How many of you guys go it alone?

C'mon now, this is the twenty first century not the nineteenth!

Quilting I haven't taken up. Diana does the sewing in the house though I can handle simple pants hemming, buttons, and so on.

I clean the toilet more often than she does and do a better job of it to boot!

I haven't canned tomatoes in years. Too cheap to buy them, but I did put up 48 pints of pear sauce and 21 half-pints of pear butter the other day. Still haven't made the grape jam yet.

Oh, and the bread. I made six loaves last night with my trusty Bosch Universal as well as cooking Sunday supper.

.....Alan.

I dont call myself a hermit for nothing. The only trouble I have found living alone is that my housekeeping standards get lower and lower each year until I start reminding myself of one of those old grizzled prospectors living in a shack in desert eating beans out of a can in the movies. Or of Pa Kettle if he lived alone.

At this point in my life, I am so set in my ways, cant imagine ever living with another human being, nor another human being wanting to live with me. The cats dont seem to mind though......

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"What would you do with a brain if you had one?" -Dorothy

"Well, then ignore what I have to say and go with what works for you." -Eliot Coleman

I agree about being single except that there are some ladies out there that can talk about more than Oprah and the latest soap rag or program. Its would be nice to share a vision and discuss different out comes and ways of attack. Plus there are those times you would REALLY REALLY like to share your successes. Its tough when your 61 and dont have to take a blue pill. there are some of us that still have the opposite probem

What's really bad is I'm married and I still do a lot of the stuff myself anyways or hire it done. My wife knows how to sew but if I need a clothing article mended I hire it out to a lady from my church cause I know it will get done a lot faster then if I wait on my wife. Or it will get done right then if I do it myself by having the lady from my church to do it.

My wife didn't grow up this way but I did and it just doesn't work out.

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r.h. in oklahoma

Raised a country boy, and will die a country boy.

I'm one of those fellas going it alone. Aside from working a full time job, sometimes along with a part time job, I take care of the critters, the gardens, the outside and inside of my place, the finances, the shopping, the laundry, and the kids when they are with me. Heck, I can cook and bake from scratch, can what I grow, make jams, jellies, applesauce, pasta sauce...did I mention sew, OK more like mend, and make homemade bread.

Yep, I can do all that more...or at least try. Sometimes the loaves of bread could double as bricks. Suppose it comes down to taking your best shot. It may not always come out like I planned but I get an 'A" for effort. That said, have to say that I have lots of respect for all the homesteaders, men and women alike, who at least give it a go. I don't think it's about what you can or can not do, it's more about your willingness to try.

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CJ

Wow, you guys are awesome. I never knew there were so many men that could do all that stuff. More power to ya.

Thanks Guys
I too can cook(very Good from what I am Told), wash clothes, clean if needed(lol), make bread, canned over 300 jars and filled two freezers last year from the garden by myself. I can also sew, made my X more than one dress. I am very independant. I grow my own corn and grind it for my animals, build my own buildings, saw my own boards(with my sawmill)-----------I said all this to SAY this----------Even though I don't Need a Woman in My Life-------I LOVE having a Good one to Share time and everything else with. The one I am Dating now helps me So Much. She loves to feed the animals, work in the garden, she Cooks for me all the time and I cook for "US" a fair amount!!
I wanted to say to ALL of you that Works 40hrs or more per week and Keep up the Farm------I know you have Your Hands Full!!! There is No Way I could Work 40+ hrs per week and Do everything I do now on the farm---No Way---Guess I got to much going on---I do work part-time about 20hrs per week and sell at the Flea Market on Sundays + my Wednesdays are tied up going to 2 different Auctions--Looking for things to re-sale.

Are there some of you guys that just live off can food and paper plates with No Desire to learn to cook, raise animals, garden, etc??