You have to love the farm

[Grumpy old man]

Cool summer morning sun coming up , hot coffee on the deck watching 7 does out in my pasture with the occasional bull bellowing looking for his cows ,roosters crowing back and forth between farms spread out for miles and not one car going down the road . Green acres is the life for me ! Anyone remember that song ?

[kingsolver72]

Yep, I love my little farm. It's raining here this am. We need it.
"Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside".

[72supr]

Yep,live two miles from where I was born never left didn't see the need for it.All kinds of wildlife.Breedind season right now Grumpy and the bulls are making a lot of noise along with some babies,hopefully. Like Oliver said "Farm livin it's the life for me".

[Gotenntitans]

My dad owns the 125 acre farm that he grew up on in south Arkansas. Too many deer for a garden anymore, but that just means good hunting in the Fall. I enjoy being there and helping my dad keep the farm up by mowing, bush hogging, spraying fences, etc. HOT down here now, though. Almost too hot to get out of the house........not much relief in sight.

I remember my grandparents living there with all of their animals and the big breakfasts my grandma would put on the table, WOW! I remember picking purple hull peas early in the morning, then we'd all sit on the front porch and shell them and have peas & cornbread for supper. I remember gathering corn and shucking it under a huge walnut tree behind the house. The horses would come and eat those husks as fast as we could shuck them off. We used to eat watermelons under that tree too and the horses loved the rinds too. That was all back in the 70s. Grandparents, horses, and even the big walnut tree are gone now. I'll always have those memories, though. GTT

[Advanced Design]

We left the farm after graduating and came back 13 years later to raise our kids. That was one of the best decisions we've ever made. That was 20 years ago. The peace, quiet and ability to actually think clearly are just a few of the benefits. We don't have to spend money to have fun.

Oh, the deer have become a nuisance now. Six were having a banquet in the bean field the other day.

[68bowtie]

Originally Posted by Grumpy old man

Cool summer morning sun coming up , hot coffee on the deck watching 7 does out in my pasture with the occasional bull bellowing looking for his cows ,roosters crowing back and forth between farms spread out for miles and not one car going down the road . Green acres is the life for me ! Anyone remember that song ?

i was born in the wrong state that's for sure! that sounds amazing. still, i make what i can of it. 7 am, the rest of the family still asleep, hot coffee in hand, barefoot in the side yard tinkering with the truck. i have to drive out of state for the bucks...

[Grumpy old man]

Originally Posted by 72supr

Yep,live two miles from where I was born never left didn't see the need for it.All kinds of wildlife.Breedind season right now Grumpy and the bulls are making a lot of noise along with some babies,hopefully. Like Oliver said "Farm livin it's the life for me".

We've got 6 bulls and a passel of cows all black Angus , biggest bull about 2200 lbs and he knows it ! He's pretty calm but I keep my four wheeler or a good fence between us . Every calf dropped in the pasture runs about $1,000 this time next year cash money . We'll knock down 2 steers for freezer beef for the whole extended family and all the rest (steers and older cows ) go to auction . That old big Mac your eating could be from a tired old cow 20 years old ! They say all beef not prime 2 year old steer .

[CG]

We bought part of my wifes family farm years ago. Spent a ton of time redoing the home her father was raised in. Amazing views of the mountains, on the river, just a great place. Too bad it became a favorite place for site seeing, kids on insane motorcycles, people out to find a place to drive fast, and even race. A constant parade of idiots on nice days.

The road wound around and opened up on a very long flat stretch in front of our place. I ended up hating it out there. We sold it to her cousin.

I still have a ton of stuff stored in the barns and when I go out there on a nice day Im thinking man I wish I still lived out here, and then some jackwad on a bike or a Ferrari or some noisy piece of crap will open it up ... Im glad I don't live out there =)

[sboris]

I wouldn't trade this life for anything. The views, the peace n quiet, animals, adventure for the kids.
I work n the city, always get razzed about moving. Never..

[flashed]

We only have 40 acres of farm but it backs up to 200 more acres and my inlaws have 85 more on one side of us and 30 on the other side and 40 across the road from us .Always all kinds of wildlife but the groundhogs and coyotes are the only things in danger of losing their life by me .

[72supr]

Grumpy,raise my own beef too.Have run out a few times and had to buy from the grocery store.It doesn't compare.More people should buy straight from the producer there is quite the difference.That Twenty year old cow you mentioned is called "aged beef".

[Nontwisty396]

Moved away from the farm in the Willamette Valley after high school. Went to Seattle, worked my tail off at many jobs in auto industry and construction. Moved back to the family farm 15 years later. Didn't return with fame or fortune, but never regretted coming back. Seattle is great if you like insane assylums with open door policies. Give me wheat, oats, ryegrass, clover, you name it over knife fights over spilt beer. ( but my old Chevy truck with it's built 396 walked all over that POS beamer! Yeah, the city boy thought putting a fart can on it made it fast...ahh, I love settling disputes by "letting the machine speak")
I love the quiet mornings here, coffee in hand, watching the neighbor in his old bi-plane do acrobatics when he's not spraying fields. And the sunrises and sunsets here...WOW!

[68C15]

I'm jealous. I'd really like to live on a farm. Wife says she wants to also but I don't think she sees the whole picture. She'd be woke up in the morning to me shooting off the deck or from a kitchen window. BLAM.......ding

I've gotten to the point in my life where I don't want neighbors closer than 1/4 mile. I still like people, just need my space.

Grumpy, from reading that I can smell the coffee, hear the roosters and almost see the bull. Thank you

[A1971Blazer]

Looking toward my "back 40"....at a feeder I cobbled together from a pallet and scrap lumber......
they "posed" for this shot (picture)...this is about 75 feet from my back patio

[midniteblues]

Awe come on guys what's not too like about, bars on every street corner for entertainment into the early hours of the morning.

Trash blowing and gathering in the stunted city trees and gutters.

Hearing Gun shots then sirens every few hours.

Gangs of loud mouths hanging on the porches all nite with boom boxes.

The fart can cars zooming as fast as they can 400ft. Too the next stop sign just too do it again.

Shoveling a parking space for an hr. So the lazy people up the street can jump in it and not move the car for a week.

Keeping a janitorial sized key ring cause everything you own has 2-4 pad locks on it.

Old tv's dumped in the alley behind "your" yard.

The best part is always up grading your cars audio system every few weeks since somebody likes your more than you did but they didn't like your window.

Bars on the windows.

Locking every door every time you go in and out.

And always having the feeling like your stuff is being watched over very carefully by that strange fella that tried too sell you his shoes the other week.

Oh and I forgot about all the artists that must have an unlimited supply of spray paint too tag every board on your fence. And everywhere there is a "blank" spot.....sure wish I could read his name though.

The cops that pretend too arrest the working girl down the street. But you find the same # cruiser parked in the dark spot out behind your work with fogged windows.

Yhea,um been there done that.

No more.

I would rather be deep in the woods in a nice little hollow with a creek flowing nearby.

My comprise is a very very small town that was just deemed a village.....and yes the idiot lives here.

[Grumpy old man]

I have 2 places here the bigger farm 35 miles west of Knoxville the smaller place 30 miles east of Knoxville we got not long ago so mz Grumpy could be closer to her mom who is getting on in years and feeling poorly , Shortly after moving over here her mom suddenly became the vacation traveler in perfect health and traveling to Portarico ? A few times and all over the U.S. now I comute back and forth a few times a week trying to keep up with everything . Good old mom you have to love her wanting her daughter close .........grrr

[CG]

Couple old pics from out on the farm. My K20, my K10 and Bonni the rubber chicken.

[mingoman]

The farm is my happy place as well. It should be too after I traded so many years of life to get it!

[chip46wis]

I see people so set on living in the city---money money all the time--too many people--oh the neighbors bought another new--whatever--so we have to buy one also----its called the rat race and I have tried it but came back to the country,6 acres with huge oaks,deer ,bears,nice garden and apple trees 18 of them.I seldom go to the larger city 14 miles away with its 80,000 people and I can honestly say I feel sorry for them and their phony lives.

[mongocanfly]

I've been a country boy all my life..live 1/4 mile from where I grew up in a log cabin that was built before the war between us and them yankees..always had 2 big gardens, cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, you name it.we grew what we ate..i have no regrets...never could understand how people can live all jammed up against each other in town..it would drive me crazy..I guess its all in how and where you was brung up..

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by CG

Couple old pics from out on the farm. My K20, my K10 and Bonni the rubber chicken.

Man, I just love everything about that black 71.

[CG]

Originally Posted by kingsolver72

Man, I just love everything about that black 71.

Yeah I hear ya on that one. But I'm really a moron when it comes to old cars and trucks. I always have to have the next one. I would be pretty close to a zillion dollars (or more) ahead if I would have just stuck with that one.

Old Iron finished it up (redid all my goofs and more lol) and it really is great truck. The sad thing is he has offered to sell it back to me, but I never really had what he wanted in a lump sum. Although with all the crap Ive bought and sold and done nothing with since then I probably could have bought it five times ... sigh haha!

Both my sons learned to drive with that truck. I have a pic of my grand daughter standing next to it when she was little ... she is so cute. Eleven now, whoosh, there goes time.

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by CG

Yeah I hear ya on that one. But I'm really a moron when it comes to old cars and trucks. I always have to have the next one. I would be pretty close to a zillion dollars (or more) ahead if I would have just stuck with that one.

Old Iron finished it up (redid all my goofs and more lol) and it really is great truck. The sad thing is he has offered to sell it back to me, but I never really had what he wanted in a lump sum. Although with all the crap Ive bought and sold and done nothing with since then I probably could have bought it five times ... sigh haha!

Both my sons learned to drive with that truck. I have a pic of my grand daughter standing next to it when she was little ... she is so cute. Eleven now, whoosh, there goes time.

I'm the same way Mark. I sorta subscribe to 72IronMikes philosophy..." There's always another truck out there". One of these days that ain't going to be true though.

[pritch]

I'm not on a farm, just a little half-a-acre of paradise, but this is the view looking out my back yard.

Looking south/west:


Looking north/west:


Pretty rural. The closest town has about a thousand people, 4 miles north. Park City ski area is about 20 miles away, and Salt Lake is 50 miles. Wyoming is closer than SL.

I, too, am straight outta Compton. The folks moved to Santa Barbara when I was 3 and to here when I was 13. I ain't too likely to live anywhere else.

[CG]

Ive driven my motorcycle from bottom to top and east to west in Utah, its amazingly beautiful. Something for everyone's tastes there, kinda like Washington.