Visiting the countryside
"After they have taken up farming, many a
city man and his wife --- particularly his wife! --- have run the gamut
of emotions through all the descending scale of delight, gratification,
pleasure, surprise, perplexity, annoyance, disgust and exasperation (a
full octave!) to discover how popular they have become since moving to
the country. Not only do intimate friends drop in unannounced on
fine Sundays but less and less intimate ones even down to people who
just happened to live around the block arrive in auto loads and all
expect to remain for dinner, perhaps supper also!"
--- Maurice Grenville Kains in Five Acres and Independence
--- Maurice Grenville Kains in Five Acres and Independence
We don't have this
problem (except possibly during strawberry
week). Even
the hungriest city dweller is generally deterred by the alligator swamp.
Luckily, I'm becoming
better and better at tempting true friends to make the trek, bringing
me closer to my goal of never leaving the farm but still keeping in
touch. Heather is one of our favorite
visitors, and I totally lost track of time while chatting with her on
Saturday. (We both just thought it was getting cloudy...not dark.)
Thanks for coming,
Heather! And don't forget that guest post you promised me about
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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