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Roll Call - Where are you? continued

15 years ago

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Anyone else care to check in with their location?

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bobbie56
15 years ago
I will, I live in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
maryanntx
15 years ago
I've already posted, but I noticed that sooey ask on the first thread about the KT map. I had forgotten about it. Here is a link to it, KT map
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This is a fun thread! Thanks for starting it miss kitty. It's great to see what everybody else is doing on their places. I've been lurking for months, unable to log on and put in my own 2 cents worth. Very frustrating. Recently got a new internet security program and - voila - here I am! My hubby and I have 16 acres in central Texas. We have a live creek with a swimming hole, lots of 100-150 year old oak trees, and plenty of field as well as old rock wall areas we leave overgrown for the wildlife. My mom lives with us in a m-i-l apartment. We have 4 dogs, 3 cats and 11 chickens, so far. We moved into the barn and started builing the house here 3 years ago, having already owned the property for 6 years prior. (For six looong years we journeyed out from the city every single week-end and vacation to clear land, build the barn, dig the well, bring in electricity, etc.) It was all worth it once we got installed here permanently! I raise a big organic garden and can, dry and freeze so much stuff that we're starting feel pretty self-sufficient veggie-wise. The produce aisle at the grocery doesn't see much of me any more. And the home-canned soups, salsas, pasta sauces, etc. are SO much tastier! We got our 10 Rhode Island Red hens and one surprise bonus Silver Spangled Hamburg roo last spring. On a friend's advice I ordered more chicks than I needed because some would "inevitably not make it to maturity." Guess what? I didn't lose a single bird and now have a surplus of eggs! I get 9 or 10 a day, every day. We like to do everything ourselves and use materials we have at hand, so we built a stone henhouse under the pole barn, with a large covered run and optional garden access. Neighbors immediately dubbed it Hen Hilton and declared that if a tornado comes they'll evict our chickens and move into it themselves. (Us city-transplants provide plenty of wholesome amusement for our wonderfully helpful neighbors!) We planned on getting a heifer and producing offspring for the freezer, but gave up on that idea when we found ourselves unable to even slay the mean rooster! We have neighbors who raise their beefers naturally, so we'll just buy one from them to send to the butcher after we purchase a third freezer. No way I could raise a baby, then eat it. My meat has gotta be more anonymous, I guess. We would like to put some mini donkeys out in the pasture, but fear our large, city-raised dogs would run them to death (or get kicked in the head). Guess maybe we'll wait until the old pack is gradually replaced by a country-born-and-bred bunch. None of our current pals are terribly young! No rush. We are lucky to have a wonderful old pecan tree that some long-past resident of this place lovingly grafted and tended. Every other year it gives us more huge nuts than our entire extended family can use in 2 years. This winter I planted some apple trees, an apricot, and a blackberry patch. Two of the many fig trees I planted 5 years ago are finally looking like maybe they'll make something of themselves this year. And my vet gave me 3 pommegranet (sp?) cuttings that I have high hopes for if they're still alive come spring. His trees are awesome, but it can be difficult to nurse the cuttings thru the winter in pots. We also have mustang grapes growing wild - despite our best efforts to control their progress! Basically, I plant anything I can get for free and see if I can get it to thrive. Some experiments have worked better than others and it's all a learning experience. At least I have fun. I'm fortunate to be able to stay home and tend "the farm," look after my mom, etc. My work here contributes enough to the support of the household that my salary paled in comparison. DH hopes to retire in a few more years and become a full-time country dude. As it is he just works himself to death evenings and week-ends. He is finally easing up on his concerns about the klutzy wife maiming herself and teaching me how to operate the tractors, so I can take some of the burden off him. We would love to keep bees, but worry about the killer bee infiltration in Texas. Anybody have any words of wisdom on that subject? pam
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I live in South Arlington. I'd be happy to get connected with people in the area. I'm 28 and I'm a computer technician and supervisor at Staples and my fiancee works at Lockheed Martin. We've been here about a year and I'm a bit of a social butterfly without any friend flowers, lol. Feel free to send me emails via my profile.
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Well, I'll chime in, I guess. I'm Jennifer in Va...as my name states. I've resorted to lurking for a bit. There's a lot going on that keeps me busy. I'm 7 months pregnant now, and still busy schooling my 2 kids! I only get in my sewing room about once a week, rather than the once a day it used to be....just too tired to do more! Mostly I've been piddling. Collecting batik charms for a class at our guild's quilt-in in March, collecting red-white-green fqs for the Mystery quilt. I did make up a purse out of yellow/blue charms for donation to the raffles. My most active project is probably my English Paper Piecing one out of 30s prints that will be a baby quilt (Thanks Teresa!) I have the bulk of the blocks done and will start putting those together soon... byrdseay~Maybe we'll run into each other next weekend at Mid-Atlantic! I'll be there Friday & Saturday, trying to get into classes both days. (Guess I'll have to get organized for that as well!) Oh, and yesterday DH said I could get an embroidery machine for my 40th b-day tomorrow!! Now I just need to figure out if we can afford one!!..and which one! Oy vay
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debo_2006
15 years ago
I see there are quite a few people in my general area.

I'm in West Chester, PA
sooey
15 years ago
Thanks for posting the map, Maryann. Like you, I had forgotten about it. It looks like we have grown a lot since that one was put together.

Hummm...tapping foot...Rita had a good idea a few posts back on the original thread...tapping foot...push pins, where could we find enough push pins...and, a map big enough...hummm... Any ideas??? Lets think about this...
naughtykitty
15 years ago
Mission Viejo, CA (So Cal)
pranjal
15 years ago
Abu Dhabi, UAE.

:( No KTers near me
waddles
15 years ago
Just outside the Quad Cities on the Iowa side.
calirose
15 years ago
Hi, new to forum, but not to THS and GW. Have been reading some of your posts and thought I would answer this one.
I am West Tennessee about 70 miles north of Memphis. BTW, much further north and I would be in Kentucky!!

Rhonda
finnie
15 years ago
Hi all,
Central NJ here.
bigack
15 years ago
I'm in northern WV, about 90 miles S. of Pittsburgh pa.
Maggie4
15 years ago
Iowa here. More storms southern part of the state and Nebraska were hit last night. We only had 5+ in rain. It can stop anytime.
anneliese_32
15 years ago
I post once in a blue moon, but I am just south of Louisville, KY.
Rudebekia
15 years ago
St. Paul, MN. It is still chilly here!
luckygardnr
15 years ago
Just north of Toronto, Ontario, in the village of Hillsburgh.
Pieonear
15 years ago
Southern Illinois, about 90 minutes east of St. Louis, MO.
frostedc
15 years ago
Marion Indiana
liz
15 years ago
Pran...soon...one of these days very soon...I'm gonna have you meet me in Dubai for lunch and shopping!!

Thanks for posting the map MaryAnn...I didn't know about it and promptly added my hubster and I's fat widdle faces!!
sharon_fl
15 years ago
I'm 5 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico in Largo, FL. It was 93Âº here this afternoon!
lilliepad
15 years ago
Big Spring,TX.Midway between El Paso and Dallas on Interstate 20.
sharon-It was 101 here today and is suppose to be 102 tomorrow,103 Sunday and in the hundreds all next week.I think Summer has finally arrived!LOL
gillian_41
15 years ago
Foley,AL.7 miles north of Gulf Shores,and yes summer has arrived here in the 90s along with the humidity.
lindalou
15 years ago
Originally, from Hanover, PA. Moved here seven years ago to Delaware, near the little town of Ocean View, three miles west of Bethany Beach and about ten miles north of Ocean City, MD.
pranjal
15 years ago
Liz!!!!!! When?????? Tell me tell me tell me!!! Would love to meet up with you!!

Pran **doin the happy dance**
jamielovescoffee__az
15 years ago
I'm in Phoenix, but originally from Texas. Hello to all you East Texas gals--if ever you have a KT get together I'm coming! I have so many friends and family all over the area. I went to school in Nacogdoches.
mooner
15 years ago
hi, we are from London, Ontario, Canada
catlady15
15 years ago
Alabama here and south of Birmingham between Birmingham, and Montgomery Alabama.Where we have cotton fields and some out houses still standing.LOL.I think everone has indoor bathrooms because the Health depts requires everone too but there is still some still standing with the 1/2 moon on the doors.We grow blueberries and daylilies.We have several lime plants and cement plants.That is where my husband works for a lime plant rocking throwing distance from our home.Also my husband owns a Lawn care business,.He has had it for about 10 years now.We sell-give away wood in the winter months.That is a little about my life here.
amy5
15 years ago
Central MS
donnakt_gw
15 years ago
Donna in Ohio..
mynerves
15 years ago
hi there,i,m carol here in ne pa. wilkes-barre--scranton area
tami_ohio
15 years ago
I'm in north central Ohio, between Cleveland and Sandusky, where Cedar Point amusment park is.

Tami
mad_about_mickey
15 years ago
In NC originally from Nazareth, PA.
kim_okla
15 years ago
Oklahoma City here.
FlamingO in AR
15 years ago
Northwest ArKINGsaw, Eureka Springs to be exact.

Pranjal- if you get to meet Liz, get a hug from me to you from her, if that made any sense! She's a traveling girl, our Liz!
suebdoo
15 years ago
New to this forum and loving the posts!

I'm from Thunder Bay, Ontario CANADA eh!

Sue
sheilajoyce_gw
15 years ago
coastal Southern California
Marcia Thornley
15 years ago
I'm in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Very near Niagara Falls and about an hour from Toronto. In the Fruit and Wine Belt. It's Strawberry season now!
samkaren
15 years ago
Samkaren...now in beautiful...Mount Carroll Illinois
susan_on
15 years ago
Same as Mush...near Niagara Falls.
flowerpotmama
15 years ago
On a farm in South Central Saskatchewan! I'm always late to these things, LOL.

Danielle
lisa_fla
15 years ago
Orlando and I'm on the map although I don't remember it!
hidesertfox
15 years ago
East of the beautiful Sierra Nevadas in the high desert of SoCal - still loving it after 30 years here! :-)

cj
molly109
15 years ago
Central PA - for now.
bulldinkie
15 years ago
South Central Pennsylvania.
kframe19
15 years ago
Right outside of Washington, DC in Fairfax, Virginia.

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