find that advice very hard to do.
Now this hog that waltzed into your yard and is now in the freezer. You did not have to put any time or money into it? It is like going deer hunting but it dresses out with more meat? WOW! I have eight hogs in my pen and we have to feed them everyday. There are no wild hogs running around up north here.
Last year our pigs free ranged but the neighbor was very vocal when they went down the hill twice last year. I do not want to be harassed so I penned them this year and pay more to feed them. I wish I could figure out how to keep them up on the top of the hill without a fence.
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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