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The forth generation: The stories continue...
In todays world life is hectic and people move, often to much. It's sort of a way of the world. But some of us are blessed with a long family history in one place. My family in the south can say there have been 7 generations that have lived in one home and often been born there. In my family up here in the north it has…
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Boring Country life: Part Two- A Cats Life - The other side of the story - TGN Story Time
If you missed the first part of the story, here is the link: https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/847562/boring-country-life-part-one-a-cats-life-tgn-story-time#latest Greetings and salutations. Little Man I feel its only appropriate to present my side of the story. And in all fairness, my caretaker did a fair…
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Welcome to the Old-Fashioned Story Hour 📻
We want to hear your stories, in your own words. We know that we have great story telling members on TGN that are hiding in their beautiful gardens or in lush forests! Considering, we are making a dedicated space available on our forum to build an audio collection of our member's unique stories from around the world. Our…
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The Coffee Cup Trail
One of my favorite parts of a day is to walk the gardens in the morning. I check for new growth, any gardening issues and just enjoy the sun peeking up over the hill and the fog rolling off the creek. As with any morning walk my coffee cup goes with me to take the chill off the morning fog or dew. What a beautiful relaxing…
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The unexpected love affair
As many of you know I have the one rescued rabbit. I was very hesitant to take it as I was not sure what was all wrong with it and if it could cause health issues with any of my other animals. But here she is and at this point living in the house. At first I had her in a small cage but she did much better with more…
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Gardening is my quiet time or is it? Story
Gardening is my quiet time. A time to reflect, enjoy nature and have peace. Most of the time. My one garden was behind the barn, away from the road and anyone disturbing me. My garden was huge one year and took a lot of my time. To enjoy my breaks I had a comfortable lawn chair recliner, an umbrella and an ice chest with…
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Herbs that affect the brain/ cognition
Hello Everyone, I am trying to pick a topic for a project for my Psychology class. My question is are there any herbs that affect the brain and/or cognition?
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Gone fishing - One of those Country adventures (humor)
It was one of those typical days in NW PA. Warm, sunny, semi peaceful and well: normal. My brothers one friend showed up and saw quite a bit of activity down by the creek. I was running off at full speed to the barn and came back dragging chains. Kevin got that look on his face and approached the creek edge cautiously. He…
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Those Easter Memories, the good and the unusual
I grew up in the era where you always dressed up for Easter Sunday. New bonnet, dress and shoes. Although I was a tom boy I loved Easter Sunday. My brothers and I always had the "cool" look before it was cool. And later I missed those Easter Sunday morning events. But the memories and photos remain I remember one Easter in…
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Neighborhood Comedy Stories
My neighbors down the road were fun comical people who I loved dearly. They did not live in the small camp long, maybe eight years. They had been city folk, who loved to camp, but living in the country along a creek was a different kind of living. We helped them as much as we could and you never knew exactly what to expect…
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New Addiction Discovered --- Tea
I was just organizing my pantry again and came to a disturbing realization: I am addicted to drinking tea. There are at least a dozen caffeinated types such as Pur-Eh, black, Earl Grey, green, green blends, Yerba Mate, etc. (These are my lunch drinks.) There are at least two dozen types of herbal teas of single and herbal…
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Call me in twenty minutes
I went out to do emergency rabbit pen work today. We had freezing rain the other day, an inch! I looked at my rabbit shed/pen yesterday and noticed the ice had built up and caught water and froze. I could tell it could pull down my roof so my project for the next morning was Operation Rabbit Pen Rescue. This is the pen…
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Dog stories
@Annie Kate and her wonderful story of Rex and how pets touch our lives and leave behind those amazing stories and a piece of their heart reminded me of all the past dogs we have had. So many dogs, but all leave a memory and some you could write books about. I lost my Annie this fall. She developed Diabetes in early July…
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Fighting chicken boredom
We are finally getting a long cold snap. Luckily we are going to miss the snow dump but I think its 6 days of cold. My chickens have become spoiled this winter so I figured I need to go the extra mile to keep them happy. All outdoor animals have been deep mulched to hold in warmth. Waterers have been filled and placed in a…
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Funny Farm Life Stories & Funny Stories
There was talk back a few weeks ago of a book for funny stories of farm life. I do plan on doing one myself sometime but I also asked some of the admins about the possibility of having a "funny Stories" book here with submissions from everyone here who would like to participate. Most of us have stories or know a neighbor…
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OMG- For Your Entertainment
Didn’t I recently read through a thread where people shared their escaped cow stories? I didn’t plan on joining in the fun. Last night my husband disappeared for a few hours and ran in finally right before it started pouring rain. He’d been out chasing cows and we were down 2. Spent a couple hours searching this morning in…
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I was a Five Hour Cattle Farmer
On our small ranchette we have had most animals at one time or another, but never cows, until... My mother and I went shopping one day, It was one of those hot airless days and we were both looking forward to a cold tall glass of ice tea. As my mother pulled in to the lower drive I burst into laughter and tears. I was…
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Rural life - Boring?
When I had my one career I lived in cities. I walked away from that one job and returned to the country. My work related friends would ask, "How can you live in the country - its boring." Boring? If I told half the stories of what happened around here they would lock up. My one rooster one spring went from nice to total…
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"Houdini" has pulled it off again. 😲
Cigar has once again escaped his stall. This is his new one with the heavier door. Actually, Carol thinks that a human was not very careful in making sure the door was totally closed and latched. When you're a big Quarter Horse gelding weighing between 1,100 and 1,200 lbs.; if you can get your nose and neck through the…
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Animal Intelligence, What have you observed?
Garden Mouser - Who says animals do not use tools. A few days ago, after catching a mouse (such a good putty) my cat ran over and placed it into my Croc shoe. She then began toying with the poor mouse releasing & returning it to her Croc cage several times before it became a meal. Not long ago, I first noticed the use of…
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FOR FUN VIDEO THREAD
Now, it was suggested that we need a thread for funny videos. It is good to keep things light even in stressful times. Feel free to post these below. This is for those particular videos that stand out over & above the rest. Please use discretion. Two things that I am requesting: 1. I think that we should keep these videos…
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Have you ever had one of THOSE animals?
You know the kind, they can open any gate, any feed box, any latch, they get out of any fence, barn, holding pen. You name it, they can and will be on the other side when you come back. Well we have Mary, well her real name is Mary had a Little (not so little any more) Lamb. Named by our 2 yrs granddaughter This will be…
