Redneck Back on the Farm!!!!!

[RedneckDyke]

We have found a place to be! Working the land at someone else's place. We get housing. We don't own the land. But we get to live there. The guy who owns it has the facilities and the money and we have the labor, time, and knowledge. I guess what we are doing is modern day sharecropping or tenant farming. I guess a 21st century buzzword for "tenant farmer" could be "site-based horticultural and livestock management consultant"

I get to drive the ATV around to take feed to the goats and pigs. I have planted strawberries,maters,beans, melons, gourds, and squash. Driving the ATV kicks butt I love it!!!

Our new place is in northern PA. I love the summer climate. They said if it got over 90 it is a major heat wave. I will have to prepare for winter though. They have this weird thing called "snow" here.

I thought I would not fit in here. But there are just as many rednecks here as in the south. Lots of pickups and country music. No one seems to mind that I am technically from the "land of the enemy" But I don't think people up here pay as much attention to that. As Shelby Foote (God rest him) said "Southerners are very strange about that war."

Anyway I am just happy to have dirt under my feet again instead of concrete. also near our place is a place where you can get on the computers for a couple bucks an hour so I should be able to post more often.

hugs!!!!
REd

[Alecto]

It sounds like you've got a way to do what you love and live your life: YAY!
There's a reason some areas are referred to as "Pennsyl-tucky".

[Gennee]

I'm happy that you and your partner found somewhere you fell comfortable. I've been in northern PA in the winter. Brrrrr!!! Does get pretty cold. It's a damp cold that goes through your bones.

Gennee

[BrianB]

I'm glad you get to play in the dirt...even if it is northern dirt. You said northern Pennsylvania? Are you close to lake Erie or Ontario? You may become very good friends with your snow blower or snow shovel. The Great Lakes are snow machines. If a front blows across the lake you could easily get a foot of snow in the winter. Enjoy the summer. Winter won't be here for months.

There are a lot of transplanted rednecks here in Ohio. They came for the jobs back in the day. Now the jobs are leaving.