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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 03:21 AM Original message |
How many of you grew up on a farm? |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 03:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm one. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
40. That happens so much in my state too. |
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huskerlaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 03:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. Sorta, kinda |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. my husband did. |
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Lowell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
4. I grew up on the family farm in Ohio |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. I spent my early childhood on farms in Ohio, too |
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Lowell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. That's pretty area. |
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Omphaloskepsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
5. We had a couple hundred acres... |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. I had about forty pot plants behind my parent's house one time |
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Omphaloskepsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Not only does that count.. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
35. BWAAAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAAA |
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LynzM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
8. Briarius did.... |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Also sorta kinda.. |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. Not exactly. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
11. Alot of my friends were farmer's kids |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
12. In the general population I think it is less than 2% in ag. |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:40 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I think that's a misleading statistic |
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Kixel (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Hmm... |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
41. Is this southwestern MN or up by Fergus Falls? |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 02:09 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. I don't like blanket statements either, that is why I used the word "tend" |
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GumboYaYa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
13. A cotton farm outside of Newellton, Louisiana. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:22 AM Response to Reply #13 |
42. Field work is just so very hard. I only put in a week at it |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. Does it count that my dad did? |
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Christa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. On a farm in Africa |
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Silver Swan (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
17. I am a genuine farmer's daughter |
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Kickin_Donkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
29. I know how you feel ... |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:25 AM Response to Reply #17 |
43. We still own the farm. I guess my wife and her sisters feel |
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Dangerously Amused (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. I was born in a barn. |
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Kixel (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
19. Country Girl |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
21. I did for the first eight years. |
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LadyoftheRabbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'm living on one right now... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
26. I went to a farm once |
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Kickin_Donkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
27. I grew up on a farm and lived on it till a year ago ... |
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MnFats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
28. grew up in a farm town and worked on farms in high schooll |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:30 AM Response to Reply #28 |
44. My Uncle Knute (yes, I had an Uncle Knute) used to get up |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. WV dirt farmer |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
31. Raising my hand. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:12 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. That's an ideal kind of farm with that diversity! |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 12:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. It was like a boarding school. |
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yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
32. country girl. not a farming family but everybody else was. |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
33. I grew up in the city and moved to a farm. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
34. my grandparents lived on a farm in Minnesota |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
36. I was curious. I was a townie but used to bicycle out to |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:11 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. A good portion of the US population is still within one or two generations |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:48 AM Response to Original message |
38. Wheat farm |
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Jokerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
46. We worked my grandparent's farm |
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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
47. for a few years when I was around 11 years old |
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