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ColdAntler
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Jenna
Sandgate
VT
USA
89 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:09:26 PM
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hey all!
My name is Jenna, I'm a new farm girl in North Idaho. My homestead is called Cold Antler Farm, and you can see all of my antics at itsfarwalk.blogspot.com or itsafarwalk.com. I came up here by way of The great smoky mountains of tennessee, and share my home with two fluffy siberian huskies (who are working dogs!), nine chickens, a hive of honey bees, and a few gregarious rabbits. I live on a rented-retired cattle farm about 60 miles south of the Canadian Border in the Idaho Rockies. Here I write, garden, train dogs, sew, knit, spin, bake and play my fiddle. I'm working on writing my first book, which has been signed and I'm excited!
So this is my howdy, and i hope to get to know you fine people more and soon.
best and more
-j |
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:13:13 PM
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Welcome Jenna!I have a close friend that lives in Priest River. That is such a beautiful part of the country where you live. Happy to have you with us, I'm sure you'll love it here! 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! |
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:14:18 PM
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Hey There jenna!! Great to know ya!!
welcome!!!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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ColdAntler
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Jenna
Sandgate
VT
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:23:44 PM
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thanks! here are my farm-mates
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:41:35 PM
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Oh my!! Aren't they gorgeous!!!
The Red one seems to like the taste of that White stuff too!!
What is that?? SNOW?? Do you call it there ??
Beautiful Dogs Jenna!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
444 Posts |
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
2460 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:42:26 PM
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So I noticed on your blog that your raise silkies.....me too. :o) Just hatched 3 babies. They are sooo fun. An idea for getting them ready for fair.....after you bathe them with warm water and dish soap, use you blow dryer on low to make them really fluffy. At first, they act like to are killing them, but they get used to it and really look nice.
Also, make sure thay clean their feet really good. Judges usually have a thing about their feet.
Good luck at fair and post pics of the ribbons you win and of course, that darling silkie.
sherone
www.taylorscountrystore.etsy.com
http://sheronesgarden.tripod.com/
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ColdAntler
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Jenna
Sandgate
VT
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 4:45:50 PM
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thanks for the tip, yup I have 5 silkies i raised from chicks this spring! I will blowdry them for sure and clean those feet. how many days in advance did you prep yours?
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Linda K. Miller
Farmgirl in Training
43 Posts
Linda
Dunnville
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 5:05:52 PM
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Hello & Welcome Jenna!!
You are one busy farm girl!! Your dogs are beautiful, what are their names?? Jenna you are going to love it here with all these wonderful farm girls. I am so glad you pulled up a chair, enjoy your stay.
Justmama from Amish Kentucky |
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janetinva123
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Janet
newport news
va
USA
363 Posts |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 5:41:07 PM
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Jenna, Welcome love the picture.
Jump right in.
Carol Sue
Enjoying life. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 5:57:41 PM
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WElcome Jenna!! So glad you found us. Your pups are so pretty!! I love the dark one's smile!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 6:20:11 PM
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| Welcome Jenna - are those Siberian Huskies? I just took my son to South Dakota to pick up a pup that looks a lot like your red one. |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 6:36:44 PM
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Welcome to the forum! You'll have to come down to Moscow to meet some of us that are down here some day!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora!
http://home.test-afl.tulix.com/aleeandnora/ |
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cabinmoose
True Blue Farmgirl
218 Posts
Lorna
Forest Hill
MD
USA
218 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 6:40:46 PM
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Welcome, Jenna! I was wondering where the cold antler came from?
You will love it here!
Cheers,
Lorna
Forest Hill, MD
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too, So we're really
not that different, me and you.” ~Colin Raye |
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DeepsouthMamma
True Blue Farmgirl
1454 Posts
Autumn
Southwest Louisiana
USA
1454 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 7:12:57 PM
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Welcome Jenna! What's the book about??
Sounds like you have the kind of life that makes a good book.
So THAT'S what snow looks like. :)
Autumn
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 01:40:21 AM
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Your place sounds wonderful! And how neat that you enjoy so many things! I also enjoy writing and wish you the very best on your book! That is a wonderful accomplishment! I am looking forward to hearing more about your life, place, and hobbies! I do so hope you enjoy it here on our wonderful farm!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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katiem
Farmgirl in Training
25 Posts
kate
memphis
tennessee
USA
25 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 05:17:19 AM
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Jenna,
Just checked out your website. Completely awesome. You are very talented. I work in the field of graphic arts, but am self taught and will never call my self a graphic artist again after seeing your site. I am truly just a glorified printer. I work at an invitation/stationery store in their in-house printing department . I actually am thier in-house printing dept.
When I came there to work a year and a half ago, they had a tiny computer running one epson C88 desktop inkjet printer. They are very tight on their budget. Since I came I have gotten them to add, a new computer with a 17 in. monitor ( I was using aboun an 11 in.) a scanner, 2 more inkjet printers and an inexpensive color laser printer. We scan customer's photos or artwork to put on invitations or notecards. I also do line drawings to print on invitations, etc. We print anywhere from 300 - 800 pieces per day. It's nothing fancy but I love doing it. And the other gals who work at the shop know nothing about printing or graphics and they think I'm a genius. Little do they know.
I would love to do what you are doing - in terms of your lifestyle. Tell us more about your book yu are writing. I share some of your same interests. Unfortunately, I don't live in an area very conducive to thier pursuits. ( at least some of them)
Well, good luck and hope to hear more from you. I'm new too to this forum. My only problem with it is the amount of time it is possible to spend here at this computer typing all this stuff. I got other stuff I need to be doing.
See ya.
kate ( in the delta of Memphis, Tennessee)
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 05:56:10 AM
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Hi, Jenna. Welcome from Kentucky. As much as I don't like winter, the snow in your photo is looking pretty good today-LOL! We're forecast to have record breaking heat again today and never ending drought! Your dogs are just beautiful!
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 08:49:49 AM
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| Welcome, Jenna! Cute dogs, and LOVE the snow photo.....miss that stuff! Tell us about your book, please and thanks! Nance |
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ColdAntler
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Jenna
Sandgate
VT
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 09:02:52 AM
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shucks!
thanks for all the kind words and gentle greetings. I'll try to anwser up some of these questions. My dogs are named Jazz (red) and Annie (black) they are 6 and 5 years old respectively and come from Tennessee Sled Dog Rescue outside Knoxville. WE all lived back in the smokies till we came out to Idaho with my homesteading high hopes. I work as an email designer for Coldwater Creek, here in Sandpoint. But Work is only 4 miles from the farm so I can bike or drive back at lunch to sit on the deck and eat lunch with the chickens and the fiddle.
Cold Antler Farm isn't an address, it's an Idea. Cold Antler will be the name of my homestead no matter where it is. I love the archaic imagery of antlers and deer in ancient cultures. Deer was the symbol of the masculine, and I'm a hopeless romantic hoping to find my own "antlers" some day. A dreamy guy who likes the daily show as much as daily milking goats. The Cold part comes from my love of winter and snow, and the Cold Mountain poems of Han San, the zen buddhist monk. My heart is in Appalachia too, and I'llreturn to Tennessee someday, the book "Cold Mountain" also used Han San's poems about returning home to Appalachia. It all falls into a lot of Hope. Cold Antler Farm, is about hope.
The most important things in my life are my friends, my dogs, making music and my little farm. I'm hoping to find other Idaho farm girls who want to learn the fiddle or dulcimer so I can teach and learn with them.
here's a picture of Cold Antler, this past winter. It's open for staying over night through the UU're Home project soon! So if any of you ladies need a nice place to stay when you're visiting Mary jane's (I'm about 2.5 hours north)
and here's a picture of the town pof Sandpoint, Idaho. pop 8,150. Taken above town looking over the lake.
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paradiseplantation
True Blue Farmgirl
1277 Posts
julie
social springs community
Louisiana
USA
1277 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 10:04:08 AM
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Hi, Jenna, from Louisiana! I envy you your bees. That's still on my list of things to do, but I'm hoping I can push it up to the top, soon!
julie |
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
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