We have become too used to shopping for all our needs. A self-sufficient lifestyle is not an easy way to live.
Where's j0ker????? - Part 2
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In the summer months, I hope.Yeah, I know - the pups and I might just have to move up there for a few months. That wouldn't be so bad!
A self-sufficient lifestyle is soooo hard! There's no way a wife could work nowadays to supplement income while making all her own soap, cheese, butter, walnut husking, gardening, food preservation, deer/elk hunting/butchering/packaging, etc. What I hated was plucking and cutting up chickens, making cheese, cutting the kernels off corn cobs and splitting my own kindling - so glad I'm not doing it any more. Making candles, butter and yogurt was fun, though. And those old johnny popper wood stoves for the only heating was sad.
That was rough, Sea. Why did you do that?
I think I'll hide here for a while, it's getting hot on the Beach. LOL
I think I'll hide here for a while, it's getting hot on the Beach. LOL
Yeah, I know - the pups and I might just have to move up there for a few months. That wouldn't be so bad!
Can you just up and leave?
I might be going to see DD in May....I thinking of nice things that will happen in Spring. You know when the weather is nice!!
I've never done it and I'm too spoiled to even try!!!!!!!
Jerry cold compress!!!!!!!!!!!
Ever watch the BBC comedy series "The Good Life?" (PBS retitled it Good Neighbors.) It was about a couple who decided to become self-sufficient but they liked their neighborhood so they raised chickens and a goat and crops in their back garden in the suburbs.
To stay within our budget while buying and building a large home + outbuildings on a 10-acre parcel we bought. We also had to fence in all that property to keep our livestock contained. I got off easy - got to drive the tractor w/the post hole digger while DH had to drop the logs in. We also had to have our own well witched and drilled, our septic system put in, our road backhoed, 8 yards of gravel hauled in and our phone lines run. It was quite an adventure, lol! I felt like packing my bags when the deer stripped my yearling fruit trees to within 6 inches of the ground.
Yes, I could leave if I planned ahead for it. Would need to get a renter for my home to cover the mortgage. The only tough part would be traveling with Pippin. He has to be up in my arms when I drive - wont stay in his seatbelt. Fergie just sits and enjoys the drive.
Maybe the kids will already have a plan. I sent them some links to info they need to get started. I want them to do their own composting with a tumbler composter and to do square-foot gardening instead of acre gardening. At least they wouldn't get overwhelmed in the beginning.
That was a rough life, Sea. It was nice that you had 10 acres, a large home and outbuildings, but wow. You were really quite the farmgirl.
Now you live in the city.
Now you live in the city.
There were times when I considered a pygmy goat in my back yard to keep the weeds down, but I went to Home Depot and got a weed eater instead. I don't poison the earth with weed killers, so it's a little more work, but nothing major. I do cook in large pots and freeze so I dont have to cook every night. Electricity goes out some in the winter mos., so I put less in the freezer those months.
Pippin torments the little possums he finds in the yard at night by poking them with his nose while they're lying on their little backs playing possum. He tires of it after a while, comes in the house, and they get up and scamper away.
The bad thing about some renters is getting them out when you want them out...if you plan on coming back.
BIL did that when he went to England to work for a company for two years.
And now I say good night in here.
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Yeah, I know. I've been thinking of getting a foreign exchange student as a renter. That way, I dont have to keep them forever.
I'm gone. Goodnight Sea and goodnight, Jan. See ya tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year. Whenever I decide to come back to the forum.
I think it is so convenient that you all married men with the same initials. No need to ask what "DH" stands for.
Lucky coincidence.
On House, we got references for 5 years to Cameron's first marriage. He died 6 months after they wed. We learned his best friend was Joe but, in all the times they talked about him, we never learned his name so everyone I know refers to him as "Cameron's PDH" or just "PDH" for "poor, dead husband."
Lucky coincidence.
On House, we got references for 5 years to Cameron's first marriage. He died 6 months after they wed. We learned his best friend was Joe but, in all the times they talked about him, we never learned his name so everyone I know refers to him as "Cameron's PDH" or just "PDH" for "poor, dead husband."
I'm gone. Goodnight Sea and goodnight, Jan. See ya tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year. Whenever I decide to come back to the forum.
Aren't you the one that said, just a few days ago, that is was time to bring this thread back to life?!!
Jerry you is fickle!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, Jan. You, Fudgey and Poe have always posted in here. I invited some people to come back and some others to join us, but Seabrook is the only one who has. Thank you Sea, my friend, I appreciate it.
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