Hi everyone, my name is Terry. I have been lurking here since Jay started this site. I am a single female, age 44. All of my children are grown and living on their own, unless you count the four legged kind. I have a dog and 2 cats. As I type this my cat Felix is sitting on my lap trying to help. I am currently living in town while saving to get back out into the country. My ex got my homestead in the divorce so I am kindof starting over.

Even though I am in town right now, I garden and teach my neighbors about gardening. They are amazed at how much I grow in a small space. Sometimes I am too. I really miss having chickens, turkeys, pigs and goats. I read about everyone and their animals and it makes me long to get back to the land. I have tried to make the best of being in town. All my neighbors animals come out to greet me everyday when I get home from work, but perhaps that is because I always have a treat or two.

Anyway, I just wanted to say HI.

Terry

-- Terry (tterrym@netzero.net), March 06, 2002

Answers

Hi, Terry, welcome aboard. Where about are you located now, and where was your homestead?

-- Bob Herrick in So. Calif. (herrickr@inreach.com), March 07, 2002.

I currently live in Kent, Washington. My homestead was in Sumner Washington (western Washington)

-- Terry (tterrym@netzero.net), March 07, 2002.

I have never been in Western Washington, but at one time, all four of my sisters and their families lived in Kirkland, Washington, on Puget sound. I used to go by/through Kent on the way to and from Kirland, as the kids and I vacationed yearly up there with family.

-- Bob Herrick in So. Calif. (herrickr@inreach.com), March 07, 2002.

Oops, I meant to say I had never been to Eastern Washington. Kirkland is obviously in Western Washington.

-- Bob Herrick in So. Calif. (herrickr@inreach.com), March 07, 2002.

Terry,

Welcome to the 'tree. Hope we can help you feel less out of it. Please post about your urban homesteading ventures. I would love hearing of them. I am heavy into BISF experimentation here to maximize my 1 1/2 acre of ground.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), March 07, 2002.

Welcome Terry! This is a fun group. You gotta watch-out for that Jay, he has worms (VBG). But feel free to dream your dreams here.

Susan

-- Susan in MN (nanaboo@paulbunyan.net), March 07, 2002.