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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:09:00 PM
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Well, after cruising around here for a few days and reading all of the wonderful sharing, I decided that I HAD to be part of this amazing group of women. My husband and I and our 2 teenage girls live on a little less than 2 acres and thanks to our involvement with 4-H, have a "mini-farm" with chickens, rabbits, pigs, dogs, and a cat. Who knew it would be so much fun reviving the skills (gardening, canning, sewing, etc)of my grandma? Looking forward to many exciting and interesting exchanges with the other farm girls!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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lovelady
True Blue Farmgirl
533 Posts
Toni
Indiana
USA
533 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:15:23 PM
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Hi Kelly! Welcome! You live in one of the most beautiful states, but I am sure you already knew that! Our boys are too young to be in 4-H yet, but I am sure they will be very active in it when they can. My husband is on our 4-H Fairboard and the Council, so we are pretty involved in our county's program. It is such a great thing for kids to be involved in!
Glad you joined and I am looking forward to getting to know you more! Have a great weekend! |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:18:36 PM
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Welcome Kelly, from lil'ol' me in north Idaho =) I know you will love it here! What kind of pigs do you raise? and chickens? I currently just have a rooster of mixed breed who follows me around the yard! So glad that you're here! hope to get to know you. We are a busy bunch of gals with a million projects going at once. Enjoy!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
716 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:37:04 PM
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Welcome Kelly. You are going to like it here. I am new too, but it really doesn't feel like it. Everyone is so friendly and helpful and this is a happening place.
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:38:25 PM
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Thank you all for your warm welcome! Annika, we're almost neighbors. I am in the NW corner of MT...about 45 minutes from Glacier National Park and an hour or so south of Canada. It IS a beautiful place to be. We're about 7 hours from Lewistown though.
Right now our pigs are York/Hamshire/Durok crosses, but next year we will raise at least one Large Black. I'm such a foodie, that I'm very interested is seeing the micro-marbling of that pork (that, and it's higher in Omega 3). We have a mixture of chickens (buff orpingtons, barred rocks, Americaunas, spotted Sussex, and a rose-breasted leghorn)...most are still laying, but the the oldest two are 8 years old and are pets..they'll live out their lives as "yard ornaments". Nothing beats fresh eggs!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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wild daisy
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Madelynne
Billings
Montana
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 7:59:23 PM
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Kelly I will be up in the Flathead Valley during the Fourth of July weekend. We are going to be at the Polebridge parade at noon. It is a very small parade but worth the entertaining value. I hope to move back up to our property in about 4 years. We have 5 acres just south of Kila and want to build our dream home.
Madelynne
johnandmadelynne.blogspot.com |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 8:46:12 PM
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WElcome Kelly!! I am a 4H mom too..and love it! I am so glad you are joining us..it will be fun to ge to know you.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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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Tidy Aprons
True Blue Farmgirl
99 Posts
Oney Farmgirl #638
Colorado
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2009 : 8:55:17 PM
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Hi Kelly! Nice to meet you. I'm a newbie too but I agree...I just had to become a part of this group of neat women!
~Oney~
"There's something a little holy in taking care of the places we inhabit, in summoning sheen. And there's a power in watching over our spaces, the rooms we move within, the sets where our life stories unfold." ~Lori Hall Steele |
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Tapestry
True Blue Farmgirl
1223 Posts
Cheryl
Wisconsin
USA
1223 Posts |
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
2355 Posts |
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ranchmama
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Elise
Rosebud
MT
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 08:14:32 AM
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Hi Kelly! Welcome from another Montana farmgirl! I live near Miles City, would love to get up to Glacier and see all of that country someday.
Enjoy yourself here, all the gals are great!
Elise
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
http://ATeddyForKeeps.org
http://ranchmama.blogspot.com/ |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 08:16:35 AM
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Madelynne, the 4th of July celebration in Polebridge is a hoot! Have you been before? For a tiny little remote mountain town that only gets mail twice a week, the 4th of July at least quadrubples the population. It's been awhile since we've ventured up there....have a great time!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
5216 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 10:50:18 AM
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Welcome Kelly!!! 
It sounds like you will fit right in :) I know that you will love it here :) The girls here are great and always willing to lend a helping hand. I look forward to getting to know you! :)
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 11:33:09 AM
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I would LOVE to go to the celebration over the 4th! Unfortunately the timing just isn't going to work this year. Each July a bunch of cousins meet at Priest Lake, ID and spend a fabulous week relaxing, catching up, and enjoying each other's company. We come from CT, Chicago, TX, CA, WA, MT, and ID...there are about 30 of us all told. I plan and cook the meals for our 2 cabins for the week, so I'll be up to my ears in planning about the time the 4th rolls around. Maybe next year.
Alee...yeah, I'm a ways from Laurel. I think I'm closer to Seattle than I am to you! LOL
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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YiberryYadeeKarin
True Blue Farmgirl
343 Posts
Karin
Spokane Valley
WA
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 8:39:40 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by 4HMom
<<I am in the NW corner of MT...about 45 minutes from Glacier National Park and an hour or so south of Canada. It IS a beautiful place to be.>>
Hi, Kelly! I'm in Washington State, right next to the Idaho border (I work in northern Idaho). Just last week my dd and I were in your neck of the woods. We were in Libby, Kalispell, the Bison Range, Missoula, and Garnet (a ghost town). YEARS ago, 1977, I worked for the Forest Service in Eureka and have been through Glacier many times, so know the area where you live. Really beautiful. Are you a native Montanan?
Welcome! Karin =) |
Edited by - YiberryYadeeKarin on Jun 27 2009 8:42:36 PM |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 8:44:05 PM
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Hi Karin,
Yes, my husband and I are both native Montanan's. His family homesteaded here in the Flathead Valley and my great grandparent immigrated from Germany to eastern Montana. You drove right by if you went through Kalispell LOL. Do you still work for the Forest Service?
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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Mother Hen
True Blue Farmgirl
604 Posts
Cindy
Peck
ID
USA
604 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2009 : 10:25:34 PM
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Kelly, Welcome. I'm a 4 H mom also, for 4 years now. Sounds like you'll really like it here, the women are wonderful and very knowledgeable.
Cindy
FARMGIRLS CAN DO ANYTHING!!!
I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalms 34:1 |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 10:44:15 AM
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Hi Cindy,
What kinds of projects are your kids involved in? My two girls are so diverse, the only thing they have in common is raising hogs.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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YiberryYadeeKarin
True Blue Farmgirl
343 Posts
Karin
Spokane Valley
WA
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 2:12:30 PM
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Kelly, the last year I worked for the Forest Service was in 1984. After that I was a Smoky Bear hat wearing Park Ranger at various parks around the country (in MT, VA, SD, ID, and AZ), I gave all that up when I married my Canadian husband. We lived in the Yukon the first summer we were married, then in Kimberley, BC. I'm a Spokane native and we moved here in 1991. When my now ex got tired of being married (1991), I was thrown back into the workforce and this time tried library work. I LOVE it and now drive a 36 foot long bookmobile in northern Idaho. I just wish it paid a liveable wage or was at least fulltime.
Are you in Kalispell, Whitefish, Columbia Falls... ???
It's GREAT to have you here! Karin |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 2:21:42 PM
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Welcome, Kelly. I really look forward to hearing more about you and your family in Montana!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 2:34:17 PM
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Hi Karin,
I'm in Kalispell...actually a little ways south and west of Kalispell. You've had some great sounding adventures. My bachelors degree is in wildlife biology, so my path crossed a lot of Forest Service and Park Service folks. I've been teaching science now for 20 years, so those agency contacts have come in very handy!
I remember book mobiles! I went to a one-room country school when I was in grade school, and that's how we got library books! Do you get up as far north as Priest River?
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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wild daisy
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Madelynne
Billings
Montana
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 5:57:35 PM
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Kelly, I just moved from Kalispell last June. My husband was working at the Meadow Gold Dairy and after it close was transferred down to the Billings plant. We still have our 5 acre lot just south of Kila. Yes I have been to the Polebridge parade many times and it is a real hoot. We will also be staying at our friends cabin up the North Fork on Trail Creek. It is about 6 miles south of the border. Have fun on the fourth with your family.
I might be moving back up there in about 4 years from now. My husband will be able to take an early retirement at 53 with full benefits. Yeah.... How I miss that area.
Madelynne
johnandmadelynne.blogspot.com |
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
716 Posts |
Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 6:01:28 PM
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Welcome Kelly,
This is a great place to visit and make friends. I am looking forward to getting to know you.
Sharlet |
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