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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 08:59:48 AM
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My name is Mary Jane and I live on 45 acres of land in a small town.
We used to farm most of it, now it is just our little piece of heaven.
I was born in Ontario Canada,but have lived in NY from the time I was 6. I am so glad to be an active part of MaryJane's farm girls. I have read all the posts for a long time. I feel like I know all of you already. You are so supportive and loving to each other. I have been married for 41 yrs. to my childhood sweetheart. I am a Mom and a Grandma. I love animals and kids and the country life. If I goof something up please be patient with me!! I have never done this before!
Farm girl hugs to all of you. Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
444 Posts |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 09:22:13 AM
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| Hi, Mary Jane! Are you anywhere near Sherman, and the Brushwood Folklore Center? I've gone to lots of festivals there over the years, and have always found the area to be just breathtaking. New York State in general is so much more amazing than most people realize. |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
2195 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 09:57:44 AM
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A BIG warm welcome to you Mary Jane! We have a lot in common, including our names! Married to my high school sweeetheart for 36 years, have 4 children and 11 grandchildren! One of my daughters goes to New York each year with her family! They LOVE New York! You will have to meet Nancy Jo! She is darling! I always wanted to go sit on her porch and visit with her...maybe you can do that for me! Wow, 45 acres! How lovely! So glad you found MaryJane's Farm and looking forward to getting to know you! You will love the farmgirls here! They are the best!
Hugs,
Maryjane Lee
The Beehive Cottage~
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Cindy Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Cindy
Sparks
Nevada
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 10:49:57 AM
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Hello MJ! Welcome to our little world! You will fit right I'm sure! Cindy
If life gives you scraps, make quilts! |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9094 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 11:26:50 AM
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Hi Mary Jane,
What part of NY are you from? I live outside of Buffalo. I used to live on a Farm in Houghton NY.
So happy you found this site.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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celebrate2727
True Blue Farmgirl
989 Posts
Beth
MJF
Farmgirl
989 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 11:34:05 AM
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Hi Mary Jane and welcome. So wonderful to have you here and it sounds like you will be just fine even as a new poster. You will find that the ladies here are the best around. Love, kindness, caring, supportive and bar none the smartest anywhere.
Have an Aunt in East Aurora and spent most of my summer growing up outside of Jamestown NY.
blessings
beth
I Can
http://blissnblossomfarm.com
http://lifeatbnbfarm.blogspot.com
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 1:03:57 PM
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Welcome to the group MaryJane..you will just love it here..I am glad you found us for sure!
Have fun!!
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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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 1:19:09 PM
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Thank all of you so much for your warm welcomes. We are about an hour from Buffalo, Rochester is closer to us, only a half hour at most. We are very close to Brockport NY. It is a college town and has just about everything that you could want. But, it still has that great small town feeling. I have been to East Aurora. The ride over there is so beautiful. When people think of NY they think of NYC and there is so much more country side than city.My most favorite part of NY is the Adirondacks. We love where we are,because it is so rural here and yet in a few minutes you are in town. We live 1800 feet off the road, so we are in a very private setting. In case you are wondering, we are back so far because we had greenhouses for a long time and this is very sheltered back here. We have a long winding gravel and dirt road. We have meadowlike fields now where we used to do most of the vegetable farming. There are also many acres of woods. We feel so blesssd to have this property. There are 2 houses back here. Ours and one that my Mom and Dad lived in. We rent that one out.It is far enough away that we each have our own privacy. Plus the rent pays the taxes!! Anything else you would like to know just ask. Oh, I almost forgot we also are proud parents of two dacshunds. Molly and Timmy.
Thanks again for the warm welcome, I know I will love it here. MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 1:51:12 PM
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Welcome to the forum, Mary Jane! I am sure you will love it here!
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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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 2:23:20 PM
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Mary Jane,
Welcome, so glad you introduced yourself and can post and tell us about yourself.
What a treat!!!!!
Carol Sue
Enjoying life. |
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Annie S
True Blue Farmgirl
756 Posts
Annie
Custer
S.D.
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 3:05:09 PM
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Welcome aboard Mary Jane. Glad you found us. You'll love it here. There's so much to learn and share. Your little piece of heaven sound so wonderful and peaceful.
Peace and love,
Annie |
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DeepsouthMamma
True Blue Farmgirl
1454 Posts
Autumn
Southwest Louisiana
USA
1454 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 3:34:32 PM
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Welcome Mary Jane
You are right about NY- I only envision the NYC images from tv.
I'm in the deep south about 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico-
Thanks for describing the NY I can only imagine.
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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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 3:52:02 PM
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Originally posted by celebrate2727
Hi
Have an Aunt in East Aurora and spent most of my summer growing up outside of Jamestown NY.
blessings
beth
Beth, one of the roommates I was assigned in my first semester at college was from East Aurora. I always wondered what it was like there. Now I have a much better idea!
Small world, innit? |
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laluna
True Blue Farmgirl
295 Posts
New York
USA
295 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 4:38:21 PM
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Hi and welcome MaryJane! You'll really enjoy it here...and it seems the WNY contingency continues to grow!  |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
1048 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 5:31:21 PM
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Yeah!!! Another farm girl from WNY! Welcome Mary Jane! I am in Avon! We are working on getting a WNY chapter together! Still in infant stages but e-mail me if you would like to be in the 'loop'!
Great to have you here!
Angie.
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2 |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2007 : 01:47:02 AM
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| Greetings, Mary Jane, and welcome to one awesome group of gals; you will fit RIGHT in, I can tell! Oh my, you might just have to "shuffle off to Buffalo" and hook up with Nancy Jo, and go thrifting.......NOBODY beats that gal for sifting through thrift and uncovering treasures!! Have a great day! Nance |
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mkmomus
True Blue Farmgirl
248 Posts
Merle
Greensboro
NC
248 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2007 : 1:56:22 PM
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Welcome Mary Jane. I am originally from Utica but now I am in NC. I love the Adirondacks as well. If fact when I waas up there this summer I got a brand new tee shirt the says "Adirondack Black Bear" with a nice graphic of.....a black bear! I am sure you will love it here.
Merle |
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2007 : 2:12:14 PM
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Welcome, Mary Jane! Your place sounds lovely. Oh... to have so much privacy and quiet! My sister-in-law grew up in Brockport! Her mom taught there. I'd forgotten the name until you mentioned it and always considered Jen was raised in Rochester. Like you, we have a house where my husband's parents lived next door, and from time to time let people we know and trust live there.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
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YiberryYadeeKarin
True Blue Farmgirl
343 Posts
Karin
Spokane Valley
WA
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2007 : 8:59:03 PM
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"spent most of my summer growing up outside of Jamestown NY.
blessings
beth"
Hey, Beth! My mom grew up in Jamestown and we went back there every other summer to visit my grandparents when I was growing up. My grandmother moved out with us in 1971, when my grandpa died, and the last time Mom was back there was 1985 (to bury Grandma's ashes there). I was there last October for just a little over a day. I had a wonderful time visiting places (my grandparents' old house, the Audubon center and grounds south of town, my great-grandparents' house in Youngsville, PA. The colors weren't yet totally at their peak but were beautiful... I could have spent more time there.
Also Mary Jane, WELCOME! Karin =) |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 07:36:10 AM
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| Hi, Mary Jane. I am very close to you, right in Rochester. And my mother grew up in Salamanca, NY, so I have spent some time in the Southern Tier as well. In fact, I am going down to Allegany State Park this weekend. Are you familiar with Hurd Orchards in Holley? I like to go out there for upick fruit. |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 08:25:53 AM
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Welcome, Mary Jane. Your place sounds so peaceful and serene. My husband's family had a dairy farm in upstate New York many years ago. It does seem that most folks think of NYC and don't realize there's a lot more to New York state. :)
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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cinnamongirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1682 Posts
Carrie
Canada
1682 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 10:17:38 AM
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| Hi there and welcome Marey Jane! |
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createmyworld
True Blue Farmgirl
295 Posts
Beth
Akron
PA
USA
295 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 2:21:19 PM
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Welcome Mary Jane!
Your property sounds like heaven! I've often wanted to make a trip up that way to visit the Corning glass museum, which I believe is near Rochester?... Although hubby and I live in Lancaster county PA, we spend a lot of our time in northern PA, and every time I see signs on Rte. 15 for the museum I keep bugging my husband to take me there! Enjoy the group, there's always so many great posts that I could spend days just enjoying reading everyone's wisdoms and experiences! |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 2:26:36 PM
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Hi AmieC,
Hurd Orchards is very close to where I live. It's up on Ridge Rd. Are you familiar with Ridge Rd. West? I have been to Hurd's a few times. There was a write up on Hurd's in Country Living magazine a few years ago. They are famous for their Jams and fruits. You would probably enjoy it. We have a dear friend that lives in Stueben County in the Southern Tier. Isn't the country lovely down there? Thanks for the welcome!
Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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