Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[farmerjan]

I’m a member of that shoulda been born in the past, club. I didn’t have many friends at school, the girls were silly, popular garbage and I’d rather go ride my horse.

@Baymule ..... Exactly... I hated all the silliness, and my horse was the most important thing except working to pay for her... I made most of my clothes and that is when we still had to wear dresses/skirts... no pants in school until I was in last year or 2, of high school... then I worked after school and had to wear a dress/skirt.... so didn't bother with all the changing... then I came home from work, and changed, rode for whatever time I had and baby sat several nights a week for more horse/animal money...
I dated a little, but mostly was a "buddy/friend" kind of date to guys that liked to tinker with cars or a couple that had a horse....I had chickens from about 12-13yrs old.... for 4-H..... bought my own horse at 15.... met my ex, got into show chickens alot... and they used some of my available money... to buy better show chickens and all. My whole family got into showing the chickens too...everyone had their own breed ..... so it was a family hobby for several years.
The one thing that I would have missed if I had been able to go back in time... would have been the electricity......refrigerator/freezers and hot showers/ indoor running water........

Oh well...

 

[Mini Horses]

Duh....I guess I was born back in that time. . Yep, outhouses, hot bath in a metal tub by the wood stove. No electric. Rope & bucket for well water... Only thing that got us out of that was my dad being Navy and we were eventually relocated with him, not just seeing him between his deployments.

Those nice conveniences were around, just not back in the hills

It was a life and now, a learning experience. If the SHTF happens, many would more than panic. While it's an inconvenience, I do know how to maintain. I'd buy a horse for myself again.

 

[Baymule]

I was raised in Houston from 3rd grade . I hated it and left for East Texas with a detour through Baytown as soon as I was grown up. I had grandparents with 40 acres outside a small town and I loved to roam the woods. My grandpa taught me a lot. I bought a horse when I was twelve, much to my mother’s horror and had to board her. I wasn’t made to live in a city.

 

[murphysranch]

In high school, I read science fiction. A LOT!! Thought I was born toooooo early. Then later in life, I realized that I was afraid of flying so I then decided I was born too late. I coulda been a real homesteader...

 

[fuzzi]

I don't understand what is going on with the nieces and nephews. I have two sisters, smart, hard-working, raised their kids right. My eldest sister & husband moved from Oregon to MN when they retired, had an understanding with their eldest daughter, who was having children. They babysat a lot, helped with house repairs, family stuff. SIL decides to find a job and move 3 hours away, and they don't say anything to parents until a couple weeks before. The granddaughters are very unhappy, too.

My middle sister has three children. Her health has been bad for years, basically is now housebound, living with her dh who has dementia. Children all move out of state. When first grandson is born they make no effort to bring him for a visit. All three have abandoned their parents, act as if they don't exist.

I think they're a bunch of self-centered, rotten poor-excuses for human beings.

 

[fuzzi]

@Baymule ..... Exactly... I hated all the silliness, and my horse was the most important thing except working to pay for her... I made most of my clothes and that is when we still had to wear dresses/skirts... no pants in school until I was in last year or 2, of high school... then I worked after school and had to wear a dress/skirt.... so didn't bother with all the changing... then I came home from work, and changed, rode for whatever time I had and baby sat several nights a week for more horse/animal money...
I dated a little, but mostly was a "buddy/friend" kind of date to guys that liked to tinker with cars or a couple that had a horse....I had chickens from about 12-13yrs old.... for 4-H..... bought my own horse at 15.... met my ex, got into show chickens alot... and they used some of my available money... to buy better show chickens and all. My whole family got into showing the chickens too...everyone had their own breed ..... so it was a family hobby for several years.
The one thing that I would have missed if I had been able to go back in time... would have been the electricity......refrigerator/freezers and hot showers/ indoor running water........

Oh well...

My best friends growing up were my books and my pets. I didn't fit in with the other girls, make-up and boyfriend talk bored me to tears.

I sense a pattern here on BYH...

 

[Baymule]

We were just a bunch of misfits, but we all fit in here.

I have found my people!

 

[Finnie]

I think that’s why I like it here better than BYC.