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Creek, spring 2005...
Dad on a Cub Cadet 3184 I built out of 2 wrecked ones, at side of house, spring 2005...
New shop, fall 2005...
Sadie the LGD and goats, winter, 2006...
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Sweetpea Farms
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08/27/07, 11:40 AM
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okay I am going to try a slide show...
Should work . Click on the picture and you should be able to see our place.
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08/27/07, 12:33 PM
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JimS, I love your barn. It looks almost exactly like the one on my parents' place.
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08/27/07, 01:15 PM
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Thnx for all the compliments! We are in the northeast corner of Texas, it is the most beautiful part of Texas, as far as I am concerned!
I always wanted a log house, but looks like the mobile will have to do, since we inherited dad's place, and that is what he had put there.
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I had no idea we were such close neighbors...you are right..it is the most beautiful part of Texas....
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08/27/07, 01:53 PM
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view from the hill where we are going to build
Barney in the creek:
view at the current place:
current 1920's farm house we are living in:
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08/27/07, 02:08 PM
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Found some new pics-
front of house
Barn and hillbilly pool
we have extended the pasture area and added a horse since then!
Kids with kids!
back of the the house 
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08/27/07, 02:19 PM
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Another American Patriot
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Location: Living in the Metroplex. Moving to the country in Oct. 2009.
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I had no idea we were such close neighbors...you are right..it is the most beautiful part of Texas....
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Our place is there, also ... Maybe we'll all meet up one day!
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08/27/07, 02:36 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Colombia South America
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Ford8N,
Visiting Cali is perfectly safe, Cali actually has a fair gringo population. There are about 13,000 gringos in the Bogotá area, the Bogotá airport has about 21 planes arriving from the U.S. everyday loaded with gringos and tourists.
I've been doing business here for 12 years and living here full time for 5, love the place with the year around spring weather, but I'm pretty much burned out on waiting until "manana" for everything and the quality of workmanship here is not the best in my opinion.
We are actually looking into moving back, possibly to the Ozarks or maybe KY, who knows.
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08/27/07, 03:32 PM
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Knitting Rocks!
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Location: North East Texas
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I had no idea we were such close neighbors...you are right..it is the most beautiful part of Texas....
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We have lots of homesteadingtoday neighbors! You would be surprised.
I have a great location, an hour to Texarkana, an hour to Shreveport, an hour to Longview.
But I mostly stay in my neck of the woods! lol!
Love all those log cabins.... I may just have to get me one yet!
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08/27/07, 03:47 PM
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JimS, I love your barn. It looks almost exactly like the one on my parents' place.
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Thanks! It's 70 years old and solid oak. Made from lumber sawmilled off the place when they cleared it. It used to be a 400-acre farm; most of that is now houses. The barn needs some siding, and it is going to get it as soon as I can afford it. It is worth saving. It has a built in corn crib I'd like to take out for the space, and I would like to put two slider doors in the center back opening. The loft holds over 1,000 square bales. We've had 1,100 in there. I now store rolls up there.
The original portion of my house is also solid oak...studs, rafter, joists, and floor and wall sheathing! We put in central heat and air...you should have seen those guys trying to saw holes! Sawzall blades went BING, BING, BING!!!
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Sweetpea Farms
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08/27/07, 03:52 PM
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A'sta at Hofstead, that looks like a Massey Ferguson 35 or 50?? With gennie M-F loader. I have a loader just like that on my MF50. Look at my pic of Dad bush-hogging in this thread.
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Sweetpea Farms
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08/27/07, 04:16 PM
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I decided to join the fun! These were all taken within the last hour.
One chicken and two of the wild turkeys that hang out near our coop. The most we ever counted was 73 at one time.
The new planting
Wheat that is due to be harvested in a day or two
The corn field
The pond, with our Canadian Geese semi-permanent guests
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08/27/07, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim S.
Thanks! It's 70 years old and solid oak. Made from lumber sawmilled off the place when they cleared it. It used to be a 400-acre farm; most of that is now houses. The barn needs some siding, and it is going to get it as soon as I can afford it. It is worth saving. It has a built in corn crib I'd like to take out for the space, and I would like to put two slider doors in the center back opening. The loft holds over 1,000 square bales. We've had 1,100 in there. I now store rolls up there.
The original portion of my house is also solid oak...studs, rafter, joists, and floor and wall sheathing! We put in central heat and air...you should have seen those guys trying to saw holes! Sawzall blades went BING, BING, BING!!!
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The barn on my parents place was built in '34 I believe, in the same fashion...sawed from their own trees at the same time the house was built. The house is completely built of heart pine. The barn also has a built in corn crib and three stalls with hay chutes from the loft.
I love that barn and it breaks my heart that it will be torn down. When Daddy was sick with cancer he wouldn't let anyone do repairs on it...kept saying he would do them when he was better. He never got better and died two years ago of colon cancer. Now the floor joists in the barn loft have rotted and it's unsafe.
I plan to salvage as much of the barn as I can and we will use it to finish our TV room above the garage. (Although I still haven't given up hopes of saving it.)
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Wow....you all have such wonderful homes. I am especially jealous of those of you with water and views. We live in the woods on about 4 1/2 acres, but as I get more into the homesteading, I want more land...smaller house! For now though, it is a great area, beautiful hardwoods, and a good start for us!
This is the back yard...I wish DH would clear more!!
This is a massive hill on one side of the house and since we don't see much snow here, the kids "land surf"!
All the animals off to the right of the yard.
The house from the road.
This is next door...about 50 ft from my property line. Ya think he'd let me "acquire" some of his land??!! LOL...He is a nice guy and lets us fish his ponds since we have no water on our property. Now, he has my DREAM homestead!
Keep posting...this is really cool!
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08/27/07, 06:31 PM
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Location: Wyoming
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You all have such beautiful homes! Ours is comfortable, but very plain and not near as large as some of these. I will not covet.....I will not covet......I will not covet.... 
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08/27/07, 06:40 PM
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Location: Forests of maine
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Our backyard
Our creek
The river out back
Gomer
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08/27/07, 07:41 PM
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Knitting Rocks!
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Location: North East Texas
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Our backyard
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Awwww! I want Gomer!
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08/27/07, 08:43 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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hmm, Gomer steak or Gomer sausage?
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Im gonna try to get some pics of the place we live in today after our guests leave. It needs a LOT of work, and we are just starting, so try to see the potential? 
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08/28/07, 08:41 AM
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Gimme a YAAAAY!
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NC Arkansas
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Our place
pond in the woods... DH's "park" is welcoming
trail to pond in woods
barn, stable, corral area
back pasture... as of this morning... DRY DRY DRY!!
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