tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post8021837326828541826..comments2023-10-25T05:22:34.882-04:00Comments on f8hasit: years passed by...f8hasithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09195691823384775191noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-88141638918201371742010-10-04T00:52:14.623-04:002010-10-04T00:52:14.623-04:00I totally loved this story of town and family hist...I totally loved this story of town and family history, two of my favorite subjects. I can totally understand your renters anxiety, I sure hope you let them stay there and that you keep the old homestead.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979939882187985994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-26592771612070823672010-09-22T11:37:37.424-04:002010-09-22T11:37:37.424-04:00What a beautiful, heartfelt memory. Like a preciou...What a beautiful, heartfelt memory. Like a precious piece of treasure from the memory banks. Lovingly told.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-25964050191360827992010-09-18T14:11:12.811-04:002010-09-18T14:11:12.811-04:00I love your description of the farm and everything...I love your description of the farm and everything it has meant to you and your family. It is a piece of your family history and that is why you don't want to sell it. I felt like I was reading a piece from an historical fiction novel. i could just visualize the parlor and having tea and cookies there. It reminds me of my freshman house at Smith College. It was a very old home with a parlor like you describe. We did have tea and cookies every Friday in there. I think you should plant the the orchard and bring the vitality back to the farm. Who knows...maybe one day you daughter might want to live there or you might want to retire there. You never know!DrSoosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445723747109775244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-33526224008229387732010-09-17T23:39:45.011-04:002010-09-17T23:39:45.011-04:00Man... in reading this, I revisited all of the pla...Man... in reading this, I revisited all of the places, not only from my childhood, but places that my Mom and Dad would tell me about. I never got to see the family home on the farm in Illinois where Dad was born and raised, but we still own the land. Maybe someday I will go back there.<br /><br />I would build that house of which you speak... and spend as much time as possible there... someone mentioned completing a karmic circle... I so believe this to be true.<br /><br />:o)<br /><br />~shoes~Red Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01919277206516592912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-46960550829236457172010-09-17T11:42:08.440-04:002010-09-17T11:42:08.440-04:00Hi,
Lovely post. This is the thing I Love about ...Hi,<br /><br />Lovely post. This is the thing I Love about blogging, a place to tell a beautiful story that may not have been told so eloquently in another mediam. <br /><br />I say, keep it, and maybe one day your daughter will be blogging her story!ToBlog todayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15215485087602615189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-38106652676245611092010-09-17T11:16:58.924-04:002010-09-17T11:16:58.924-04:00Oh this is so sweet. Its remarkable how ... some p...Oh this is so sweet. Its remarkable how ... some places call to us and draw our spirits to them - and no matter the years since - or the changes - we can once more find those places without map, mis-step or error.<br /><br />My Mom's parents retired to a small farm in the middle of nowhere New Hampshire - and I can still smell the heat of the sun off the rocks that were piled up to make boundary wall/fences... and my other grandparents had a cellar like yours.. with the canned and "put up" foods in a white pantry down in the darkness.. and this too, had a scent - a sharp flinty one of mica stone and african violet potting soil...<br /><br />Nancy... one question... "That would make Mom happy" - mmm... what would make YOU happy?<br /><br />p.s., this is a masterpiece of writting...Intense Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441598926026727682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-84830633352870229412010-09-17T11:15:38.160-04:002010-09-17T11:15:38.160-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Intense Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441598926026727682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-55953499846207300832010-09-16T10:18:25.668-04:002010-09-16T10:18:25.668-04:00Hello, I'm sorry that I communicate with you v...Hello, I'm sorry that I communicate with you via Google Translate, but I really liked your family history. I'm in a place with you experiencing the vivid and sad moments in life and take on your family history. I am very familiar and close your story, I experienced something similar. I live in <a href="http://www.mymogilev.ru/2009/08/blog-post.html" rel="nofollow">Mogilev in Belarus</a>. If you wish to view information about my city - click on the link above or contact WIKIMy Mogilevhttp://www.mymogilev.ru/2010/04/zvezdochet-v-gorode-mogileve-chut-li-ne.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-11306801741098958602010-09-16T09:31:33.990-04:002010-09-16T09:31:33.990-04:00what a treasure to have a farm in your 'back p...what a treasure to have a farm in your 'back pocket'.... despite the paper burden, it is an connection to the past and a promise to the future.<br /><br />I loved how your cellar memories brought up my own memories of both my grandmothers' cellars. however, unlike you, i loved those dark cellars. the treasures in both swept away the potential creepiness. I always found the jarred homemade bounty was like jeweled treasures - all the colors. <br /><br />until my grandparents switched to oil the cellars also had coal bins which never failed to fascinate me...... ah thanks for the memories nancy!minerva mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10341686576873868103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-92101733188902982512010-09-15T07:10:07.836-04:002010-09-15T07:10:07.836-04:00You have swept me away with this post, Nancy.
It i...You have swept me away with this post, Nancy.<br />It is just beautiful.It Worked For Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09003161078127410461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-39164037080153779932010-09-14T22:53:31.840-04:002010-09-14T22:53:31.840-04:00I LOVE THIS POST!!!!!! such memories you've br...I LOVE THIS POST!!!!!! such memories you've brought back for me. I wouldn't want to sell it either. I think building a little weekend getaway sounds fabulous! I love going back to the mountains at least once a months. We're almost four hours way, but it feels like a world away while we're there. The stress just melts away as we convene with nature.SuziCatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04025931724313344438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-19163407885409440922010-09-14T19:58:44.552-04:002010-09-14T19:58:44.552-04:00Selling the farm would be tragic if you can afford...Selling the farm would be tragic if you can afford keeping it. That's your heritage and your space. Not many of us have either thing.C. Alderetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05320598427444768427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-23321452907793135512010-09-14T10:11:31.318-04:002010-09-14T10:11:31.318-04:00I loved reading this. I felt your love of the farm...I loved reading this. I felt your love of the farm just radiate from your words. Keep the farm if at all possible.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17756564685282866773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-35347447417111381212010-09-14T09:28:32.551-04:002010-09-14T09:28:32.551-04:00This was wonderful!! I didn't grow up on a fa...This was wonderful!! I didn't grow up on a farm, but we had enough relatives that we visited from as far back as I can remember that I could easily relate to your memories. Except my relatives had chickens and dairy cows--and lots of barn cats. <br />Yup! You should build a little getaway place!! :):)Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043285884495492598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-14509751077228431602010-09-13T23:45:50.879-04:002010-09-13T23:45:50.879-04:00I hope you do....I think it would be wonderful to ...I hope you do....I think it would be wonderful to have something like that in your life...a bit of sentimental space but growing, green and new each year as well.CAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06722605415309678068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-8253422259519437172010-09-13T22:05:28.765-04:002010-09-13T22:05:28.765-04:00Oh, Nancy--I have just returned from Ohio and drov...Oh, Nancy--I have just returned from Ohio and drove through Newark, just north of which is the farm where my grandpa grew up, and I have spent the last month thinking about that farm and wishing so much that I could return to it just for a day to see it...the blog post I just posted is all about these thoughts, and here you have given me a gift of knowing what it was like to grow up on a farm JUST DOWN THE ROAD! It's really such a wonderful serendipitous moment. I hope so much that you can keep that farm for yourself and Boo...there is nothing in this world that can replace it or would be worth as much as what you could sell it for; at least this is how I'm feeling about my grandpa's farm, which is long gone. How I wish I could return to it! Thank you so much for this beautiful post.Dreamfarm Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08494214244290730058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-29598168435767431432010-09-13T21:32:55.234-04:002010-09-13T21:32:55.234-04:00Thanks Lynn...that's a fab compliment. "T...Thanks Lynn...that's a fab compliment. "The love you hae for this place oozes out in your words..." I really like that!<br /><br />To all...I didn't grow up on the farm, but my mom and her brother did. I went and spent many a holiday and many summers there. Every crevace of the place holds some fond memory or another. You'll probably end up hearing them all at one time or another! :-)<br /><br />Thanks, as always, for your gracious comments...<br />Nancyf8hasithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09195691823384775191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-60939889672982695682010-09-13T21:32:51.331-04:002010-09-13T21:32:51.331-04:00Oh I love stories from the olden-days! I'd kee...Oh I love stories from the olden-days! I'd keep it too.Mrs Catchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00451875041973822074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-22118408056584259002010-09-13T20:02:01.219-04:002010-09-13T20:02:01.219-04:00That sounds like a dream...kinda wish I grew up on...That sounds like a dream...kinda wish I grew up on a farm...Oddyoddyo13https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557994037779209704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-35085342093061125052010-09-13T19:34:00.947-04:002010-09-13T19:34:00.947-04:00What vibrant memories you have...so enjoyable to r...What vibrant memories you have...so enjoyable to read about them. And, yeah, keeping the farm would make your mom happy.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882248671520480556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-69147756142913230112010-09-13T19:22:38.088-04:002010-09-13T19:22:38.088-04:00What a wonderful post! And a great idea, rebuildin...What a wonderful post! And a great idea, rebuilding the place a bit and adding a getaway space for yourself. Wow.Nancy/BLissed-Out Grandmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17223278142557533175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-83015674862518650002010-09-13T16:41:16.262-04:002010-09-13T16:41:16.262-04:00Now that's what I call childhood! Sounds so p...Now that's what I call childhood! Sounds so picturesque and sweet :)<br /><br />My grandfathers home holds those same memories for me. Only they lived closer to town and we would run off all day and not return till evening. Sometimes friends of his would tell us it was time to go home and give us a lift back to the farm!<br /><br />I don't know if people were nicer then or I was just a little more trusting then...Beatrizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05708802259796562524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-83035987812650529402010-09-13T15:08:50.640-04:002010-09-13T15:08:50.640-04:00What wonderful memories you have of the farm. If ...What wonderful memories you have of the farm. If at all possible, keep it. I dare say you won't regret that decision.<br /><br />God bless!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634642713559547536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-88850230213751945002010-09-13T13:14:54.397-04:002010-09-13T13:14:54.397-04:00A little place in the back - wouldn't that be ...A little place in the back - wouldn't that be a perfect weekend getaway spot? And for longer vacations, if you chose? I think that would be heaven!Carolhttp://www.mysiteontheweb.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4569955034831489569.post-80340446191300604972010-09-13T12:23:37.577-04:002010-09-13T12:23:37.577-04:00This is beautifully written and heartfelt. Looking...This is beautifully written and heartfelt. Looking back is something we all must do -- in order to move forward. Well done. I love your heart and mind. <br /><br />ChristineChristine Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139820957031345995noreply@blogger.com