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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:40:23 -0800 (PST)

Lynn, you or James or no-one else of the independent spirit type list-members
have said anything about how the desire for freedom and free-will,
individualism and honor and all of those idealistic things you are
accomplishing rubs off on or otherwise affects those arounf you; kin,
children, neighbors. That may be too personal a quetion. In my life, I just
stay quiet. Most of my acquaintances think I'm eccentric just because of the
guns....................bobford


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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 10:28 AM
> I'd have to wait until the kids are grown. I'm not
> set up to have visitors,
> let alone someone staying here long-term. We already fight
> over the
> bathroom, with 3 of us here. Also, I'm not very
> sociable, and like my
> privacy...the thought of a bunch of city types tromping
> through my garden
> annoys me. Anti-social curmudgeon, and getting worse all
> the time.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:59 AM
> Subject: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse
>
>
> >
> > On Nov 17, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> >
> >> There's a lot to be said for younger men.
> Where I live has a surplus
> >> of
> >> women, particularly in my age group. My having a
> farm might be
> >> attractive to
> >> some younger men, but I have no intention of ever
> marrying or
> >> otherwise
> >> letting anyone get their hands on ownership of it.
> Maybe I need to
> >> settle
> >> for just a ranch-hand...do some work around here
> in return for room
> >> and
> >> board.
> >
> > Lots of women, with and without spouses, have
> supplemented home labor
> > forces with extra help. Some get it for room and
> board. Some do
> > schools. Carla Emery did something called the School
> for Country
> > Living or something like that. Many people get what
> might be called
> > slave labor by doing workshops, which means
> "letting" outsiders learn
> > by doing. There are many young urbanites who want to
> learn organic
> > gardening and animal husbandry and other rural skills.
> Find a
> > connection.
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