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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Finding that Homesteading Partner
  • Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:59:25 -0800 (PST)

In that situation my question to you would have been
"what can I do to get aquainted enough that you would
consider going out with me?"
Would that have made any difference? If so what
wouild be your response?
Van Dell

--- Wendy Gulliver <crazygardens AT verizon.net> wrote:

> I am fortunate that I am not so traumatized that I
> cannot look at men
> without getting "the creeps". I know some women
> are. In fact, I enjoy
> looking at men. <G> However, I also enjoy looking
> at lions. I feel similar
> about both. I don't like to be alone an a room with
> them without their
> "handler". Even then, I have learned not to turn my
> back on them. They
> make me feel like prey. In the right setting, they
> are fine, but I don't
> think it is always wise to keep one around the house
> especially if you live
> alone. I have to know one very well before I feel
> comfortable letting one
> in my "personal space". Enough about lions. I
> think it would be nice to
> someday find a man I could call my "soul mate" and
> be able to live a happy
> life together. I don't think I ever will. I know
> this is by my own design.
> A guy who would not take a polite "Thanks, but no
> thanks" for an answer
> asked me out. I explained I don't date guys I don't
> know. He asked how am
> I to get to know anyone if I won't date. Oh,
> dilemma. In the meantime,
> I'm not lonely, just too small to do some of the
> work that needs to be done
> around here. lol
>
> Wendy
>
>
>
>
> >
> >> . . . the thought of having a few "sisters"
> around appeals to
> >> me. After all there is safety in numbers. I
> hadn't thought about
> >> this until this thread came up, but I don't think
> the notion of
> >> homestead of a few ladies and a shared man sounds
> so wacky at all.
> >
> > Not so wacky at all, indeed. There are two such
> enclaves north of me,
> > in the general area of Ava, Missouri. I have been
> to Hawk Hill Farm,
> > where perhaps a half dozen women live in several
> houses. No men.
> > There is a larger enclave west, I think, of Ava,
> but I have not been
> > there. It was started by a woman for abused women.
> Men are not
> > welcome at all because some of the women are
> traumatized by the mere
> > sight.
>
>
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