Baymule’s Farm
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ninnymary
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Bay, you live life on the edge! Would be too stressful for me.
Mary
Mary
Dahlia
Garden Addicted
My grandmother had this painting hanging in her house! God rest her soul.
digitS'
Garden Master
A friend brought that as a gift several years ago.
We sit at the kitchen table often and have tea/coffee. Our home was built over a century ago and, while small, it has high ceilings. Above the paneling in the kitchen, a previous owner had a local artist paint an outdoor scene, trees, mountains, lakes, horses, an elk.
The friend thought that picture was a good fit. I hung it where he easily sees it from his usual position at the table. (He also brought us a cookie jar, once
.)Steve
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baymule
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How special is that! Painted scenery up on the kitchen walls! I like it!
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baymule
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I think that’s funny. I guess my stress level is so low, that it would take a major Catastrophe to stress me out. Have never lost a home in a fire. Being faced with that possibility, I calmly accepted it and made preparations to get me and my animals out of here alive. Now maybe if I came back and found everything burned up, I probably would have been upset, but I don’t think that would have lasted long. The land would still be here, I’d just start over.
Knowing me, I’d build a barn first.
flowerbug
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... The land would still be here, I’d just start over.
Knowing me, I’d build a barn first.
makes perfect sense to me. barn means shade while everything else gets sorted out. i guess quickie tent or umbrella might be faster...
ninnymary
Garden Master
You could live temporarily in the barn till you got some other type of housing.I think that’s funny. I guess my stress level is so low, that it would take a major Catastrophe to stress me out. Have never lost a home in a fire. Being faced with that possibility, I calmly accepted it and made preparations to get me and my animals out of here alive. Now maybe if I came back and found everything burned up, I probably would have been upset, but I don’t think that would have lasted long. The land would still be here, I’d just start over.
Knowing me, I’d build a barn first.
Mary
digitS'
Garden Master
My venture into the-untamed-wilderness when I was in my 20's: first I moved a cast iron stove out there & slept under a fir tree.
Next, I built a woodshed with a cellar under one side & moved in there with the stove out front. (My brother brought me a half dozen hens when he learned that part of the shed was enclosed to serve as a henhouse ... Not my intention to live with the chickens but, oh well!)
Next, I built the barn, moved the stove in and lived for 2 years in the loft. Carpeted, with carpet even on the lower part of the walls - I had extra
. By this time, there was a big garden fenced and going great guns.
During the time in the barn the logs were cut and seasoning for the log cabin. Additionally, I had a foundation and basement to dig ... with a shovel. Basement poured, logs stacked, windows & doors cut, roof on top - I moved in ... with a "new stove" and a "antique cookstove!" Amongst the firewood was a screened box which seved as my refrigerator & freezer thru the Winters. Always the emphasis was, "What Will I Eat?" Along with having a comfortable place to sleep. Oh yeah, I built "the little house out behind the shack" along in there some place. Had to hang the necessity paper up high because, I didn't bother putting a door on it and I wasn't really into bothering with the Sears & Montgomery Wards catalogs out there.
Steve
Next, I built a woodshed with a cellar under one side & moved in there with the stove out front. (My brother brought me a half dozen hens when he learned that part of the shed was enclosed to serve as a henhouse ... Not my intention to live with the chickens but, oh well!)
Next, I built the barn, moved the stove in and lived for 2 years in the loft. Carpeted, with carpet even on the lower part of the walls - I had extra
. By this time, there was a big garden fenced and going great guns.During the time in the barn the logs were cut and seasoning for the log cabin. Additionally, I had a foundation and basement to dig ... with a shovel. Basement poured, logs stacked, windows & doors cut, roof on top - I moved in ... with a "new stove" and a "antique cookstove!" Amongst the firewood was a screened box which seved as my refrigerator & freezer thru the Winters. Always the emphasis was, "What Will I Eat?" Along with having a comfortable place to sleep. Oh yeah, I built "the little house out behind the shack" along in there some place. Had to hang the necessity paper up high because, I didn't bother putting a door on it and I wasn't really into bothering with the Sears & Montgomery Wards catalogs out there.
Steve
SPedigrees
Garden Addicted
You're made of tougher stuff than me, and are obviously more self-sufficient.
