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Skriven 2014-10-03 20:33:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: farmers   was: OJ
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-02-14  17:04 <=-

 RH>> Right now she's too busy with work to even think of adding anything
 RH>> like a garden. Maybe next year, if the work load settles down a bit.
 RH>> By then Logan will be able to "help" more, Jaxon will try to "help"
 RH>> as well.
 NB>> Well, that's a totally different issue...  ;)  Yeah, gives the boys a
 NB>> little more time to grow up to be helpers...  :)

 RH> Let them "grub around" a bit in the back yard (mostly dirt anyway) so
 RH> they get the idea of working in dirt. (G)

That works... planting something and putting it on the windowsill might
be useful as well, to get the idea of growing things...  ;)
 
 NB>>> And hopefully it wouldn't turn him off pork again...   (G)
 RH>> That was a different incident, about 20 years later.
 NB>> Yes, I know... it was the driving past the noxious farms...  But
 NB>> hopefully the butchering wouldn't bring back that later trauma...  ;)

 RH> It shouldn't, there wouldn't be as many hogs nor any hog watering
 RH> pens to overflow.

I'd hope not.   :)

 RH>> Didn't help but glad it was that summer, not the next one when I was
 RH>> putting up fruits and veggies from May to November, sewing a suit for
 RH>> Steve, entertaining a lot of company, running after 2 girls, etc, etc.
 NB>> Yup, that would have been worse timing...  :)

 RH> It wasn't a fun time but I made it thru. I had to pace myself a bit
 RH> more the next year but the girls were just a bit older/able to do for
 RH> themselves just that bit more. They were too young to help with
 RH> canning tho, so I had to work that in and around activities for them.
 RH> Sometimes I look back and wonder how I got done all I did but I had no
 RH> choice so just did it.

One does what one must... and somehow the means and strength are
given...  :)

ttyl        neb

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