Comments on: Doing Jobs The Old Way http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/ The thoughts and journal of a Christian farm family. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Northern Farmer Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:52:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-335 JM, I can see some dandy times coming when you do get back! Tom JM,
I can see some dandy times coming when you do get back!

Tom

]]> By: JM http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-334 JM Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:31:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-334 Tom, Thank you for sharing your experiences. It is encouraging to know of like minded folks rin Minnesota. When I left there 20 years ago, I wasn't thinking like I am now. So I didn't know people as you have described. Now I can't wait to get back! JM Tom,

Thank you for sharing your experiences. It is encouraging to know of like minded folks rin Minnesota. When I left there 20 years ago, I wasn’t thinking like I am now. So I didn’t know people as you have described. Now I can’t wait to get back!

JM

]]> By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Northern Farmer Thu, 24 Nov 2005 03:34:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-333 Peggy, Same to you and yours, and a big thankyou to your son in law Brian! Tom Peggy,
Same to you and yours, and a big thankyou to your son in law Brian!

Tom

]]> By: Peggy http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Peggy Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:07:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-332 Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

]]> By: Northern Farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Northern Farmer Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:45:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-331 Mike, Scott,Peggy, It always gets me exited finding like minded folk and it sure does make me happy when the Lord makes our paths cross. And Scott, the other evening the wife was wondering what I was laughing at while reading Foxfire 3, I think. Well, this oldtimer was telling about driving his ox team to town pulling a wagon of corn or something to sell there. Aways from home a bit the team decided to just stop and that's all they were going to do for the day, this guy had some problems before with this team. Well, some good old backwoods sense solved the problem, he gathered up some dry deads leaves and sticks and set them by the ox's butts. They were laying down not wanting to go, not a care in the world. So he started the stuff on fire and in a bit them oxen got up and ran all the way to town, with a short break in the creek they were crossing to cool their behinds. You won't find that trick in a modern teamster manual! And Peggy, You got yourself in trouble now, now that I know where you grew up :) If you were that close to Rabun Gap you really were right there. I have Foxfire 1 and 2 for the last 25 years or so, but am reading 3 and 4 now from the library, and will go on from there. This next year I'll try and get the whole set, because there isn't any homestead manual that even comes close to the practical wisdom that's in these books. Mike, Scott,Peggy,
It always gets me exited finding like minded folk and it sure does make me happy when the Lord makes our paths cross.
And Scott, the other evening the wife was wondering what I was laughing at while reading Foxfire 3, I think. Well, this oldtimer was telling about driving his ox team to town pulling a wagon of corn or something to sell there. Aways from home a bit the team decided to just stop and that’s all they were going to do for the day, this guy had some problems before with this team. Well, some good old backwoods sense solved the problem, he gathered up some dry deads leaves and sticks and set them by the ox’s butts. They were laying down not wanting to go, not a care in the world. So he started the stuff on fire and in a bit them oxen got up and ran all the way to town, with a short break in the creek they were crossing to cool their behinds. You won’t find that trick in a modern teamster manual!

And Peggy,
You got yourself in trouble now, now that I know where you grew up :) If you were that close to Rabun Gap you really were right there. I have Foxfire 1 and 2 for the last 25 years or so, but am reading 3 and 4 now from the library, and will go on from there. This next year I’ll try and get the whole set, because there isn’t any homestead manual that even comes close to the practical wisdom that’s in these books.

]]> By: Peggy http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Peggy Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:32:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-330 Sounds like you found the perfect church! We should all get back to helping each other and skipping the middle man. I love the Foxfire books and grew up in the NC mtns. where some of the people written about lived. And about 21 miles from Rabun Gap, Ga where some others wrote about lived/live. furman Arvey that lived in Otto, NC was a cousin to my dad. He was written about in Spring 1980 in Foxfire. I have the whole set of books that once belonged to my dad. Sounds like you found the perfect church! We should all get back to helping each other and skipping the middle man. I love the Foxfire books and grew up in the NC mtns. where some of the people written about lived. And about 21 miles from Rabun Gap, Ga where some others wrote about lived/live. furman Arvey that lived in Otto, NC was a cousin to my dad. He was written about in Spring 1980 in Foxfire. I have the whole set of books that once belonged to my dad.

]]> By: reformed farmer http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-329 reformed farmer Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:07:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-329 Hey Tom Sounds like you've found a good bunch of folks out there, Praise the Lord. I really miss community hog butchering. When I lived back in the flats, we would all get together and kill 8 or 9 hogs sometimes between milkings. Oh, and the foxfire books, I love them. Thats where Nate and I got the plans for our little whiskey still. Hey Tom

Sounds like you’ve found a good bunch of folks out there, Praise the Lord. I really miss community hog butchering. When I lived back in the flats, we would all get together and kill 8 or 9 hogs sometimes between milkings. Oh, and the foxfire books, I love them. Thats where Nate and I got the plans for our little whiskey still.

]]> By: TnFullQuiver http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/2005/11/21/doing-jobs-the-old-way/comment-page-1/#comment-328 TnFullQuiver Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:44:00 +0000 http://www.scepaniakfarms.com/blog/?p=99#comment-328 Sounds great Tom. It's exciting when God rewards our patience and perserverence. Our own community is similar, in that the neighbors all take care of each other and help out when you need it, though not all the farmers around here are in agreement about self sustainability or using older methods and techniques on the farm. But its better than the suburbia attitude and for that we are thankful. Mike Sounds great Tom. It’s exciting when God rewards our patience and perserverence.

Our own community is similar, in that the neighbors all take care of each other and help out when you need it, though not all the farmers around here are in agreement about self sustainability or using older methods and techniques on the farm. But its better than the suburbia attitude and for that we are thankful.

Mike

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