Rural Living Tips = $1.3 Million!

[Hakim]

Move over, Martha: Native Utahn may be next domestic maven - with a rural twist

By Nicholas K. Geranios
Associated Press

MOSCOW, Idaho — Rural living is a little different on Mary Jane Butters' farm.

Hens lay eggs. Workers fill bags of dried soup. Editors prepare the next edition of her magazine. Television producers call.

Mary Jane Butters sits in old truck on her farm outside Moscow, Idaho. She just inked $1.3 million book deal.

Butters presides over the bustle, positioning herself to become the new Martha Stewart while the original maven of gracious living prepares for a January securities-fraud trial.

Clarkson Potter, a Random House branch that also publishes Stewart's books, will pay Butters $1.3 million for two books that highlight the rural skills and do-it-yourself philosophy she has developed on her organic farm.

The first book, "Mary Jane's Gathering Place," is scheduled to be published in spring 2005. The second is tentatively due out in 2006.

The book deal has started a stampede in all things Mary Jane. A newspaper column, which had been appearing in three free weeklies in the Northwest, is being shopped to nationwide syndicators.

Television producers are calling about doing a show.

Full Story Here

Note: Also posted on CBN.

 

[AndyM]

You guys need to call up the people at the HGTV network and pitch the idea of "Tractor By Net-- the television show"

I can see the headline now-- TBN guys ink $1.3 million deal for new tractor TV show.

Muhammad and Hakim can host the show and they can bring special guests on each week like Bird giving expert tractor advice. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[gws]

I dont know about HGTV, but RFDTV or OLN always need programming.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You guys need to call up the people at the HGTV network and pitch the idea of "Tractor By Net-- the television show"

I can see the headline now-- TBN guys ink $1.3 million deal for new tractor TV show.

Muhammad and Hakim can host the show and they can bring special guests on each week like Bird giving expert tractor advice. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )</font>

 

[Golfgar4]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Muhammad and Hakim can host the show and they can bring special guests on each week like Bird giving expert tractor advice. )</font>

I don't know if the TV people would want to produce a show where all you see of one of the hosts is a shoe! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[AndyM]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( dont know about HGTV, but RFDTV or OLN always need programming. )</font>

OK, I give. What's RFDTV and OLN? We're the only people left in the world without cable or a dish, and I've lost track of what channels are out there these days.

 

[DougM]

I live just south of U and I have 3-5-8 for tv

but it is FREE

Doug M /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> "I don't know if the TV people would want to produce a show where all you see of one of the hosts is a shoe!" </font>

Not so fast, GolfGar. Remember Wilson Wilson, the next door neighbor on 'Home Improvement' with Tim Allen? You never saw his face, either. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You never saw his face, either. )</font>

True, Gary.

But at least we saw the eyes and part of his face. We knew that he was a real person.

I mean, come on! That shoe could be hanging on the end of a stick for all we know!

I'd settle for a Wilson Wilson look, as long as Muhammad wore a TBN hat! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Slamfire]

I know what OLN is but I can't afford it. It was fun to watch the gold miners when the satellite company had the come on freebies. RFD-TV is self explanitory and comes with the basic package on DISH.

 

[AndyM]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I live just south of U and I have 3-5-8 for tv

but it is FREE )</font>

Yeah, there's a couple channels on the cable that I wouldn't mind having, but I can't justify paying for 70 channels just to watch one or two shows a week. I put an antenna in the garage attic and I get channels 21-27-33 pretty well. 3-5-8 in Cleveland are fuzzy, but I get 2-4-11 out of Pittsburgh about the same.

Anyhoo, I just did a google search on RFD-TV and I see they have a show called "Talkin' Tractors"
Has anyone seen it? Is it informative at all?