My own 10 questions for you

[HappyHomestead]

I really enjoyed reading the answers to the questionnaire, but it left me wanting more. So, in no particular order, I have my own questions for y'all

1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency?
2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are?
3) What is the climate like where you live?
4) Have you ever had a pedicure?
5 Do you prefer cake or pie?
6) What book (if any) made you cry?
7) What city would you love to see someday?
8) What are you most excited about growing?
9) Do you believe in God?
10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living?

 

[Wifezilla]

1. Since I was a kid
2. Totally nuts
3. Dry
4. No
5. Both
6. The Rescue
7. Any city in Hawaii
8. Pumpkins
9. No
10. Be flexible, be creative, and keep your sense of humor.

 

[freemotion]

I like your list better!
1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency?
As long as I can remember, as my family was rather self sufficient. Even as a child, I got excited when everything on the dinner table was made, grown, or foraged by us.

2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are?
See above!
3) What is the climate like where you live?
New England....four seasons, sometimes a hard winter. Winters are necessary for maple syrup, though!

4) Have you ever had a pedicure?
Once, when traveling with a friend. Never again. I didn't like it at all. I do paint my toenails myself in the summer, as I work barefoot at my office and when teaching (massage therapy.) It is easier to have painted nails than to remember to scrub them after being barefoot in the garden...

5 Do you prefer cake or pie?
Pie, usually, but I like coffee cake and pound cake that isn't too sweet.

6) What book (if any) made you cry?
First that comes to mind is Tuesdays with Morrie, but many others have. I've read thousands of books so it is hard to remember.

7) What city would you love to see someday?
None, I hate being in any city. Can't go barefoot.

8) What are you most excited about growing?
Shoot, everything that grows excites me. Most excited? Right at this moment? Probably the baby goats.

9) Do you believe in God?
Absolutely.

10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living?
The profound satisfaction that comes with producing my own food, having plenty stored, and not contributing (as much) to the cruelty of the food system or the destruction of this beautiful planet.

 

[JRmom]

I'll play along...

1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency?
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to marry a farmer. That didn't happen, so I just bumble along with my SS efforts, mainly veggie gardening, preserving, cooking and baking. I really started researching and doing about 3 years ago or so when I started working from home.


2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are?
Hubby is VERY supportive, but I think most everyone else thinks I am a bits nuts (although everyone wants stuff from the garden).

3) What is the climate like where you live?
Zone 9, north central Florida - right now very very dry

4) Have you ever had a pedicure?
Yes

5 Do you prefer cake or pie?
No preference as long as chocolate is involved!

6) What book (if any) made you cry?
Marley and Me, among many others.

7) What city would you love to see someday?
Any city in Italy

8) What are you most excited about growing?
Tomatoes - only because we eat so many of them

9) Do you believe in God?
Yes

10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living?
Cooking from whole foods from scratch is LESS EXPENSIVE than cooking processed crap.

 

[calendula]

1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency?

I've really been focusing on it for a few years, I'm somewhat a newbie at this. But gardening and making food from scratch are things my grandma always did and I loved to help her.

2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are?

Mostly, we're all little crazy, but people are always interested in what we have going on at our place.

3) What is the climate like where you live?

Wisconsin is a continental climate, which means we freeze our butts off in winter, but we have nice summers, though it gets pretty humid and sticky.

4) Have you ever had a pedicure?

No.

5 Do you prefer cake or pie?

Cake

6) What book (if any) made you cry?

The Clan of the Cavebear, when Ayla leaves her son behind.

7) What city would you love to see someday?

I always thought it would be neat to go to South America, maybe Buenos Aires, Argentina

8) What are you most excited about growing?

This year, I would have to say loofahs

9) Do you believe in God?

No

10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living?

Do what you feel is best for your family, no matter what other people try to convince you to do.

 

[HappyHomestead]

Kewl, good morning, and thanks for playing along

 

[HappyHomestead]

Guess I could answer my own questions.

1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency? Since I was 17
2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are? They're crazy in their own way
3) What is the climate like where you live? Right now, mediocre
4) Have you ever had a pedicure? No, I despise having my feet touched!
5 Do you prefer cake or pie? Cake, every time
6) What book (if any) made you cry? The Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Anne of Green Gables when Matthew died
7) What city would you love to see someday? Any city in Italy
8) What are you most excited about growing? Soapwort - I want to make my own shampoo - and our chicks - love my chickens!
9) Do you believe in God? Yes
10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living? I've learned it doesn't take much in the way of possessions to be happy, and animals are way better than tv any day

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

yay! great list!


1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency?
About 5 years

2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are?
nuts and think i should get a real job so we arent so poor that we have to eat a turkey from our yard (that still slays me)

3) What is the climate like where you live?
hot hot hot a few nice days cold cold cold

4) Have you ever had a pedicure?
used to get them all the time

5 Do you prefer cake or pie?
oh pahleeeze... pie!

6) What book (if any) made you cry?
there's no crying here

7) What city would you love to see someday?
just outside of medford, or -- or real city? i'm pretty partial to Rome

8) What are you most excited about growing?
pigz so's i can kill them and make bacon

9) Do you believe in God?
yep

10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living?
how to make laundry soap. and oh yeah.. that i can do all this stuff and i'm not dependent on big companies to do it for me.

 

[abifae]

What fun! Abi's fave topic... ABI!!!

1) How long have you been interested in self suffiency? Since I was little, but never had a chance to do much (other than cook from scratch) until recently.

2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are? Just in general or for being SS? Yes to both. LOL. Actually, my step dad says I have more integrity than anyone he knows because I put my money behind my politics.

3) What is the climate like where you live? Dry. The "soil" is actually clay. With rocks in it. We import dirt. I know a LOT of people who don't garden, but who compost and give it to friends who do.

4) Have you ever had a pedicure? Nope.

5 Do you prefer cake or pie? Depends on my mood.

6) What book (if any) made you cry? Tons. Most recently, the Black Jewels series. (Anne Bishop)

7) What city would you love to see someday? Kyoto. I want to go on an obscure temple adventure in Japan.

8) What are you most excited about growing? My garden last year was such an epic fail (I got a couple dozen tomatoes out of two plants because my patio has too little sun), that I have not bothered this year.

9) Do you believe in God? Nope. But I don't not believe in god, only because you cannot prove a negative. I believe in consequences and nature.

10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living? There's more satisfaction in using things I've made than bought.

 

[moolie]

1) How long have you been interested in self sufficiency? All my life, when I was 9 I wanted to live in a cabin in the woods and make pottery.

2) Does your family think you're nuts or are they as crazy as you are? We're all crazy, fact of life we all embrace.

3) What is the climate like where you live? Cold winters, short hot summers, not much shoulder season. Dry--very arid, not much rain/snow year-round. Alkaline clay soil. Prairie winds, year-round, which means warm Chinook winds every couple of weeks during winter to melt any snow accumulation.

4) Have you ever had a pedicure? No.

5 Do you prefer cake or pie? Pie.

6) What book (if any) made you cry? Charlotte's Web was one of the early ones, I cry over all kinds of things.

7) What city would you love to see someday? Ljubljana, Slovenia

8) What are you most excited about growing? Tomatoes, every year I love seeing those tiny seeds I started back in March or April turn into the most yummy smelling plants and produce that beautiful red and yellow fruit.

9) Do you believe in God? Of course.

10) What's the best thing you've learned in your adventure of simpler living? There is much joy and satisfaction in doing my best for my family and my world.