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My mom grew up on a farm and left as soon as she finished high school. I grew up in the suburbs. My happiest moments (aside from those at riding lessons) were spent during my yearly summer vacations at my grandparents' farm in Michigan. My Grandpa was retired and his land was leased out but I defied all the rules and crawled around in the rotting barn, climbed to the top of the silo (definitely forbidden!) and got lost in cornfields during thunderstorms (my Grandma hosed me off in the yard after I did that). It amuses my mother that she moved away from the farm but I was so driven to be on a farm that I ended up buying one!
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It is funny how people that grow up in the country want to get out and those who are from the city can't wait to buy something in the country. :D There are those who are true city people and those who are country people no matter where they live. We moved to that corn field when I was six and I have lived in the country ever since. Always wanted a horse of my own so that is just a plus to being in the country. As long as I can help it I intend on staying in the country. :bounce
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I know. They're going to have to drag me kicking and screaming from this house if I ever need to be in a nursing home! There's an idea, actually... it would be great in a properly zoned area to put a nursing home where it would be surrounded by fields and livestock. I bet a lot of elderly farmers and other country people would be much happier there than where most nursing homes are. My Grandma had to spend her last months in a nursing home and I cried every time I thought of her leaving the house and farm she had lived on since her early twenties. My Grandpa built the house.
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I'm torn between wanting my own farm and living in the city. Unfortunately to have both means a minimum of $1.2 million :o
I've watched too many scary movies to be entirely out on my own. Plus take out would get cold by the time you got it home! :laugh1
Someday... After winning the lottery...
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[quote="Sara"]I know. They're going to have to drag me kicking and screaming from this house if I ever need to be in a nursing home! There's an idea, actually... it would be great in a properly zoned area to put a nursing home where it would be surrounded by fields and livestock. I bet a lot of elderly farmers and other country people would be much happier there than where most nursing homes are. My Grandma had to spend her last months in a nursing home and I cried every time I thought of her leaving the house and farm she had lived on since her early twenties. My Grandpa built the house.[/quote]
That is actually a great idea!!! I know if I ever had to go to a home that I would love one that still made me feel like I was on the farm. Hey, they could even do therapeutic riding instead of physical therapy. :lol:
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[quote="Sara"]I love where I am because I'm only 40 minutes from the largest city in Oregon. We've got museums, a symphony, any kind of food you could ever want, and great libraries and bookstores, but in my little area it's just farms and nurseries as far as I can see.[/quote]
That sounds wonderful!!! Me, I am 50 minutes from where we do our shopping which is at Walmart Supercenter. :o Although we are only two hours from St. Louis. Ideally though I would like to be a little closer to civilization. It is gorgeous here but a bit lonely at times.
ETA: I put up some pictures of where we live on this thread yesterday,
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Sara....NO, the number one sign is NO sign at all, no bag, no fanny and a nonchalant swing of the hips as she wanders innocently off to hide behind a bush, give two quick heaves and erupt from the other side shrieking "Eek, come away, child, it is a MARTIAN and they eat foals, do not go near the evil thing"
Or, at least, that is what Princess does given half a chance.
And Song.
Pagan has perfected the "innocence" and the "nonchalance" but is quite happy to give me the foal in exchange for a feed, a toffee or even an interesting piece of string.
Ecco and Fizz just have them at least a month early....which is interesting, and Blue has gone up to nine weeks early and had a non premature foal....which is also interesting, if you like that sort of thing!!!
I don't know what Widget does as she is a maiden....which is [i]always [/i]
interesting!!!!!
Your countryside is simialar to mine, I have a few hills but just ten mles away the country goes flatish....Anglia (my region) is the Holland of England...if that makes sense.....it's past me bedtime!!!! :lol:
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You've made me laugh again which is welcome at the moment. My muscles ache, I can't get warm, and my body gently sways back and forth if I try to stand still so either it's foaling season or I have swine flu.
*scampers off to offer Isabelle an interesting piece of string*
edited to add that Portland is not the Holland of the US but I did happen to take a shot that makes it look pretty flat. I'm actually in a valley surrounded by hills and on a clear day from my road I can see Mt Hood
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Mt St Helens
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and one other that may be Mt Adams (I'm not positive on this one).
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[quote="Sara"]I love where I am because I'm only 40 minutes from the largest city in Oregon. We've got museums, a symphony, any kind of food you could ever want, and great libraries and bookstores, but in my little area it's just farms and nurseries as far as I can see.[/quote]
That's one of the things I love about our place--farm is a tad over 30 miles from the third largest city in the country. Close enough to get all the "culture" I want, far enough to not hear all the city noise.
Diane
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:shock: With a sky like that, I assure you I would be grabbing the broom to go beat some cobwebs out of the tornado shelter. :laugh1
[size=75](which distorts my appreciation for it) [/size] Dramatic though. Wow!