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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1763810" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>[USER=28532]@BFE[/USER] ...... Thank you very much for the compliment. Sometimes I am too "literal" and sometimes I "don't get it" , but we (my son and I), work hard and I try to help others and both learn from others experience and my own "school of hard knocks life".. If I can help someone along the way... so they don't try to reinvent the wheel but can learn from my screw up... I feel like I have done a good thing. We did not inherit or have any family that we got land or anything from. In fact, most think I am nuts to have wanted to have a farm/dairy... except my grandmother years ago that said I was a "Throwback to Granny".... there is some farming in my background... but I just always felt like I was out of place in a semi-rural but non-farming area... I was raised to be proud of being a new england Yankee with the very conservative, practical upbringing... but when they went to the insanity of "faster lifestyles, higher taxes, and farms were only for the "bucolic pictures"... I got out and came south to a lifestyle of slower and more gracious. I am very simple in alot of ways... and appreciate that I have been blessed to have some of what I craved from a kid... a farming homesteader type of life.</p><p>You comment/compliment means alot to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1763810, member: 25884"] [USER=28532]@BFE[/USER] ...... Thank you very much for the compliment. Sometimes I am too "literal" and sometimes I "don't get it" , but we (my son and I), work hard and I try to help others and both learn from others experience and my own "school of hard knocks life".. If I can help someone along the way... so they don't try to reinvent the wheel but can learn from my screw up... I feel like I have done a good thing. We did not inherit or have any family that we got land or anything from. In fact, most think I am nuts to have wanted to have a farm/dairy... except my grandmother years ago that said I was a "Throwback to Granny".... there is some farming in my background... but I just always felt like I was out of place in a semi-rural but non-farming area... I was raised to be proud of being a new england Yankee with the very conservative, practical upbringing... but when they went to the insanity of "faster lifestyles, higher taxes, and farms were only for the "bucolic pictures"... I got out and came south to a lifestyle of slower and more gracious. I am very simple in alot of ways... and appreciate that I have been blessed to have some of what I craved from a kid... a farming homesteader type of life. You comment/compliment means alot to me. [/QUOTE]
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