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Wow! This thread really resurrects my faith in peoples' kindness...........
OFG, that is just such a phenomenal blessing!
OFG, that is just such a phenomenal blessing!
Get out there and make friends! ** FALL UPDATE
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big brown horse
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Hey, I would love to get 15 free bales of straw!! Great score!
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i KNOW!!!
i'm so excited about it! with all the bad news i just had to share some happiness
and i'm totally singing songs of praise these days... wow i mean wow! and on top of all that we are totally hitting the jackpot with all our friends who let us glean in their fields! we are hauling corn in like crazy - 'boat sinking, net breaking' amounts
yay!!!
i've been wracking my brain trying to come up with something that i can do for our friend. we'll come up with something
i'm so excited about it! with all the bad news i just had to share some happiness
and i'm totally singing songs of praise these days... wow i mean wow! and on top of all that we are totally hitting the jackpot with all our friends who let us glean in their fields! we are hauling corn in like crazy - 'boat sinking, net breaking' amounts
yay!!!
i've been wracking my brain trying to come up with something that i can do for our friend. we'll come up with something
miss_thenorth
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I wouldlike to post about the goodness of others also. A while back, before hunting season, hubby went around to some of the local area farmers, seeking permission to hunt on their land. We have been here two yars, and finally this year, he got permission from four different people. Tha's one blessing.
One man, a retired century farmer (his family had been farming the land for about 200 years.) He gave hubby permission, took him to the bush and showed him around, and they got to talking. When the old farmer found out we processed our own meat, he said--"well I got an old chicken plucker that you can have. blessing two. So, with two dozen eggs and a venison roast in hand, we went out to pick up the plucker, we sat and talked a while, and while talking about different things farm related, we had mentioned that we need to find a manure spreader to do our fields. The next week (which would have been last saturday, he came over , and said he found someone who would do it for us and if there was anything else we needed, if he didn't have it, he would know of someone who would.
We talked some more, and I mentioned that we were getting a dairy animal. He said,"well, I got an old milking machine you can have. In fact why don't you come over and take a look around the barn and see if there is anything you need-you can have it. The wife has been wanting me to clean up the barn for ages. If you can use any of the stuff, your welcome to it. Blessing three.
We went over the following day, me and the kids, with a frozen chicken and a dozen eggs in hand and went to look in the barn. We got 8 fence posts, some rectangular frames that I plan on using for raised beds, the milking machine, 8 glass milk jars with a carrying case, a croquet set for the kids, a chess set, an old cabbge slicer, and few other odds and ends, then he sent the kids over tot he apple tree where they picked three grocery bags full of apples, (which I turned into applesauce. He said come back and get more if you want, and then told me where to go to quince fruit. I haven't tried it before , but hea ays it makes wonderful jam and jelly. So, I will be going to pick some of that, and can some up for him and his wife, as well as some applesauce. How many blessings is that--I lost count. Oh yeah, he had his bush logged a while ago, and they left the tree tops. He said we could go in and harvest the wood if we needed it. He also has mature maples in his bush, that I can use to tap the trees for maple syrup, and if there is anything else we could use in the bush (treading lightly of course).
Generous people do exist in this world, and Hubby and I were fortunate to meet one. I am so grateful to him, and thankful to have met him. He and his wife will have free eggs as long as they will eat them, as well as some of my quail and chickens(I'd give rabbit too, but he's not fond of it). Also if I harvest anything off of his land, ( as in syrup etc) they will surely get some of that too.
Oh, and the milking machine--it's a surge bucket milker. It needs a few parts replaced, but wow! He would not accept any money for any of the stuff.
Oh yeah, and he has an old shed that was used as a chicken coop--he said if we don't want it, he's just going to bulldoze it into the burn pile.
Amazing!!
One man, a retired century farmer (his family had been farming the land for about 200 years.) He gave hubby permission, took him to the bush and showed him around, and they got to talking. When the old farmer found out we processed our own meat, he said--"well I got an old chicken plucker that you can have. blessing two. So, with two dozen eggs and a venison roast in hand, we went out to pick up the plucker, we sat and talked a while, and while talking about different things farm related, we had mentioned that we need to find a manure spreader to do our fields. The next week (which would have been last saturday, he came over , and said he found someone who would do it for us and if there was anything else we needed, if he didn't have it, he would know of someone who would.
We talked some more, and I mentioned that we were getting a dairy animal. He said,"well, I got an old milking machine you can have. In fact why don't you come over and take a look around the barn and see if there is anything you need-you can have it. The wife has been wanting me to clean up the barn for ages. If you can use any of the stuff, your welcome to it. Blessing three.
We went over the following day, me and the kids, with a frozen chicken and a dozen eggs in hand and went to look in the barn. We got 8 fence posts, some rectangular frames that I plan on using for raised beds, the milking machine, 8 glass milk jars with a carrying case, a croquet set for the kids, a chess set, an old cabbge slicer, and few other odds and ends, then he sent the kids over tot he apple tree where they picked three grocery bags full of apples, (which I turned into applesauce. He said come back and get more if you want, and then told me where to go to quince fruit. I haven't tried it before , but hea ays it makes wonderful jam and jelly. So, I will be going to pick some of that, and can some up for him and his wife, as well as some applesauce. How many blessings is that--I lost count. Oh yeah, he had his bush logged a while ago, and they left the tree tops. He said we could go in and harvest the wood if we needed it. He also has mature maples in his bush, that I can use to tap the trees for maple syrup, and if there is anything else we could use in the bush (treading lightly of course).
Generous people do exist in this world, and Hubby and I were fortunate to meet one. I am so grateful to him, and thankful to have met him. He and his wife will have free eggs as long as they will eat them, as well as some of my quail and chickens(I'd give rabbit too, but he's not fond of it). Also if I harvest anything off of his land, ( as in syrup etc) they will surely get some of that too.
Oh, and the milking machine--it's a surge bucket milker. It needs a few parts replaced, but wow! He would not accept any money for any of the stuff.
Oh yeah, and he has an old shed that was used as a chicken coop--he said if we don't want it, he's just going to bulldoze it into the burn pile.
Amazing!!
Dace
Revolution in Progress
What great stories on this thread! Country farming type folk sure are different than people in the city. I think farmers have all been thru hard times and are eager to help out the next guy and I think that they have always leaned on each other when ever someone was in need they rallied together. Not true of city folk.
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absolutely!!
one of the things i was completely amazed about was that farmers are so eager to help each other! its completely different than corporate jobs where the attitude is "nobody helped me and i'm not going to help you"
miss_thenorth - what a great story!! wonderful blessings all around!
one of the things i was completely amazed about was that farmers are so eager to help each other! its completely different than corporate jobs where the attitude is "nobody helped me and i'm not going to help you"
miss_thenorth - what a great story!! wonderful blessings all around!
big brown horse
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Miss_thenorth, WOW!!! 
As my Texas Sunday school teacher would tell us, "That's good living right there!" I think she meant that what goes around comes around when you do something good. Boy oh boy, not only would I love to be your neighbor, I would love to be his neighbor too.
As my Texas Sunday school teacher would tell us, "That's good living right there!" I think she meant that what goes around comes around when you do something good. Boy oh boy, not only would I love to be your neighbor, I would love to be his neighbor too.
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true true true!! and i love that the old timers are so willing to pass on the info... all very important.
so the new update is that we went to pick a "few" apples
HA!!!
there were so many we had to go to walmart and get two huge garbage cans to put them in!!!! we now have over 100 gallons of apples!!! wow!!!
we were doing the happy apple dance for sure. some will be for the winter feed but wow there were so many that i'm going to be making applesauce for days.
what could be better than a winter full of pumpkins and apples!! add in all the pork sausage and that is IT, baby!!!
and we figured out that we could donate a flock of geese in our friends name thru Heifer, Intl
Farmfresh
City Biddy
That is a GREAT gift idea! Heifer International is a really well run organization and one an old farmer should approve of. 
freemotion
Food Guru
OFG, you can make some of that applesauce without sugar, just apples and cinnamon, and add stevia when you serve it. It makes a wonderful sauce for French toast!
