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Eliz~
Farmgirl in Training
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Elizabeth
Saint Cloud
MN
USA
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 Posted - Sep 04 2018 : 10:29:35 PM
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We are in the woods at our summer farm (Winnie gave me the idea to call it that :o) Thanks Winnie!! We will go home Oct 3. Sometimes when I get home I don't have time to decorate. This year fingers crossed I will!
I love Fall. First thing we look for in the woods is the mosquito die off! Unfortunately its been so hot and humid they are alive and well. :o( Also horse flies and Deer flies are usually gone in Fall. But heat and sunshine have brought a few out yet. The only thing I hate about Fall?? Asian Ladybugs going into every building here.
I'm dreaming of crisp cool air!
Joyfully, Eliz~ |
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
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Posted - Sep 05 2018 : 07:02:15 AM
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Hey Eliz, I am proud to have been the person to name your lovely Summer Farm!! Thank-you for the compliment!!
I know that many people love the fall season but rarely decorate. It is just a matter of preference. For me, surrounding myself with fall colors and unique harvest themed things like pumpkins or mums, just makes me feel happy. That is really why I do what I do. Growing up in Charlottesville, Va which is at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mts, Fall was a real tangible change of the landscape with colored leaves, chilly temps, apple barns full of orchard apples of many varieties , and pumpkins out in farm fields with lots of feet corn fields drying. My Mom never decorated the house because we lived in the middle of those landscape changes. How I knew it was fall was that we brought out our sweaters, a new school year was rolling out, trips to get bushels of apples to can and eat ,leaves piled up in the back yard and we jumped in them before they were burned and mulched, and putting the storm windows in place for the cold weather all happened each year. Every Halloween we would get a huge pumpkin for the porch and Mom would scrape out all of the flesh to cook before we carved the face. Halloween was the first pumpkin pie for dinner of the season!! We kids loved that so much!! The rest of the cooked pumpkin meat was frozen for our Thanksgiving and Christmas pumpkin pies. Fall was about living the change. Here in Florida, however, that does not happen because we live in a semi-tropical climate. I discovered that I still crave those same traditions I grew up with so now I just re-create the Fall of my youth inside my home.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2018 : 11:11:36 AM
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It's candy corn time and I can't wait to get my first bag of candy corn. Maybe I should indulge in a small bag of candy pumpkins too. Oh my, the simple joys of Fall!
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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Daizy
True Blue Farmgirl
992 Posts
Daizy
Talladega
Alabama
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2018 : 1:34:20 PM
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Hay there.
Mz Winnie, your meanderings brought back so many memories for me. We also let the outdoors be our decorations. We were always busy with the end of summer chores so the house didn't get a "dress up". Hahaha, it did good to get a CLEAN UP but the kitchen was cleaned from top to bottom. I suppose it was in preparation for Thanksgiving. I still live on the ranch but I love to have some of the great outdoors inside.....and I don't can near as much as my parents and grandparents coz I don't have a garden like our 2 acre one of days gone by. All in all, if the windows get opened and I can have a small fire outside in fire pit, then I will be a lucky lady. (I think I will gather some pinecones and tall grasses and rose hips and enjoy them!)
Hugs,
Daizy
Farmgirl #1093
Hugs and prayers, Daizy #1093
Poor House Farmgirl Chapter {A virtual chapter open to everyone.}
A good day is when you find ALL your ear tags! I wonder how my cows would like my Farmgirl apron??
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Daizy
True Blue Farmgirl
992 Posts
Daizy
Talladega
Alabama
USA
992 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2018 : 1:35:02 PM
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....and pass the candy corn!!
Hugs and prayers, Daizy #1093
Poor House Farmgirl Chapter {A virtual chapter open to everyone.}
A good day is when you find ALL your ear tags! I wonder how my cows would like my Farmgirl apron??
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Eliz~
Farmgirl in Training
47 Posts
Elizabeth
Saint Cloud
MN
USA
47 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2018 : 8:59:12 PM
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Very few northern MN trees have turned colors. I think the weather man said the warmer weather was delaying it? It needs cooler weather and rain? Kinda missed it! :o)
Winnie, you are welcome! :o)
Joyfully, Eliz~ |
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6733 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6733 Posts |
Posted - Sep 12 2018 : 1:05:49 PM
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Hehe, Sara, I have already found the candy corn and enjoyed a bag!!!Then I found the pumpkin candy corns and still working and enjoying those!! Fall isn't Fall for me until the candy pumpkins arrive. Love those silly things!! LOL@@
Well, we are all watching Hurricane Florence carefully down here. There is one model that has Florence hanging off the coast and drifting as far south as Jacksonville, Fla. which will then mean we will get heavy rains and winds here in Gainesville. NO real fall feeling here with temps about 93 degrees, humid the the weight of a possible hurricane filling our minds!! LOL!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9543 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Sep 12 2018 : 3:09:52 PM
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Oh gosh Winnie, for me Fall isn't Fall until the popcorn balls come out! I found them today.  All my Fall decorating is done except for the porch. It is too wet and nasty to put things out there yet. But it has been fun doing the swaps and using the things I've received to decorate my home.
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2018 : 7:49:07 PM
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Fall is my favorite season too. I pick Chinese lanterns and cut off the leaves to dry. I love to find bittersweet and cut off these leaves to dry. I have made a table runner and a small wool appliqué wall hanging, I use these for decorating. I have some fall c oleoresins hand woven placemats for the table too. One year I bought a nut wreath and stored it to use for Christmas. I had stored it in the wrapping paper box. When I went to get it out it was just full of tiny bugs, the kind that get in cereal. Ugh! It took a long time to get rid of them. I won't use nuts again unless they are frozen first.
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
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CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2018 : 8:59:31 PM
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I'll decorate a bit later this month. We're planning a trip to Oregon in early October and will be going 1 1/2 weeks. I usually do a month or so of apple themed decorations because I live next to the apple orchard that I grew up in and apples are one of the farm crops we had on our farm, but I don't think apples are going to happen this year unless they get incorporated into the other fall stuff I do.
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
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wildflower17
True Blue Farmgirl
3043 Posts
Judy
KY
USA
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Posted - Sep 14 2018 : 10:22:22 AM
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CJ I hope you have a very fun and enjoyable trip to Oregon. Seems as if September is flying by...Have started some decorating...Need to finish up. Have been trying to get some last minute freezing done while we still have fresh vegetables in our area.
Hugs!
Judy
God Has Been So Good To Me!!!
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened"...
"Country Girl at Heart...Blessed Beyond Measure"!!!
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