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Nardo

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Hi,
My wife and I have an acre in Carrollton, Texas. She's from Dallas; I'm from New Orleans. We've got 3 grown kids, 7 grand-kids and 1 great-grandson.
We have four dogs, 3 indoor cats, 1 barn cat, and x number of chickens, depending. LOL.
We garden (flowers and veggies), make our own whatever, recycle, re-use and scrimp along.
I read anything and she is the social director. ;)
We have 66 acres in Hill Country and I am counting down the days until retirement. But work is on the horizon for another ten years, maybe.
Anyway, glad to be here and to learn some new stuff.
 

baymule

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Hi Neighbor! We are on 8 acres in the Tyler area. We are retired, have 3 horses, 11 Sheep, 3 dogs, 2 feeder pigs, Muscovy ducks, and a bunch of chickens.

Welcome to the forum, this is a great bunch of folks.
 

Farmer Connie

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Howdy from WI! I'm interested in your making/recycling/upcycling/skrimping activities. Please share!
 

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Hello and welcome. We are 70 miles north of you. Kinda new to this stuff but the site has been alot of help.
 

Nardo

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Howdy from WI! I'm interested in your making/recycling/upcycling/skrimping activities. Please share!
Where to start? I just about re-use anything until it has no life left in it. I built a greenhouse/chicken coop almost entirely from recycled goods. I'm not sure how to link here to another site: but maybe this will work: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/very-low-cost-but-tons-of-work-recycled-coop.67706/

I think that many of the names here I also see on BYC.

I am known for curb surfing; I built my workshop and organized my garage from things that others had cast away. I make steampunk lamps in my spare time, and the parts for these are mostly scrap iron, steel, metal from other uses. We have a church pew for a sitting bench in the living room that came free from a closed down church. My patio is encircled with wrought iron fencing that I scored when a metal shop closed down. I built my wife a hat/scarf hanger from the keys from her Grandma's old piano. The rest of the piano became a bar. I could go on and on.
 

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I would LOVE to see some of your projects and things you built from recycled materials! That hat/scarf hanger sounds interesting… and the lamps.
 

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