Colowyo - grudgingly settling in :P

colowyo0809

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Farmfresh said:
My dad was always very practical. He still would be if his brain worked right. :p

He was one of 10 children born to a "truck" farmer (we would call him a market gardener these days). If you weren't sustainable and practical ... you didn't eat.
really, not a bad way of doing things :) i think there would be less people around if more families had to feed themselves this way :)

BTW, not sure if I did this yet or not. Thank you for the Osage Oranges. I've had them outside since I got them :) they have been through several snows, melts, freezes already :D whoo hoo! hopin for the best!
 

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Ugly looking "brain fruits" aren't they!

Do a search for Osage Orange. They make bowls, furniture and some of the best hunting bows out of them. In addition to fence posts.
 

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Sorry to hear about your step Dad. Hugs for all of you. :hugs

Sounds like your little homestead is coming right along. Are yo planning a garden for spring?

I hear you on the decluttering. I attempted to clean and sort some stuff out of my dh closet last weekend. That man is a clothes horse. It was very hard for him. :p

Have a great day.

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TanksHill said:
Sorry to hear about your step Dad. Hugs for all of you. :hugs

Sounds like your little homestead is coming right along. Are yo planning a garden for spring?

I hear you on the decluttering. I attempted to clean and sort some stuff out of my dh closet last weekend. That man is a clothes horse. It was very hard for him. :p

Have a great day.

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Thanks :)

yeah, its starting to shape up a bit. We definitly are planning a garden. I had to go through and pare a $300 seed catalog order down to under $100 :) I think I managed to pare it down to varieties that will do decently in our soil/weather :) especially if I help them along with the use of containers and such :D
 

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I know how that seed thing goes. First I said I was only planting things I had, then I was only ordering things I didn't have, now I have about 25 new packets of seeds and need more space to plant them. :barnie

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