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| Jeanna |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 04:56:15 AM
If you have lived the country life all of your life do you ever stop and realize how you take it for granted. I read blogs and people will get excited because the saw a deer,bear,etc and I kind of chuckle.
The last couple of days I have been really thinking about how lucky I am to have lived here all my life. Even though times are tough I have been lucky enough to always have animals, a garden, a family, and the beautiful Smokey Mountains. So I am so grateful. What are you grateful for today?
Jeanna
Farmgirl Sister #41
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Nana Shirl |
Posted - May 30 2012 : 02:40:48 AM
One forgets how quiet it is on the prairie and how big the night sky is and the awe I feel looking at ALL those twinkling stars...when I go back to our lil town home and come back to the open lands ...the smell of the sage and the air is so good...ummm I do love it...why I can sit on my porch in my nightie and have coffee any time I want tooo...God is good....blessings farm girls...
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis |
| felixfelicis |
Posted - May 29 2012 : 9:12:12 PM
Reading the beginning of this thread made me laugh. I'm usually one in my group who is more country savvy, a few of my friends have never lived outside a large city or even gone hiking. Just the other day however, I was walking across the field that separates my dorm from the nearest houses and the rest of campus and I saw fireflies for the first time since visiting my relatives in Kansas years ago. I was so giddy I spent about half an hour following particular flies all over the field. I may have an advantage over the average city dweller but I still have a long way to go!
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Bertrand Russell |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - May 28 2012 : 4:40:55 PM
I love living in the country at the end of a half mile dirt road with no neighbors. Everyday I say thankyou for all of the beauty here and the peace. it would be easy to get angry or sad about the hardships of living rurally. I try very hard not to think of any of them and just enjoy the safety and peacefulness.
I appreciate that I can send the children out to play and not have to worry about anyone hurting them. I appreciate that I can grow our food in a helathy way. I appreciate that the sky is full of the sun, the clouds and the stars. I am grateful that I do not have to see people all the time and feel them pressing in on me.
it may be constant work to maintain the farm but it is good to feel the satisfaction of a job well done.
Holly
farmgirl #2499
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| laurzgot |
Posted - May 28 2012 : 08:51:47 AM
I've lived in the country most of my life, except for when I was a toddler. I remember walking through the woods to get to school. Having deer on my great garnmother's front porch. I love sitting out on my front porch or in my backyard drinking my hot tea and listing to the birds sing. Seeing wild rsbbits and hesring cyotoes. I have my own garden and just love it. My children lesrned alot growing up in the country and my granddaughter is lesrning the same. she just loves helping nana in the garden and seeing all the wildlife. It's a wonderful thing.
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart
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| Bornagainfarmgirl |
Posted - May 27 2012 : 8:42:39 PM
I was born and raised on a farm and all my life I took it for granted (even thought it 'uncool' in my teenage years). Now that my Papa is gone, and the family heritage with it, I miss it so bad I cry sometimes. I try so hard to remember it is in my heart though, and try to show my kids how important all 'farming', no matter how big or small, is to our society and way of life.
I love to wander country roads. |
| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - May 27 2012 : 8:26:25 PM
I spent time on the family farm when I was a little girl. I've lived most of the rest of my life in the city. You can't take the farm out of the girl. I'm thankful I had the experience.
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
| Annab |
Posted - May 27 2012 : 08:19:40 AM
After having family that grew 4-H steer and hogs for a living in rural Ohio, and being able to spend time on their farm as a kid, I always knew it was a lifestyle I could so enjoy. It was then, and it is now.
I moved to NC and married a hobby farmer almost 13 years ago. We live on 13 acres, farm about half of that and must drive 20 miles to the nearest "city" and must drive another 10 miles from that to really enjoy the nicities of even bigger city like Cincinnati.
But most days that so ok. I love farm life and will never take it for granted. The wildlife, the acres and acres we can roam on and enjoy. The bounty this land has to offer and the proof of THAT puddin' when we open a jar of Summer goodness in the dead of Winter!
You just can't beat it.
It's a hard life, and for anyone who does this for a living; hats off because you are at the mercy of everything and it 'ain't easy! |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - May 26 2012 : 8:48:36 PM
My mother has always been a "country girl" and would never live anywhere she could't keep a horse, so growing up we always lived on acreage.
Living in town was quite an adjustment!! my first apartment I had to pretend I was staying a hotel to keep sane. My second apartment bordered on a hay field and I could see horses if I craned my neck out the window. I was a bit more mellow by my third, and was happy to live next to a park with tall, old laurel trees shading my porch, driveway and bedroom window--- but it was quite an adjustment at first to leave the country!!
I'll never live in town again.
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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
~Erma Bombeck |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - May 26 2012 : 05:33:12 AM
My daughter grew up right here, in the country, on our family farm and is very much a "farmgirl". She is one of our "sisters". But she now lives in the city and when she is here and sees our starry night skies she says "oh, WOW, those are the stars!"
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
2010 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
Mother Hen: FARMGIRLS SOUTHWEST HENHOUSE
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from my hubby - www.aspenforge.blogspot.com |
| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - May 26 2012 : 03:48:30 AM
My daughter's boyfriend from CA stared at the sky and remarked, "I forgot that was the color of the sky." He was so used to the smog in So. Cal. Sad.
Of course, you always hear about how you can see so many more stars at night in the country. It is nice to be reminded of what we may take for granted.
Marianne |
| delicia |
Posted - May 25 2012 : 2:06:25 PM
I live in Cincinnati in a suburb but, I grew up in the Hills of Kentucky and I keep a picture where I can see it daily of my Mammaw's house. It was wonderful and I am so thankful and blessed to have grown up with such a wonderful Mammaw and Pappaw. I think of them daily.
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| paradiseplantation |
Posted - May 25 2012 : 06:17:17 AM
I know I'm blessed. I grew up in the city and moved out here eight years ago, and still stand in awe every day at the sheer beauty of the place. I even celebrate the hardships and tough times, as they let me know I'm growing as a Farm Wife. And of course, one of the best things is that I get to meet like minded farm women like y'all on the forum. You ladies are one of the biggest blessings!
from the hearts of paradise...
1Thess. 4:11
http://thefarmwife.com
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| natesgirl |
Posted - May 25 2012 : 05:57:49 AM
I definitely took my country life for granted!!!!
I'm livin in the very middle of a small town now, just 4 blocks from the square, and I'm in my own little h*ll. I'm tryin to make it as country as possible. I am coverin the porches with pots of plants, I'm buildin raised beds for more plants, and I am puttin in bird feeders and baths everywhere I can.
Love it while you have it!!! You never know when life might take it from you!!!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important? |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 3:05:59 PM
I have taken my family farm and my heritage of growing up on the farm for granted in the past. But, that's very much in the past and I'm so thankful for my heritage and what I learned and that I'm able to live on acreage that used to be part of our family farm.
Yes, GRATEFUL!
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
2010 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
Mother Hen: FARMGIRLS SOUTHWEST HENHOUSE
living life - www.snippetscja.blogspot.com
from my hands - www.cjscreations-ceejay.blogspot.com
the "Purple Thistle" http://www.ceejay48.etsy.com
from my heart - www.fromacelticheart.blogspot.com
from my hubby - www.aspenforge.blogspot.com |
| queenmushroom |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 07:36:28 AM
I've lived in the country for well over half of my life. The one time I did live in the city (what we call a city in Maine) it never dawned on me that most people who lived there couldn't see the stars at night. It took a visit to my parent to realize this. It is so true what you said. Wildlife where I live is generally out from dusk to dawn. The first time I saw a bear in the wild, I thought they were newfoundlands. I knew there weren't any in the town where I currently live. I'm proud to say my 4 1/2 yo son saw his first bear a month ago. One morning after I first moved here, my dh's dog started barking very early in the morning. I got up to see what was going on. There was a moose walking down our road in front of our house. We live at the end of a dead end dirt road. We are one of two houses on it, so it is very quiet and extremely rural.
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie |
| rphelps4 |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 06:23:43 AM
I know I feel so blessed to have lived on my 13 acres for the passed 34 years, I live in a big valley with lots of woods all around, so the wildlife is all around and share their beauty with me! I also think all the birds singing is natures concert. A lot of people ask me aren't you afraid living out there by yourself, I tell them no living in town seem much more scary to me! Roxanna |
| GirlwithHook |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 06:06:16 AM
I grew up in a small town and lived in an old house at the edge of a forest. I grew up watching deer, picking wildflowers, and trying to mimic the calls of a hundred different birds.
Now I live in the heart of a city, and I do miss the woods so! I hope we find land out in the country to build our house...should mention that part to Mister.
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
| jan49829 |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 06:00:17 AM
yes, indeed!!!! How wonderful life is when you are able to see animals, see nature itself, and be capable to get around. I was in a wheelchair for 2 1/2 years and was determined that I was not going to spend the rest of my life in that chair. I amazed all the drs. and am getting along so well now with my handicaps. I go slower than most, but it feels so good to watch the birds, bees, butterflies, squirrels, rabbits, and all living creatures. They are so busy living to survive, we take those things for granted. God made such beautiful creatures for us to be able to see. Life is good!!!
Janet
Farmgirl Sister #3340
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| MiaBella |
Posted - May 24 2012 : 05:07:06 AM
I AM! I have always wanted land of my own but could not afford it or could not find what I was looking for.
I have been living on 22 acres for the past 5 years and never ever want to move again in my life! I've had animals come and go, grow a garden every year, spend quiet time out by our pond just listening to the birds sing, take walks with my dogs out to the back pasture. I love it here!
Michelle
Farmgirl Sister #4097
MiaBella Farm
New Caney, TX
www.miabellafarm.com |
