tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188198933297385827.post1539035509145707426..comments2012-01-13T06:35:02.312-06:00Comments on Self Sustained Living: Nasty surprisemmpaintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05626939370845488942noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188198933297385827.post-29063838778577367422012-01-13T06:35:02.312-06:002012-01-13T06:35:02.312-06:00Someday, someday, I will have a few goats. And I h...Someday, someday, I will have a few goats. And I hope to make cheese like that too!!Anonymous Homesteaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020243102357714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188198933297385827.post-91170016930895932502012-01-12T20:27:29.548-06:002012-01-12T20:27:29.548-06:00That is a great testimony to change in location an...That is a great testimony to change in location and friends being the key to changing teens. The location and friends were amazing teachers for you. Every teen should be so lucky.Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188198933297385827.post-26931538733076036162012-01-12T18:15:38.951-06:002012-01-12T18:15:38.951-06:00in 1967 i was a troubled teenager sent to her gran...in 1967 i was a troubled teenager sent to her grandmother for the summer...good country air, and very little trouble to get into. anyway, across the road from my grandmas house was a large farm that just happened to have a girl and a boy my age..we made friends pretty quickly and grandma knew i was okay and behaving myself. the mother of my new friends did everything the old way...wood stove, water pump, treadle sew.machine, outhouse, etc...anyway that summer, l learned alot...i soaked up knowledge of being self reliant like a sponge soaks up water. i even learned to sterilize jars and canning food from the garden over an open fire in their backyard. this lady is dead and buried now, but i think of her and her ways every day and try to do the same....especially over the last five years or so. i think that part of the problem with folks wanting to be self reliant these days is they have no one to teach them the ways...and then of course there are those folks who turn up their noses and think that sorta life is stoneage living...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com