Who are you most thankful for on SS?

[savingdogs]

I haven't been on long enough to really get to know all of you, but I feel at home here. I spend more time on this forum than on any other that I belong to. Everyone on has has been extremely helpful and supportive. And, this is the only forum (w/the exception of a support group that I joined and very rarely post on) where someone else has MD. That means a lot to me.

What I'm most thankful about w/this forum.

1. I'm thankful for the younger people on here like Barredbuff and Blackbird. It's nice to see young people who are interested in this type of lifestyle.

2. Ok, not quite sure how to post this one since I don't want to offend those who don't share my beliefs. It's nice for me to see so many on here that share beliefs similar to mine. So often I feel out of place since I'm so different from those that I attend church with. Even in churches where there were more farm families, I still felt out of place. They were just interested in what they grew/raised, and not in this type of skill in general.

3. I'm thankful for the different experiences that people have shared, including mistakes! It gives me hope.

I know this is me, and it made me happy to have MD for just a moment there.....thanks. Having you here has meant a lot to me too. You are my kind of people Deb. Everyone else can call us the dizzy broads and we can just brush it off cuz we can't hear them anyway.

 

[Denim Deb]

I haven't been on long enough to really get to know all of you, but I feel at home here. I spend more time on this forum than on any other that I belong to. Everyone on has has been extremely helpful and supportive. And, this is the only forum (w/the exception of a support group that I joined and very rarely post on) where someone else has MD. That means a lot to me.

What I'm most thankful about w/this forum.

1. I'm thankful for the younger people on here like Barredbuff and Blackbird. It's nice to see young people who are interested in this type of lifestyle.

2. Ok, not quite sure how to post this one since I don't want to offend those who don't share my beliefs. It's nice for me to see so many on here that share beliefs similar to mine. So often I feel out of place since I'm so different from those that I attend church with. Even in churches where there were more farm families, I still felt out of place. They were just interested in what they grew/raised, and not in this type of skill in general.

3. I'm thankful for the different experiences that people have shared, including mistakes! It gives me hope.

I know this is me, and it made me happy to have MD for just a moment there.....thanks. Having you here has meant a lot to me too. You are my kind of people Deb. Everyone else can call us the dizzy broads and we can just brush it off cuz we can't hear them anyway.

 

[hoosier]

There is no way I could choose just one of you!

I miss roosmum, too.

 

[abifae]

They think I am crazy to grow and process my own chickens and garden....say they can get their food from the store with far less effort.

*giggles*

RIGHT! Because this lifestyle is all about ease of effort. *nod nod*

>.>

 

[tortoise]

They think I am crazy to grow and process my own chickens and garden....say they can get their food from the store with far less effort.

*giggles*

Put my fiance in that group. :sigh:

 

[freemotion]

Be patient....my dh is coming along quite nicely. He may never actually participate in any processing, but he now actually looks forward to new projects....which is a HUGE change of attitude. And he is helping feed and care for the meat critters, which I would be ok with doing it all myself if he wasn't able to eat critters he got to know...but he is ok with it now.

It took about 4-5 years, I think, from my first suggesting we get meat birds to this new attitude. It took about 2 years from my first suggestion to actually have our first meat birds....two turkeys (because "turkeys are ugly!)

When I let a hen go broody for the first time, I told him that we could not keep all the roosters and that my dad would be killing them....and did he want me to allow the hen to set? Yes, he said, but HE would not eat the chickens. Well, by the time they were obnoxious roosters, tearing up his beloved laying flock's backs, he ate them with us.

Now we have our first actual meat birds bought on purpose for meat and the two pigs.

Give him time and let him think he has a small say in the matters. But also let him know you expect his support in your interests and project, even if he does not want to participate...he can keep his negative comments to himself, because it hurts your feelings.

That works.

 

[tortoise]

Be patient....my dh is coming along quite nicely. He may never actually participate in any processing, but he now actually looks forward to new projects....which is a HUGE change of attitude. And he is helping feed and care for the meat critters, which I would be ok with doing it all myself if he wasn't able to eat critters he got to know...but he is ok with it now.

It took about 4-5 years, I think, from my first suggesting we get meat birds to this new attitude. It took about 2 years from my first suggestion to actually have our first meat birds....two turkeys (because "turkeys are ugly!)

When I let a hen go broody for the first time, I told him that we could not keep all the roosters and that my dad would be killing them....and did he want me to allow the hen to set? Yes, he said, but HE would not eat the chickens. Well, by the time they were obnoxious roosters, tearing up his beloved laying flock's backs, he ate them with us.

Now we have our first actual meat birds bought on purpose for meat and the two pigs.

Give him time and let him think he has a small say in the matters. But also let him know you expect his support in your interests and project, even if he does not want to participate...he can keep his negative comments to himself, because it hurts your feelings.

That works.

I got to hear it from him yesterday about my lard/tallow rendering project. He tried to do something nice for me by washing dishes. And some of those dishes were by the sink.

So he proceeds to wash them as if they are regular dishes. And then bitches about fat clogging the pipes.

OMG. Does he REALLY think I'm stupid?!

I wipe off the fat while it is warm and soft (rheat it if necessary). And anything else get a bath in ammonia, then with detergent and a hot water rinse. By the time I get to rinsing out the ammonia/detergent dish, the fat is so emulsified that it won't clog. And I still run HOT HOT water down for a few minutes afterwards because I'm paranoid like that.

I hate how he thinks I'm stupid.

.... now back to your regular programming ....

 

[freemotion]

I have to label stuff in the kitchen with sticky notes. Sometimes with dire warnings. "Don't touch or else!!!"

 

[FarmerDenise]

My SO is coming round slowly but surely. Then he falls back bit
The other day he chopped up all the assorted sticks from our fruit tree trimmings, that I had carefully prepared over the past few years to use to make my brooms and to make garden fences and hopefully furniture
He claimed it was so we could be warm, for the fireplace. DD lives about 4 blocks from us, she has oakwood cut up and stacked and wants it gone. It is enough to last us all winter, but noooo, HE has to cut up my sticks

He tried to make up for it, by making me breakfast and vacuum sealing the frozen food stuff that was on my to-do list.

At least he loves the goats

 

[Up-the-Creek]

So often I feel out of place since I'm so different from those that I attend church with.

Same here, DD. No one in my church is doing this type of lifestyle and they seem to feel that intelligent people don't set themselves up for that much work. Especially the ladies....they would never turn their hand to manual labor of any kind~that is man's work.

They think I am crazy to grow and process my own chickens and garden....say they can get their food from the store with far less effort.

Finding people that is into this kind of lifestyle, even in the most rural areas, is not an easy task( Am I right Bee???). They think either there is something wrong with getting dirty and actually doing manuel labor or they just assume you are dirt poor and dumb and don't know no better. When we got our pigs,..you should have seen some of the reactions,...