Stuck in the past or favoring the old ways.

[Egon]

[A lot of people have more conveniences than ever before and appear to be ungrateful for those conveniences. One would think we'd be more appreciative for what we have. /QUOTE]

If you don't have all the conveniences you have to work. If you have all the conveniences you have to work harder to maintain and replace them!

Bird; we had a cast iron Franklin stove the house we built. It was imported and not of the greatest quality. It fell to the wayside in favor of a Regency airtight stove after a few years.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Just found this thread...And i like it.

We do have too many electric items in the house and i would like to get rid of some...BUT.... the kids wouldn't know how to act.

We have 3 desktop computers, 4 laptops, 6 T V's, phones all over, cell phones, kids have playstations, mp3's and we do have GPS radios for hunting on land that we haven't been on before, and etc...

But we do have a big garden, fruit trees, chickens, wife makes our bread and grinds the wheat berries, makes soap, candles, we have milk goats, do a lot of canning, make jelly, syrup and etc.. etc..

Me and my wife will be 43 this year, our family can't understand why we do the work we do in our garden.__BUT__when they get hungry they know where to go for a home cooked meal

This is what we canned last year.
Green beans___Corn____Tomatoes___Salsa___Sweet Pickles.

Grape Jelly__Apple Jelly__Cinnamon Jelly__Peach Jelly___Plum Preserves.

Apples__Apple Jelly__Apple Butter__Apple Sauce__Apple Syrup__Peaches__Peach jelly.

I cut my own wood and split___Have a wood splitter.__Thank God!

We home school our daughter and son.___We go camping a lot.

We save our heirloom garden seed for the next season.Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - 1275 Heirloom Seed Varieties!

And yes Egon, we love Brandywine tomatoes too.___OMG they are good.

We hunt deer, rabbit, squirrel and turkey.__And process the meat ourself's and we fish

We haven't bought store eggs in years.

We do many other things too and would like to do more, but have no extra time.

I have added some pictures.
_________________________

Picture showing the wheat and the grinder.

Picture of the homemade bread and biscuits.

Picture showing some of different things we canned.__(last year's)

Picture of 75 tomatoe plants.__(and i have more plants started also)

Picture of soap made from goats milk.

Picture of Raspberry leafs for homemade tea.___(That's not wacky weed)

picture of my Grandmothers sewing machine.__(wife don't want new)

 

[Bird]

We never ground wheat, but when I was a kid, Dad sometimes bought raw wheat. Did you ever chew it like chewing gum? It get quite rubbery. And Mother used to boil wheat and we'd eat it like breakfast cereal with sugar and milk or cream.

 

[Egon]

Oh yes, I used to chew wheat and end up with a gummy ball. The wheat we grew was not the right hardness for proper making of bread. A few times some would be ground for some special bread.

I'm glad for you with all those Tomatoe sets. Those Brandywinw will dry nicely too. Last year we had a terrible tomatoe season which resulted in limited harvest.

The last few years my "Set's" have been neglible due to medical problems and travell plans. Maybe next year.

Bean soup made from some home grown beans.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Did you ever chew it like chewing gum?

Never did chew wheat.

When i was about 12, this old timer use to pay me and a friend to look for his ducks that were nesting on the creek bank, and we would get in his barn and fill our pockets full of whole corn and try to chew it.

I'm glad for you with all those Tomatoe sets.

Bean soup made from some home grown beans.

We love those Brandywine tomatoes...this makes 4 years with them.

Egon,__Did you look at that Heirloom seed website??

*That soup sure looks good*___Would be real good on this rainy day.

Wife just got another fresh loaf of bread out.__Smells real good, would be good with that soup

 

[Egon]

Wife just got another fresh loaf of bread out.__Smells real good,

Now you gotta make one of Prokop's ovens!

I've looked at a number of heirloom seed sites.

 

[Bill Barrett]

I'm a big time teckie, with wood stoves. Antiques I use. Make wine and beer.
I love and use the old ways. But love high teck too.
We have 10 acers of wheat planted, we plan on grinding flower.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Now you gotta make one of Prokop's ovens!

Well i showed her the oven.__AND__ i have to build it this summer

She has been wanting a wood stove in the kitchen for years, but i told her noway to install one in here, she couldn't understand why not, so i said i can... just bust the window out, and run the pipe out it

 

[scott_vt]

Just found this thread...And i like it.

We have 3 desktop computers, 4 laptops, 6 T V's, phones all over, cell phones, kids have playstations, mp3's and we do have GPS radios for hunting on land that we haven't been on before, and etc...

But we do have a big garden, fruit trees, chickens, wife makes our bread and grinds the wheat berries, makes soap, candles, we have milk goats, do a lot of canning, make jelly, syrup and etc.. etc..

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Good Evenin Bill,
Seven computers !

Glad to hear about the garden, those canned vegetables look real good !

 

[GreenWannabe]

Bird, Jim, Egon - I have to agree with you. And let me add a few "memories" to the list of things I'm glad to no longer have to contend with. Didn't have the farm experiences, city boy raised in the country for the first eight years of my life.

Item: Popping the food coloring blister on the margarine bag, and squeezing it thoughout to color the margarine. Really miss the durn margarine bag bursting occasionally.

Item: Seeing the cream rising on the only milk we could get, whole milk fresh from a local farmer. And then using the u-shaped siphon to siphon off the cream - don't know what my mother did with the cream. And pasturizing the milk in our mail order pasturizer come from Kansas City.

Item - The ice box, with the outside door where the local ice man delivered a new 25 pound block every other day.

Item - the bare plywood walls my Dad put up over the bare studs there when we bought the place.

And I remember well when we first got electric power - twice, because we didn't have it again when we moved to the middle of Missouri in 1948, after we got it way out in western Saint Louis County in 1947.

And as a computer specialist, I always swore I would not have a computer in the house - too much like a busman's holiday! But I relented when my daughter was starting to work with an Apple II in 4th grade, and finally bought an Apple II GS. The next two, an entry level 286 and an entry level 486, I bought for my wife to help her to gain skills needed as she changed jobs during the 90's. I pretty much held out myself until I got a Pentium 500 in 1999, at my wife's urging. Now, of course, I've got a laptop with all the bells and whistles, almost four years old, that I use mostly for surfing the internet and participating on tractor forums!

Regards,

Fred