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[william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com>]

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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:

From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
To: wce1482 AT yahoo.com
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 11:18 AM

--- On Mon, 12/8/08, william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com> wrote:


> I think you maybe missing the point.  To get the economy


> However, I have been thinking that I have participated in
> the group for awhile and maybe I should tell something about
> mayself.  I am 65 and am married for the second time.  I
> have 60 acres, of which 35 is woods.  Before I got the
> farm, I was a psychologist.  I served in the Vietnam War
> and am a totally service connected disables veteran.  I
> grew up on a farm and have run a dairy, raised cattle, hogs.
> sheep, goats, chickens, geese, ducks and rabbits.  I have
> often had a big garden and have raised corn, sweet corn ,
> pop corn, soybeen, navy beans, wheat and hay.  I am now
> raising an orchard.  I have about a 1000 trees.  The deer
> help themselves to the trees on a regular bases.  I read
> somewhere that deer will not jump a fence if something is 6
> foot on the other side of the fence.  So I am starting to
> build 2 fences around the orchard 6 feet apart.  I raise
> sweet and sour cherries, grapes, blackberries, plums,
> apricots, peaches, nectarines,
>  pears and apples.  Oh I forgot.  I live in Iowa. 
> Anything else you want to know, just ask.
> 

William, where in Iowa?




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You are kind;  Hopefully your part of MO is hospitable to an attractive dog 
and not so attractive humans.  I will keep this kindness in mind, and I 
always pay my way.


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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld  -- feel free to ignore
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 10:36 AM
> --- On Mon, 12/8/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm scared to death of fire, and I would not live
> in a
> > trailer in MO (tornado-s) ; Now; I might pay you to
> let me
> > live in a small shack we threw together  :-).
> Seriously,
> > van Dell.  Thank's.  If James is right , I might
> very
> > well have to flee the city and would need a temporary
> rental
> > place, but I could never live long term in a trailer,
> > because of the two reasonsI mentioned................
> >
>
> There is sufficient timber here to build a
> "shack", lets go upscale and call it a cabin,
> currently there is plenty of unused space to put one.  If
> you are interested we could consider something that would
> give you a place that you could use, at least for a few
> years to try things out.
> Van Dell