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Monday, October 06, 2008 | By RuralAngel

gray jeans are cool

like creeps and perverts preying on the niave. He has too many vulgar male friends influencing him.

Why would he dislike the pic? I think it's very nice.

what a cute name for mosquitoes. I live in a farm community with rice fields. They should make mosquitoes our state bird!
I'll be sure and give it a try.

vguy(yard spiders)
Earle, AR

Never heard it called that before! You will probably find it a fun game to cut down and save. It doesn't have to be "doing without" as you saw with the Halloween stuff but rather a rethinking ways to get what you want without going in hock. I don't know how much cooking, etc. you do but I get giddy (ok, it doesn't take much...) when I go to the grocery store and buy a pork loin for $1.99 per pound when it's usually $3.99 and I make enough packages for 16 meals from an $18.00 piece of meat. I get a kick out of drying some clothes outside and saving the 1 hour dryer timefor free. Anyway, good luck on your attempt to compact (what a cool word!) your life.
Judi

Oh how excited you are! What a joyful time for you! We moved almost 2 years ago from a busy road (in the country but busy) to a place way, way out and not busy at all. It has its pluses and minuses.

We have to drive 30 miles to the nearest large store as opposed to the 12 miles before. It's a challenge to do the shopping in one trip with HIM wanting to go several places and ME needing to go others and HIM not being patient with MY places!! ;-) We keep a list all week and try to go only once a week. In our town we have what my son calls "Blue Hair Tuesday" and severa stores give discounts for seniors. I take my husband cause HE's the SENIOR...not me! :-p You just have to keep a good list of things you're out of and likely to run out of during the next week and if you miss it, you just do without. Gas is too expensive to make trips for only a couple of things.

Where we live the snow gets pretty deep inthe winter and we have to plan for extanded times of staying home. We don't have television cause HE's too cheap (but I love him anyway!) so we read and I sew and we talk..yes, we actually talk and we've been married 23 years!!

We recycle and I keep 4 covered garbage cans outside my back door. We take them into the recycle center about once a month when we do our weekly shopping.

I have a couple of freezers and I can a lot. We can't have a garden here because it's too cold. We had frost 3 nights in JULY!! I just try to buy on sale and we keep a beef in the freezer. You have enough land to raise a calf.

Lucky you to have some nut trees! We have planted a very small orchard with several kinds of fruit but they won't produce much for several years.

We have a heat sink fireplace but in our previous home (where wish I lived now...) we had a wood furnace in our basement and loved it. We used downed trees from our property and it heated the house nicely. We cut wood here and have a good supply put up for the winter.

I wouldn't want to have a "store" of any kind if I were you. People are nuts now and with you so far away from other people I would be afraid you'd be setting yourself up for robbery. Besides, getting away from people is why you're moving.

Thin k about planting catmint! I love it and it blooms from spring until now out here and would probably bloom longer where you are. It looks a bit like lavender and spreads into a nice large round clump in just 1 season. Deer don't touch it either. We also love lilac and it's easy to get a start and fairly tough.

You sound like you've got great plans. I like to get myself to sleep planning what I'm going to do at our house. I lay in bed and plan all sorts of things! If money were not constantly a hinderance in every part of life I could have such fun!!

My husband and I have 160 acres here so ther is plenty to keep him busy outside and me both in and out. We're rather old fashioned so I do all the inside stuff. He just wants hot meals and clean beds and clothes. He tends the cows and builds the fences and works the fields. I have a profile on here so you can see us if you're interested.

Have fun with your new place and send in some pictures when you get it up and running. You'll really enjoy that basement!

they are leaving that little fridg & I have 2 & 1/2 more - one for the basement & my newest 1 goes in that corner you see on the left so i can hook up my water tap & icemaker.The dorm size one will go in the craft shop (also unpictured for now)
How did we live without all this gadgetry ? omg (remember filling all the ice cube trays all the time - whew!

It is a rather small kitchen but i love it - i will get more pics asap - these were sent by the relator- so you don't see the kitchen sink in the corner with the window or the vintage style wallpaper under the cabinets & over the counter.

Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree but I ordered tile for the bathrooms: 1" greens for the master bath & reds for Brads (his favorite color) & Big Lots sold some red/gold very nice prepasted wallpaper I will use (only $2 a roll) & i have rugs & accents & toowels & even have a shelf I painted reds & gold when I did my tv room here that will be perfect for towels & things...
funny the bathrooms & bedrooms also are not pictured but as I said I will get to that asap !

I also ordered mirrored tiles - as you can see the East end of the house has only one small window which is in the master bathroom.I have a big walk in closet too which I plan on using a chest of drawers here in Brads room --

I am waiting to get my "designer wall vinals" soon to thru amazon to take the "plain jane" style out & in with a little perking up!!

Most of the wall vinals are removeable/reusable & I am waiting for a cple cherry blossom trees & other leafy/branchy vinals

I also bought a bigger steamer/cleaner that is said to hold enough for about an hours worth of cleaning time instead of the kind I now have which cleans about 5 minutes - then has to cool off & be refilled & reheated!
A LOT of trouble for a little clean lol

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If I did not do things like this my family would not eat 1/2 as good as they (don't know) they do! Good job!
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