The theme for this week’s Farmgirl Blog-a-Thon — Farmgirl Heart…What Being A Farmgirl Means to You — is perfect because I’ve been thinking a bunch about what it means to be a Farmgirl, or an aspiring Farmgirl.
Garden Goose, who’s running this a-thon, suggested posting a photo of us Farmgirls, our collections or our farms. I chose one of our family’s farm in winter. It’s a beautiful sight.
I’ll mull over a bit what being a Farmgirl means to me. First I’ll ask you all, what is it about me that you think makes me a Farmgirl? Or…not?
Virtual Farmgirl 
Your voice changes when you speak with reverence of “The Farm”.Your love of the idea of “The Farm” comes through as you share a story or two of your days as a “youth” on “The Farm”.”The Farm” gives you a chance to immerse yourself in the raw, quiet tranquility of nature.Not everyone allows themselves to be soothed in such a way.You like to surround yourself and those that you love with the finest things in life whether they are found in the hustle/bustle of the city or the tranquility of “The Farm”.Only a true farmgirl could live out daily such a complex simplicity.
LikeLike
love the photo of the house tucked behind the trees.thanks for participating in week 2.
LikeLike
Found you through gardengoose Farmgirl contest. I’ll be checking back regularly. I appreciate your post on your Hoosier. I bought one a couple of years ago and it’s Tiger Oak under the white paint. I can’t decide whether to restore it or not but I’m anxious to get it out of the garage and into the kitchen. I find it interesting that you now own your family farm. My Mom owns ours now but my brothers and I manage it for her. 3 of them live on the farm and I own an acre in case I should ever want to build there. Have a nice week.Judy
LikeLike
Grand Life, I’m no antiques expert, but I’d say…do whatever you can to get that Hoosier out of the garage and back into a kitchen where it belongs.
LikeLike
Possession is 9/10 of the law. So speaking even in the most legal sense, you are a farmgirl by virtue of your ownership and the inheritance of farm property on both sides. But, I like 4h champ, feel that it goes much deeper for you than mere ownership. It is a relationship between you and God’s creation. His role as Creator and Sustainer of your life and the farm land you own. Your preservation of what is “farm” in your life is admirable. And thus you are more than “virtual” farmgirl.
LikeLike
VFG, sometimes I think of you like an extraordinary character in a Willa Cather novel. In some ways only bound for the opportunities that an urban world can provide a modern woman. Yet deep down in some ways always a bit lost amongst the skyscrapers. Ultimately, you will always be the little girl with her hair let down, running barefoot through the mountains of New Mexico or hunting arrowheads in her grandparents Hoosier cornfields after a fresh rain. When you close your eyes, you can always be there, and often are.As my dad once said, “I live for the time we sit along the crick & eat candy bars & gaze into the eyes of 1000 stars.”
LikeLike
Your voice changes when you speak with reverence of “The Farm”.Your love of the idea of “The Farm” comes through as you share a story or two of your days as a “youth” on “The Farm”.”The Farm” gives you a chance to immerse yourself in the raw, quiet tranquility of nature.Not everyone allows themselves to be soothed in such a way.You like to surround yourself and those that you love with the finest things in life whether they are found in the hustle/bustle of the city or the tranquility of “The Farm”.Only a true farmgirl could live out daily such a complex simplicity.
LikeLike
love the photo of the house tucked behind the trees.thanks for participating in week 2.
LikeLike
Found you through gardengoose Farmgirl contest. I’ll be checking back regularly. I appreciate your post on your Hoosier. I bought one a couple of years ago and it’s Tiger Oak under the white paint. I can’t decide whether to restore it or not but I’m anxious to get it out of the garage and into the kitchen. I find it interesting that you now own your family farm. My Mom owns ours now but my brothers and I manage it for her. 3 of them live on the farm and I own an acre in case I should ever want to build there. Have a nice week.Judy
LikeLike
Grand Life, I’m no antiques expert, but I’d say…do whatever you can to get that Hoosier out of the garage and back into a kitchen where it belongs.
LikeLike
Possession is 9/10 of the law. So speaking even in the most legal sense, you are a farmgirl by virtue of your ownership and the inheritance of farm property on both sides. But, I like 4h champ, feel that it goes much deeper for you than mere ownership. It is a relationship between you and God’s creation. His role as Creator and Sustainer of your life and the farm land you own. Your preservation of what is “farm” in your life is admirable. And thus you are more than “virtual” farmgirl.
LikeLike
VFG, sometimes I think of you like an extraordinary character in a Willa Cather novel. In some ways only bound for the opportunities that an urban world can provide a modern woman. Yet deep down in some ways always a bit lost amongst the skyscrapers. Ultimately, you will always be the little girl with her hair let down, running barefoot through the mountains of New Mexico or hunting arrowheads in her grandparents Hoosier cornfields after a fresh rain. When you close your eyes, you can always be there, and often are.As my dad once said, “I live for the time we sit along the crick & eat candy bars & gaze into the eyes of 1000 stars.”
LikeLike