Introducing FarmsteadSmith!

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Hello Steemers!
I'm Adrienne of FarmsteadSmith! IMG_9108.PNG

My husband is @smitty. We're a younger couple who got their hands on 20 acres situated in the Crooked River Natuonal Grasslands. We just got the property in Dec. 2016 and are slowly trying to build up our Farmstead!

Currently, it's the two of us, one dog, two rabbits, 21 chickens, three goslings and four (hopefully soon to be eight) ducklings. In my terminology, the goslings and ducklings will be henceforth replaced with "Gucklings". We are planning to still add quail and maybe turkey this year, bees are also on the soon to be added list!

The purpose of this account will be to share with you our adventures with farmsteading. I promise we will even share with you mistakes we've made! Let me tell you, there's quite the list already.

Anyway, my husband and I have had a very adventurous first 5 years of our marriage. He was in the military and because of the military we have lived in South Korea and Germany. We just returned from Germany back to Oregon in 2015 and are now a veteran family.

Now that we're back in the states and own a nice piece of land our goal is to try and head toward the self sustaining model of life and do what we can to provide for ourselves. In the future we hope to add ruminants to the property for sure, but that might be a little ways off while we build up the infrastructure of the property.

So hold onto your hats cause this is bound to be a bumpy ride!

I am open to any questions you may have! Please feel free to ask and I'll answer as best I can.

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I live off grid, and solo, on 17 acres in western NC in the Blue Ridge. Got mine in 2014 or so. Looking forward to swapping some tales. Welcome to steemit! I like to follow people all over the world, of all different ages. I read introduction posts and follow people who seem legit and real! You totally seem interesting! Following you to learn more about the world you live in and how you see it from your local perspective! I hope you will check out my posts too now and then!- @sircork

Cool, good to know you are off grid. We just bought some land last week to get setup.

And so it begins for you! Good luck!

I am in Blue Ridge also! North Georgia. We've only got a little over 5 acres so far, but gotta start somewhere!! You are living my dream :)

The "dream" has it's pros and cons, and ups and downs :) Good luck! Thanks for reading!

Thank you for finding me! I am real. We are new. And we've made a few mistakes already! Haha

I saw one popular guy, I guess he takes a pic of himself every post or something? I read about that sort of thing in the guide deal and thought it was really interesting. Never heard of doing that before.

Funny, my husband is an IT guy also! I can't wait to go check out your posts! Probably tomorrow tough. I really should sleep but... well, this is new! Ha

Thanks for stopping by!

Uh, you too, man! Don't use all your power for the middle of the night over there on the other side of the US!

Only a homesteader would say that LOL Actually, I also own a two story office building on the main street of my town. I work here pretty much 24 hours a day, with trips home and naps at either place, its only 4 miles from my land.

Ps. I just noticed that my reply to you said "I am earl". Please don't call me ear, haha I've edited to what it was supposed to say REAL. Hahaha SEE, sleep. Night!!

Changed the earl in your post, just don't forget to change the earl in your truck too! Night!

Hahah! Well that's good it's nice and close. I was gonna ask a bunch of questions about what you've got going on your homestead and how you make time for it, but I should just head over to yours and check it out before I'm redundant! :)

We'll get there all in good time!

More proof that I'm real...

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Scratching my head how you managed to post from the old account about the error and the new account? lol - and no, I won't use apple product, so I couldn't have told you how that worked in the slightest hehe. I'm an anti-apple anti-fanboi and have been since the 80s. At least I am consistent. I'll come follow your new tag now :)

You can still sign in with your posting key thing. The first one in your wallet. But without the master super special key that they TELL YOU NOT TO DAMN WELL LOSE... you can't transfer monies or anything. As is my understanding anyway... Search for some lost password posts. Golly... can't sign in to see the master pass thing without the super special pass. Thank you for hopping over!

Don't worry. I work in tech - I saved mine 57 ways the first day :)

Followed!!!!!!!! Love your bio that pops up on your profile

See how easy this is? :D I've followed you right on back! Thanks for the compliment!

I will be heading to 2 events this week at the local ARC club / HAM radio stuff, this may interest you or find one in your area.

The field day is coming up in a few days and this week is the BBQ -- so many offgrid radios which I guess are kinda grid if you think about it.

http://www.nsarc.ca/

Thanks for letting me know. I have friends very into HAM, I was always just an internet guy myself. I would probably dig packet radio, if that is still a "thing" but in general, I can't afford another expensive hobby :) I already have pets, livestock, farming, offgrid gear, guns, cars, motorcycles, drag racing, skydiving and computer tech fetishes as it is to blow too much money on!

I did... until coyotes also haz been hadz...

Coyotes took out my entire flock in one day while I was away at work in another city all day.

I also had goats, two horses and a mule, but I've since sold them as well. Well not the mule. Sadly she escaped a pasture fence and was killed overnight by a truck that hit her in the dark. She was in someone else's pasture and it wasn't my fence. I sold the goats after Oliva had two still born twins I had to bury on christmas eve of 2015. Disheartend by that, I sold them to someone better equipped for goats than me, and she has had two happy successful birthings since, making 4 more babies that are doing great on their new farm. I have had great luck with gardens and miserable luck with livestock.

These were my goats and chickens...

Aw shoot, that is some sad luck and stories but you have learned so much and it is nice to see that, and that your goat has had some good luck since too!!!!

Thanks for sharing that.

Octavious does not care for the camera either like Olivia -- worse with food not around like you said hahahaha!

Our together time

LOL

How did the coyotes get in that pen? Was the power for the fence down or?

Welcome to steemit! Looking forward to read more from you!:)
I wish you the best! and hope to see you soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Hey there, this is FarmsteadSmith but on a different account as I have lost the main password for FarmsteadSmith. :( believe me I am super sad about it! If you haven't yet, please come in over and join me here! Would love to have you!

Welcome to Steemit Adrienne. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do. :-)

Thank you.
I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Ouch! Make sure you save on more than 1 place. Follow the other account now.

Thanks man! I did this time!!! SIGH glad you stuck with me!

Welcome to Steemit. I look forward to following your posts.

Hey there, this is FarmsteadSmith but on a different account as I have lost the main password for FarmsteadSmith. :( believe me I am super sad about it! If you haven't yet, please come in over and join me here! Would love to have you!

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Welcome to Steemit!
It's nice to have you join us here.

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

The more off gridders the better right?

LOL

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I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Hey there, this is FarmsteadSmith but on a different account as I have lost the main password for FarmsteadSmith. :( believe me I am super sad about it! If you haven't yet, please come in over and join me here! Would love to have you!

Welcome! I look forward to your posts!

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

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Good Luck

I have made a huge mistake and fat finger pasted over and deleted my super special password for this account. :( And no, unfortunately my browser did not save the password.

If you are still interested in following my mishaps... please head to @farmstead.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and comment. I apologize for being a super lame newb and making such a fatal error. I hope at some point I can delete this account or something.

PS. Did you know you could shake your iPhone to undo in the notes app? I didn't, until it was too late. RIP

Hey there, this is FarmsteadSmith but on a different account as I have lost the main password for FarmsteadSmith. :( believe me I am super sad about it! If you haven't yet, please come in over and join me here! Would love to have you!