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[MoonShadows]

I can truly say that I'm living my dream everyday.

No one can ask for much more.

 

[MoonShadows]

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YES, you are!

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I'm glad you agree.

My dh, myself and 3 son's plus my disabled brother lived in a trailer for 10yrs until we bought our house..we were cramped (still are really as this is a small house) but we loved our trailer.

I love my crazy unorganized corner of the world. As far as I'm concerned there is no classification for what my family is. We are happy, we are healthy, we are alive that's all that matters. Most days we are clean but some days you can tell we have been playing in the mud. We raise our food to make us happy not to save money or please anyone. I actually started not so much as a hobby I guess but more to see how my ancestors lived. They were small scale farmers, just like me. We don't have a lot but what we do have we (including the 5 kids) have worked for.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I don't see it as a "I'm doing it right your doing it wrong " I see it as "what can you teach me while I am sharing my knowledge with someone else." Its all about us all making life easier for us all one idea at a time.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I think, and you are welcome to correct me if wrong, that all @rancher hicks was saying is if you truely want it you can have the "country life" regardless of where you live. I have met a couple that live in a city yet started a community garden and live a very agriculture focused. And he agreed with you as far as the term trailer trash...that it meant little.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Seems to me where you live shouldn't determine who or what you are. Never liked the term "trailer trash" and all that type of thing. I seen some trailers kept better than some houses. Point being as long as a person behaves themselves shouldn't matter where they live. I've lived in the city proper and in the country and in between. I've evolved as time goes by in my thinking. So I'm here for now. Only God knows what tomorrow will bring. You can be sure the weather man don't. Cuz I'm freezing. I sure hope it's not this cold when we get to Alaska. I think I'll pack some long Johns just in case. Wonder why they're called long JOHNS and not long Bills or Jimmies or some other name, and who was the John they're named after? Did John make them or Johns mother or wife? Was John really long or was it cuz he wore shorts and the underwear were long? Maybe he was Scandinavian and wore Ledderhosen, but then go the LONG underwear? Well I guess I'll just have to wonder. OH, now I remember why I logged on. One of these days my mind is gonna wander and not come back. Here's the rustic fencing, when it was good.

I love the fencing. That's one idea we had for our yard. I think the only treatment for it though is to replace the branches as needed. Even though they are cracking they should still last several seasons. Maybe grow some sort of vine on it for stability?

 

[Raech]

I think they are called Long Johns because it was a "long" work day in the winter, and everyone was named John. Or you can blame the song Big John, which is now stuck in my head along side the country song "watching my corn pop up in rows.." cant think of the title. After planting 7 8'x4' beds for the neighbor I am burned and tired of poking holes. Off to puppy class, night ya'll.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Any ideas on how to make my rustic fence last longer. Lots of damage this year. Due to drying out mostly I think.  I've got lots of repairs to make this year if I'm to keep the chickens I have left out.  

Plant trees and use them as posts. Still need to replace the cross beams, but you cannot get much more rustic. Vines just pulled my fences down.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I think they are called Long Johns because it was a "long" work day in the winter, and everyone was named John. Or you can blame the song Big John, which is now stuck in my head along side the country song "watching my corn pop up in rows.." cant think of the title. After planting 7 8'x4' beds for the neighbor I am burned and tired of poking holes. Off to puppy class, night ya'll.

good song and that's a lot of corn.

 

[rancher hicks]

rancher hicks~ not sure what you mean by your comment?

City living and Country living are entirely different is all I meant by my post.

I'm with you. He lost me . I wasn't implying that city vs country was a good or bad thing. I was just simply stating I prefer country. I'm the same "me" I was 20 years ago living in the middle of Wichita KS with cars every where and neighbors so close I could smell their food cook. Now I just have more space to grow stuff.

As for "classifications " such as trailer trash, I live in an ugly little trailer built in 1980. Its not the house that makes the family it's the family that makes the house. So I guess that means I live a millionaire life on a homeless budget. We have little but love much.

rancher hicks~ not sure what you mean by your comment?

City living and Country living are entirely different is all I meant by my post.

I didn't see anything offensive in either of your posts, just talking and saying who you are. (Guess I will have to read this whole thread now LOL)

rancher hicks, Our weather men never seem to get it right either, and change the forecast throughout the day. When we went to Alaska (which was fun) it was definitely warmer than the time we went to New York ... I was never so cold in my life! Enjoyed the experience though, and got to visit with some long time friends. Also, maybe long johns got their name because of dear john letters? LOL

Hi all!

Sorry I lost you. I know you didn't mean anything offensive and I sure didn't. I'm old and so sometimes I lose the young folks.

When you're old you cross lots of lives and ideas folks have. Heck I'm sure some folks (present company excluded) think this way or that way about a foreign country and it's people but I've been to some and learned folks are all the same. Heck I figure, (from the media) that some folks think Americans hate this country or that but that just is not so. I know from a friend in India that folks there though Oprah Winfrey was an evangelist.

I didn't mean to imply anyone was criticizing anyone else, just saying is all. Lots of folks from all walks of life here on BYC. I heard that trailer trash comment once and it just stuck with me I guess. I reckon Jeff Foxworthy didn't help either.

We had friends who lived in a trailer and I wouldn't have called them trash, so I didn't get the reference.

I kinda think the internet has driven equal number of folks apart as it's brought together. What with misinterpretation of meaning and all. Believe me when I say I never mean anything insulting or offensive. If you should wonder please give me the benefit of the doubt.

Peace,