City Girl Longing for a Homestead...

I loved being on the farm at Aunt Lillian & Uncle Wayne Brown's...

I envy you folks with lots of land.  I'm land-locked in a city and I think I'm really a homesteading girl at heart.  I had relatives who were farmers and we went there often while I was growing up.  I even learned to make a true pig grunt--they used to run up and down the fence line after me when I'd do that!  Too much fun--my kids think it's hilarious to listen to me do "the grunt" now.  Side show stuff, you know.  My Aunt Lillian raised all kinds of vegetables we were able to eat; she always had fresh eggs too.  Loved getting the double yolks--if you got a double-yolk egg, you were the lucky one.  Her husband, my Uncle Wayne, grew sweet corn in addition to raising the hogs.  Durocs.  I remember when it was time to harvest the sweet corn, I'd get my own ear and sit down right there and eat it raw.  So sweet and good--never had trouble with eating it raw, either, in spite of Mom's worries.  We also had freshly butchered pork from those Durocs--I haven't had pork as good as that since.   Then my dad's uncle died when a fuel tank he and his son were repairing rolled off the stand onto him and crushed him.  A few years later, their son, Bud, had a brain aneurysm and died.  I'll never forget walking into the hospital with my dad, seeing Bud's otherwise healthy body lying on the bed a while before they pulled the life support.  We lost touch over the years after that--I don't know why, really.  I don't even know if the farm is still in my father's cousin Wendy's hands.  But I have many other memories of time spent on that farm.  I think I'll record them here.  Maybe I'll realize my wish for more land sometime, too.

Until next time...Amy

Welcome!

{ 11:49, Sunday, May 11, 2008 } { Posted by HSBFrontPorch }

Welcome to HSB! I hope you enjoy your blogging time here... I am sure you will come to enjoy the community we have. If I can be of any help to you, please don't hesitate to ask!
Have a great week!!!

From my homestead to yours,
~Chas
Chasity L. Burrell
Senior Editor Homesteadblogger.com
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/chas

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{ 09:27, Monday, May 12, 2008 } { Posted by stitchnchick }

Thanks for sharing those sweet memories! It sounds so much like my own childhood with my grandparents. :-)


Stop by for a visit anytime!
Amy

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{ 06:20, Monday, May 12, 2008 } { Posted by j706nancyr }

Welcome to hsb. I loved reading about your memories on the farm. I hope you can live your homesteading dreams vicariously through the blogs! LOL
Nancy

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{ 02:37, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 } { Posted by beingmolded }

What lovely heartfelt memories!