savingdogs
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LYourLinkGoesHere Well I've been a lurker on the SS, BYC and BYH sites for awhile and have finally decided to put a little more down here about myself. For some reason my pictures never seem to upload so I'll have to try to be descriptive because I'm not computer-savvy enough to know what I'm doing wrong (weird because I've been using computers for some 25 plus years).
Married mom of three, 50 years old, daughter 27 who just produced grandchild number one, and a son turning 18 and another one turning 13 going on 30...he is known in a couple of threads here simply as Trouble. The other two turned out good so God thought he oughta send me a stinker that someone needed to raise, God love him. We also have six dogs, three cats and I'll get into my barnyard in a few.
I'm new to the self-sufficient bug. Hubby has always been about 10 percent "survivalist" and I've always rolled my eyes at him. However a year and a half ago, we lost our nice home in the city (medical bills, too much debt consolidation and then lotsa pay cuts) and "downsized" to a mobile home in the country on five acres. We've always wanted five acres but we were married 26 years before we got them! I do miss my nice city house, but we love living in the forest. Our place is very very remote, forested mountaintop. We do have neighbors but alot of unowned or unpopulated state land surrounds us. We are close to Mt. Saint Helen's (yes, the volcano). We are not expecting any lava here soon in our location though, don't lose any sleep. We have a woodstove lit by wood we chop, our own well, and septic of course. We would LOVE to be off-grid because we hate the electric company here, they want to put power lines across our land and we are pretty PO'd. To be off grid would make it possible to say we don't want to do business with you.
Now we're Californians originally transplanted here to southwest washington state a dozen or so years ago. I always wanted a farm and chickens and horses and dogs and cats. Now that we are here, we are skipping the horses. While I'd love to have one someday, they are an expense I just can't justify at the moment. Whereas my little dairy goats, they barely eat any hay and I have three of them. And hopefully two of them will give me milk. I'm trying soaping and would like to make goats milk soap to sell over the internet and to give as gifts. We love our goaties. They are just adolescents right now.
We also have chickens that we adore and never guessed we would. While we don't have special favorites, we love them as a group and find them very amusing, almost as good as television (sometimes better). Certainly better than television when my husband has the remote. And I probably don't need to tell most of you here about the eggs....
In case you are wondering why I'm "savingdogs", it is because that has been my identification on the internet for some time. I'm a veteran volunteer in the field of dog and cat rescue aka working to foster animals from the humane society or about to go to a humane society. I've worked to promote spaying and neutering and fostered and placed in happy homes 330 dogs now and a little over 50 cats (we lost count on the kittens). We have actually helped many more animals than that through our endeavors, but those are the ones who actually lived in our house until new homes were found. All breeds, everything from chihuahua to great dane to border collie to common mutt to pitt bull to lab and many or mostly blends. I've had a blind poodle, several orthopedic patients, a naked dog, a dog with rage syndrome, a diabetic dog, ultra fearful, ultra confident, you name it, we've had one like it at our house (just about!).
Often, I do not chime in on posts because others are much more informed, but I do have unique experience with dogs and cats in that I have lived with so many and known so many and how to help them find the right situation/solution. So you will often see me posting on topics relating to dogs. Cats are my secondary love, I have and love cats but have only rescued them because I'm a sucker and while I was trying to rescue dogs, people suckered me into helping some poor cat. All three of the cats I own were fosters that never found anyone "good" enough. In the case of two of them, they were just plain mean kittens so they never got picked and the third and oldest one was a nice kitten but my boys found fault with everyone who applied until I finally caved.
We currently have one foster dog and one foster cat.
But in any event, I've come here to communicate and have fun with all you wonderful folk. I've recently lost my hearing and need ways to express myself and "hear" back and get the whole picture. And y'all are so interesting and have so many great ideas on frugal living and being more the way I wanna be!
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Married mom of three, 50 years old, daughter 27 who just produced grandchild number one, and a son turning 18 and another one turning 13 going on 30...he is known in a couple of threads here simply as Trouble. The other two turned out good so God thought he oughta send me a stinker that someone needed to raise, God love him. We also have six dogs, three cats and I'll get into my barnyard in a few.
I'm new to the self-sufficient bug. Hubby has always been about 10 percent "survivalist" and I've always rolled my eyes at him. However a year and a half ago, we lost our nice home in the city (medical bills, too much debt consolidation and then lotsa pay cuts) and "downsized" to a mobile home in the country on five acres. We've always wanted five acres but we were married 26 years before we got them! I do miss my nice city house, but we love living in the forest. Our place is very very remote, forested mountaintop. We do have neighbors but alot of unowned or unpopulated state land surrounds us. We are close to Mt. Saint Helen's (yes, the volcano). We are not expecting any lava here soon in our location though, don't lose any sleep. We have a woodstove lit by wood we chop, our own well, and septic of course. We would LOVE to be off-grid because we hate the electric company here, they want to put power lines across our land and we are pretty PO'd. To be off grid would make it possible to say we don't want to do business with you.
Now we're Californians originally transplanted here to southwest washington state a dozen or so years ago. I always wanted a farm and chickens and horses and dogs and cats. Now that we are here, we are skipping the horses. While I'd love to have one someday, they are an expense I just can't justify at the moment. Whereas my little dairy goats, they barely eat any hay and I have three of them. And hopefully two of them will give me milk. I'm trying soaping and would like to make goats milk soap to sell over the internet and to give as gifts. We love our goaties. They are just adolescents right now.
We also have chickens that we adore and never guessed we would. While we don't have special favorites, we love them as a group and find them very amusing, almost as good as television (sometimes better). Certainly better than television when my husband has the remote. And I probably don't need to tell most of you here about the eggs....
In case you are wondering why I'm "savingdogs", it is because that has been my identification on the internet for some time. I'm a veteran volunteer in the field of dog and cat rescue aka working to foster animals from the humane society or about to go to a humane society. I've worked to promote spaying and neutering and fostered and placed in happy homes 330 dogs now and a little over 50 cats (we lost count on the kittens). We have actually helped many more animals than that through our endeavors, but those are the ones who actually lived in our house until new homes were found. All breeds, everything from chihuahua to great dane to border collie to common mutt to pitt bull to lab and many or mostly blends. I've had a blind poodle, several orthopedic patients, a naked dog, a dog with rage syndrome, a diabetic dog, ultra fearful, ultra confident, you name it, we've had one like it at our house (just about!).
Often, I do not chime in on posts because others are much more informed, but I do have unique experience with dogs and cats in that I have lived with so many and known so many and how to help them find the right situation/solution. So you will often see me posting on topics relating to dogs. Cats are my secondary love, I have and love cats but have only rescued them because I'm a sucker and while I was trying to rescue dogs, people suckered me into helping some poor cat. All three of the cats I own were fosters that never found anyone "good" enough. In the case of two of them, they were just plain mean kittens so they never got picked and the third and oldest one was a nice kitten but my boys found fault with everyone who applied until I finally caved.
We currently have one foster dog and one foster cat.
But in any event, I've come here to communicate and have fun with all you wonderful folk. I've recently lost my hearing and need ways to express myself and "hear" back and get the whole picture. And y'all are so interesting and have so many great ideas on frugal living and being more the way I wanna be!
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Hi there savingdogs! 
