Quote:
I love that I have neighbors with farm animals. I chuckle when the goat belonging to my nearest neighbor starts "talking" or I hear a more distant neighbor's horses neighing and playing with their bells. Another neighbor's roosters crow like crazy, sometimes triggering mine to crow back, and another neighbor's ducks quack happily around dusk. I will take the sounds of the country over the sounds of the city any day, and I wasn't even raised in the country. I spent so much of my life in the rat race, and now I spend my time making healthy soil, growing healthy chickens and produce, and actually enjoying life instead of flying through it at breakneck speed. I've found my little patch of peace in a chaotic world, and I've no intention of surrendering it to those who simply prove incapable of appreciating the beauty of true freedom.
I SECOND THAT , i was born in NYC and progressed to living in CT on a 350 acre farm in a town with 1000 people, on my farm i raised Arabians & thoroughbred horses of Secretariat racing blood lines then i built my own home at the top of the largest water falls in new England were i raised my 5 kids in a 2000 acre Forrest, in the house i built with my own 2 hands and we all lived there very happy along with all our animals ,horses, dogs , cats, bunnies geese, goats, chickens, a cow pigs & my parrot BURT plus any other animals that came along & needed a good home , i split wood all winter & cooked & heated the house with my 100 year old french wood kitchen stove, dang i wish i had my kitchen wood stove back i loved cooking on it ...! then my health began to decline and i had to sell it all and move to a warmer climate , at first i tried to live in FL for 5 years ,but to many chemical , bugs & humanity for me & HA then i became allergic to FL, so i decided to travel all over the country and look for the place that felt like home , so we went any were i wanted to go, i home schooled my youngest child , all my kids are very bright and are all well off & actually richer then me...lol.. thank goodness for that, so we traveled every place we ever wanted to see, thats how we ended up in Bisbee AZ , but for most of my life i was a total country person , a farmer from NYC but never a hick ...lol... so we found that Bisbee was a really nice little town with nice people, who get along well , so we decided to stay , and i paid cash for the place we have now & then got a larger place just down the road thats paid infull to..! i dont like banks..!!!! so i would never have a mortgage ..! id rather pay cash , that way you really own your home...! i have a lot of people tell me they love my chickens & my neighbor told me she loves hearing my roos...lol.... go figure that ....lol.. ??? HA so i found the best place for me , its not completely out on a lot of land & remote like what i thought in wanted , but its just a hop skip & a jump from the main town at one mile hi in the mountains , out in the county , so no complaints here and i love hearing the donkey up the street..!! braying HA he reminds me of my farm , my parrot BURT he is 42 years old now & loves talking to his new chickens on his new farm ...lol..
He almost looked like he was smiling yesterday 
