Hey, you old hippies! What ever happened to "Rippling Waters", "two cats in the yard", and "feedin' your children on peaches"?
i followed my dreams ..........i was born here but raised in the states ..moved back to canada and like most of the people ended up in the city ...toronto to be exact ...chased my tail for a few years and got tired of the rat race ........i moved back to the town i was born in in 1979 ........built a house on the outskirts of town and raised a family ......it's an idealic setting ........small french village on the east coast of canada ..atlantic ocean 3 miles away ...meaning fresh seafood here means it's still alive ......a trip to the town store can take you 2 hours because you stop and talk with all the town folks ........locks on the doors because they came with the doors but i don't know where the keys are ........minimal government interference in my affairs,enough time off to stop and actually think ..no noise and pollution .......where you can raise a family without worrying too much about who they hang out with cause you know them and their parents and probably their grandparents too .........and to sum it all up .......IT WAS WELL WORTH IT
and what happens to kids raised in such a backwards town..?? well my oldest is a machinist and works 5 miles from here for a firetruck manufacturer ...second son is a pilot and flies the high arctic ,day before yesterday he flew to greenland .......and my youngest son is finishing his 3rd year of mechanical engineering at the university .isolation does not mean missed opportunities .......only a saner lifestyle
Wow! Got a spare room? You seem to have acquired you dream. I chase mine on a day-to-day basis. I've been through so many big changes in my life that it would take several volumes to put it all down on paper. I've hitch-hiked around the world twice and I've even been on the "Marrakech express". I live 10 minutes from the sea also, down in the southern end of Sweden, just across the new bridge to Copenhagen. At the moment I'm waiting for the end of June when my sweetheart from Slovakia will be coming up to Sweden (with her 12-year-old daughter) and moving in together with me. I'll be 59 next month and I ought to have my head examined ..... but what the hell. I can take it if she can!
hope all goes well with you and your sweetheart and daughter ,,,,,,,,i had an uncle from copenhagan .he is long past away now .....married my aunt during the war .......one place i have always wanted to visit .that and the scandanavian countries .....your weather there must be about like ours ...pleasant in the summer but cold as hell in the winter ......as for traveling i have never been overseas but have been all across canada and in a lot of the united states and into central america .one nice thing about being older ..more experience
Thank you for your good wishes! I’m divorced and I have two teenaged boys. I’ve been living alone for so many years that it will be interesting to see how this new life is going to work out. And a daughter this time ……… God help me! Yes. “one thing nice about being older…” Now maybe you have more time to do some of things you didn’t get around to doing earlier. You can still go to Denmark. And Sweden’s just across the bridge!
Living on an acre of land, in an old house, which we fixed up the way we wanted. Four kids, all Attachment Parented, extended breastfed, and young hippys, we grow some f our own food, on our acre, organic only. My dh has a "straight" job. Needs to feed everybody and buy what we don't grow. (And last year was awful, with no rain, and lots of bugs, so we would have starved) but I am self employed helping mamas nurse their babies. Yeah, we have the requesite beaded doorway, a peace sign flag on our flagpole, tye dye beadspreads on the kid's beds, ect. DH is a woodworker, makes no money at it, but wins the County Fair Entry for it every year. He's even made some of our furniture. I wish he could do that full time. He'd be happier. Maybe when we have fewer kids in college (next year we'll have our oldest two in college, one in High School, and the baby in 1st (or second) grade.) Despite that, I drive a minivan (gotta have something to haul all those kid's asses to and fro in, (ow bad english) we do have to buy a lot of our food (sheesh, spent $190.00 at Whole Foods on Friday.) We most likely watch too much TV, but we are working on that. We looked into ways of getting off the power grid, but haven't gotten too far. We do have our own septic system and private well, so that belongs to us. (Septic backed up last week, lovely smell. Not to mention having to pump it out and root out the line. BLEH!) No sidewalks where we live, rural mail delivery, we are unincorporated, so we have to pay for library services (A must) at the closest library, but we have garbage pick up, like most people. Nights on our land are nice. A firepit and good freinds. We are surrounded by woods, so we have our privacy (found our house on GoogleEarth and it was so wooded we couldn't see anything but the roof and the pool.) (Pool came with the house, probably taking it down next year. It's a pain.) We are hoping to buy a larger piece of land and built a log home, sometime in the near future. Once you've lived on an acre or more and done what you like, you can't go back to the City. That, below, is a picture of our baby, Sage, in our garden. (She was about 3 or 4 here, she is 6 now.)
MaggieSugar--I love that photo of your grandchild running through the garden. It is a "keeper". Best to you, love. And, your's, too Thudly.
Thank you, but Sage is MY child. She's the "caboose" My first baby was born in 1986, then two more then Sage at the end of 1999. Thanks for the compliment, though, she's a beautiful child.
amen to not going back to the city .......though i'm not sure if i would build a log cabin again ..especially in cold climates like here ......it was a good idea at the time .....the cedar logs came from the property and had them sawed at a local mill but i should have left them season a couple of years before using them .......i had them squared and i built but over the years shrinkage got into them as they dried and every year i had to chink some more to keep out the drafts ...finally i covered them up with styrofoam insulation and put siding over the whole thing .......way warmer in the winter now ..................this year i am planning on putting in a big garden here too ....never needed it before because my mother,who lives not that far from here ,had a garden big enough to feed a small town ........but like me ,my parents are starting to age ..she's 78 and my dad is 80
Ah, Maggie Sugar-- isn't she sweet and pretty ! Don't you wish she could stay that innocent forever? They can't-- my oldest granddaughter is only 5, and she's beginning to lose her innocence-- probably because of television-- and it breaks my-already-broken heart. And, there is nothing I can do. THAT, truly hurts.
how bout found a happy medium for the time being,,, work in babble-on n have the dream to continue workin for.... as i sit here typing ...watching the dogs goin nuts for some unknown reason,,, drinkin coffee, watchin the bucks (goats) nibblin on there hay and beatin each other up,,,, wind whipping yet looks beautiful out me thinkin its gotta stop so i can be out doing some of the neverending list of chores that have to get done since i am not in babble on today....
Hey, mojorising, may I stay at your ocean property for a few days? I'll pay rent, of course, but I want to club baby fur seals and harpoon dolphins--maybe chainsaw a few beached whales. Cool, or not? We'll split the meat, dude!
I only seen one beached whale since i been here,And it came in dead....Have no seals or dolphins.....
