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| oregonatural |
Posted - Jan 24 2012 : 8:24:56 PM
I'm finally getting around to a formal howdy! So delighted to have found my way to the MJF Farmgirl Connection. I've been cruising around on here and having the best time!
We live off grid in a 500 sq.ft hand-hewn cabin in the mountains 60 miles east of Crater Lake Nat'l park in what is called the high desert of Central Oregon. That means we have pine trees and sage brush both ;-}
We have 3 horses, 2 dogs, a garden (that is under a lot of snow just now) and about 10 miles of bad road to get in or out of here, but it's spectacular once you're here.
I cook on a wood cookstove every day. My husband has a solar-powered woodshop and I have a solar-powered sewing loft. I love to sew and garden and am learning to weave wild willow. (say that 3 times fast)
Living in such a remote location, it's a pure pleasure to have internet access and the opportunity to interact with all of you great gals. Do I get cabin fever? Occasionally, but only in the darkest depths of winter. The rest of the time I'm too busy!
Looking forward to lots of Farmgirl adventures with you. Next I'll have to start working on those badges!
My random wacky off-grid blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
Blessings on you from the bottom of my mountain girl heart! |
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Feb 23 2012 : 9:43:44 PM
Susan,
Welcome to the Connection . . . lots to do, lots of fun and lots of farmgirl friends here!
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 |
| oregonatural |
Posted - Feb 16 2012 : 10:12:17 AM
Well this is just delightful! So many new friends. You gals save me every day. Over and over. You have no idea.
Thank you!
Susan
My off-grid homestead blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
ETSY Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/OregonNatural
Blessings to you from my mountain girl heart! |
| frannie |
Posted - Feb 10 2012 : 08:40:52 AM
welcome susan,like many of the otherjfarmgirls here, i love your life. and thanks for blogging about it. i cant wait to learn more about your life off the grid!
love
frannie in texas
farmgirl sister#807
home of "green"crafts,
where no scrap is left behind
(http://abunnystale.wordpress.com/)
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| oregonatural |
Posted - Feb 07 2012 : 8:50:00 PM
Thank you so very much for the howdy-do's. I am very much in awe of the farmgirls and the connections we share. You know my grandmothers would have been proud of us! I can't recall seeing either of them without an apron and usually a dishtowel slung over their shoulder.
Susan
My random wacky off-grid blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
Blessings on you from the bottom of my mountain girl heart! |
| Sharon Denise |
Posted - Feb 05 2012 : 4:20:29 PM
Welcome, Susan! You're living the lifestyle my husband and I are slowly preparing for. I've started following your blog. I hope you continue to share news from your slice of heaven!
Farmgirl Sister #3754
www.facebook.com/bellcountybelles
http://bellcountybelle.blogspot.com/
http://pinterest.com/bluemonarch/
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
~Louis L'Amour |
| Luzy |
Posted - Feb 05 2012 : 10:10:38 AM
Hi Susan and welcome!! I'm so happy you found us! I too live off the grid in Colo. I also really enjoyed your Blog and videos, especially the "Rangy Coot"! Wow! He is one industrious species! Can you look into a breeding program and send one my way?? Ha! I'm lucky to have a Hubby that's a great "fixer", "doer" too! Anyhoo, I subscribed to your Blog, so I look forward to your continued adventures!
Big hugs, Lu
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
http://luzy.etsy.com- My etsy store! |
| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - Feb 05 2012 : 04:43:55 AM
Susan,
A big Wisconsin hay dare to ya! We are so glad you joined us. I love your blog and am now following you. You are living the life my Husband dreams of, me, maybe half of it!
http://studiodiphotosite.shutterfly.com/
farmgirl sister #922
I am trying to be the person my dogs think I am.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White |
| lindagwynn |
Posted - Feb 04 2012 : 09:02:38 AM
Susan I visited your etsy shop and bought one of the birch soap dish trays for my kitchen sink and my scrubbies. Very clever idea and useful. I think of your homestead when I am washing dishes and dreaming about our own.
Thank you
With lots of hugs and smiles, have a great day. |
| oregonatural |
Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 7:49:59 PM
Thanks so much for your kind words gals!
Heidi, I signed up to follow your blog as you start your next adventure I'll be rooting for you!
Jeannie, All I can say is, age is just a state of mind, don't hold back! I may be older and slower, but I keep movin! If you just keep in motion, time can't catch you! Well, some days it DOES catch me and you know what? I let it. I sit down and sew or read a book. It's OK, the chores will still be there when I get up again. Ye haw!
Thanks for the follows Linda and Jennifer! I love the connections I'm making. This is so wonderful.
Blessings,
Have a great week!
Susan
My random wacky off-grid blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
Blessings on you from the bottom of my mountain girl heart! |
| whitewolfsummitfarmgirl |
Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 6:48:59 PM
Hi Susan,
Welcome to the Connection. I am new myself so I don't know much yet. I have driven through your country once or twice. It's beautiful and the highway we took back to Interstate 5 was filled with more waterfalls than I have ever seen. Amazing country Oregon. I am very interested in off-grid and solar living so I will look forward to every post. Have a great week. Stay warm. |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 1:49:19 PM
Wowsers, I love your blog. You are doing what I have always dreamed of doing, but then I back away because of the physical strength needed, and the fear, yes fear of emergencies happening being so far out. That is something my mom would have said! I truly admire you, because we are only two years apart in age. I am 62. You are very cool. This from another person who loves solitude and quiet.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| Bayou Girl |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 7:19:19 PM
Welcome, Susan, from Southeast Arkansas! All I can say is that you and your lifestyle are an inspiration for me. I will definitely be following you on your site!
~Jennifer. #3803 |
| lindagwynn |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 11:12:01 AM
Thank you for answering Susan and I tried to create a new topic but I do not know where it went.
With lots of hugs and smiles, have a great day. |
| sjmjgirl |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 09:39:43 AM
Welcome Oregon! Glad to see you!
Farmgirl Sister # 3810
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Dalai Lama |
| oregonatural |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 07:28:04 AM
Lindagwynn, You must be within site of Mt Baker! I love that area. Where will you be moving to start your wilderness adventure? I know what you mean about the pioneers. I've read literally dozens of books about the pioneer experience and I always feel as though I was there.
Why don't you start a new thread under the welcome wagon forum so we can all identify you and welcome you properly? I'm sure so many on here would love to hear about what you are doing!!
Blessings,
Susan
My random wacky off-grid blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
Blessings on you from the bottom of my mountain girl heart! |
| CountryKim |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 06:58:10 AM
Susan, I have just signed up by e-mail to follow you. I love this!!! Thank you!
Forever farmgirl
http://throughethelseyes.blogspot.com/ |
| prayin granny |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 05:33:08 AM
Susan,
Checking out your blog and enjoying it! Thanks for sharing with us! I too am more into solitude?!
Life and health over the last few years has caused me to leave the more rural life and acerage, for an apt in a large suburban area. An adjustment for certain? Yet my 'farmgirl' ways are coming out and I am finding ways to keep a small container garden on the balcony and make more of my own things. Still working on the quieter more reflective days.
Enjoy the forums!
Blessings,
Linda
www.scatteredlittleblessings.blogspot.com |
| prayin granny |
Posted - Jan 29 2012 : 05:22:59 AM
A hearty welcome Susan from Ks!
You are living my ideal dream life with a lovely cabin house !
Enjoy the forums and jump right in! The forums and Farmgirls are such fun and a blessing!
Welcome!
Blessings,
Linda
www.scatteredlittleblessings.blogspot.com |
| lindagwynn |
Posted - Jan 28 2012 : 8:33:59 PM
Hello everyone and thank you for the warm welcome. I am very pleased to have found this sight and be able to connect with all you wonderful farm girls. I am preparing for a move to the wilderness soon with my daughter her husband and two sons. We have been planning and preparing for this for two years. The money has just arrived and we are finally going to do it. I am thrilled and scared. But I love an adventure and have always thought I was born in the wrong generation. I am always looking off into the hills and thinking of the pioneers and their incredible adventures.I am looking forward to this new adventure. I am learning so much from the internet and the people that share on it. It is wonderful. Life could not be better.
With lots of hugs and smiles, have a great day. |
| lindagwynn |
Posted - Jan 28 2012 : 8:27:25 PM
I loved visiting your sight. It is so full of good information and reality checks. I am glad you found your way to this blog also. I am just trying to figure it all out and how to move around in it.
With lots of hugs and smiles, have a great day. |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jan 28 2012 : 08:34:10 AM
Welcome Susan - glad to have you here!!
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| oregonatural |
Posted - Jan 26 2012 : 6:08:49 PM
Thanks for the warm welcomes! To answer some of your questions...
Karin, We're solar so we have power for computers and such. I get internet from a broadband connection about 13 miles across the valley. In fact it's more reliable than my cell phone up here.
Diana, Thanks for the welcome. I've been through Orofino. A really beautiful area! Looked for property up that way when my son was going to school in Pullman.
Marly, I've never been to Louisiana. Have you lived there a long time? How do you happen to be Bear5?
Winnie, What makes you Red Tractor Girl? A Farmall? I'll post a photo or two here if I can figure out how.
Debbie, Our cabin isn't log but the lumber was all logged onsite and cut with an Alaska Mill. My husband's first cabin was log and burned down in a forest fire in 1992. We're hoping to build a small log guest cabin next year.
Laurie and Karla, I suppose you are gardening in Florida already. Oh my, that is months away for me.
There's more pics on my blog (listed below).
Leslea, I've been through Tn, really beautiful there. Thanks for the welcome!
Susan
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My random wacky off-grid blog: http://oregonnatural.blogspot.com/
Blessings on you from the bottom of my mountain girl heart! |
| osbornefarms |
Posted - Jan 25 2012 : 7:13:54 PM
Welcome Susan,I really in joyed your blog and videos. I also live off the grid here in Tn. Love your cabin. Talk to you soon. |
| hoosiercountry |
Posted - Jan 25 2012 : 5:27:47 PM
Welcome Susan, look forward to hearing from you and would love to see some pictures of your area. Karla |
| RosesAreRed |
Posted - Jan 25 2012 : 5:20:48 PM
Welcome! I very interested in your living off grid lifestyle! Please tell us all about it! |
