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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 21 2008 : 05:58:22 AM
Hi, I'm new here in the MJ Outpost Dispatch, joined MJ's Connecntion a week ago, love it. I'm enjoying reading all the adventures you all are doing.
Well I have been on our 20 acre homestead going on 29 yrs w/ DH. Oh we have camped out at our campsite in a tent a few times , but its mostly been on float trips away from home.
It wasn't until I was looking at the magazine stand for more garden and how to books for inspiration when I found my first copy of Mary Janes Farm, it was new to our area. I wanted to read more of MJ so I went online and theres where I came across her Outpost on her farm. Well like many I'm hooked, i'm so hooked ,even getting MJ Outpost book.
I just had to put up an outpost of my own, which I did starting with an old dry rot screen tent in the front yarn. It was ok but there was more bugs in it then outside and I had to duct tape it everywhere.
Then the wanting got worst in a good way. Through MJ's reading I came across the Sisters On the Fly, OH their vintage trailers, Oh my. I wanted one of those little guys of my own. Had one at one time and stayed most the year in one.
Lo and behold within a week of wanting a vintage trailer my sister gave me her popup trailer, its not like one of those tear drops or Shatas but you can hitch it to your truck and off you go, lol.
Well we took it up to our camesite and now there it will stay for my Outpost. It has had a long history of travel so I think it will come to a rest here on the homestead and make a new kind of history . Plans for staying every weekend, and in the winter when it snows to, if I don't weekin out.
Its set up with vintage chairs and a firepit for some good cookin and always coffee.
I call it the Outpost, Inspired by Mary Jane's Outpost. I'm keeping an online journal of my outings and a hard copy as well with sketches. Hopes of geting back to watercolors while having quiet times sitting by the campfire. It over looks the pond where critters come up for a drink and play in the water.
Come for a visit,have a cup of cowboy coffee and sit a spell.
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/walkabout/
Thanks for all you outpost shares,I just keep getting better ideas all the time from them.
Jen I so love your blog and all the information and inspiration you give, thank you 
tc linda
Locust Trail Homestead
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 4:00:59 PM
Thanks Jen.
I don't think it was the same horse b/c this happen many years ago, and we didn't get any support from the conservation. We were pretty much in the sticks and on our own to deal with what ever came along.
Now about 6 or 7 years ago thats when our pigmy goats , turkeys and doves were taken out by a cougar.
Sighting of a mom cougar and her kits have been spotted last year and then just back in the early part of this year aother sighting about a half a mile from here. I was planning to get Alpacas but was to worried about the same thing happening to them as our other livestock.
Also a black panther has been spotted to. I was fishing and seen a big black something jump out of a tree from a distance by my aunts lake. I could not make it out, but then later I heard of sightings of a black panther.
I would so love to see a black bear. You live in some beautiful country and I would not be surprised if you don't have cougar. Keep a look out.
tc linda
Locust Trail Homestead
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| Jen |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 11:20:10 AM
Cute chuckwagon, Linda! You are an inspiration for sure. You've seen cougars?! I'm so thrilled to hear that. My sis, who lives near Hallsville, told me she'd heard about someone's horse being scratched up by one -- wonder if that was yours?? The conservation dept (MDC) is so reticent about confirming breeding populations within the state, which I guess I understand, but I think it's pretty obvious they're there -- I say, welcome home! We don't seem to have them around here (very northern AR), which is strange to me. We've got bears, especially just south of us in the nat'l forest, but I haven't seen any sign yet.
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 2:41:40 PM
Thank you Mountain Girl. You know you really don't need the wagon wheels. It could be called an outdoor hutch, pantry or something on those lines. You could cute it up and your weather boards would look great.
If you want wheels try looking around salvage yards, where old farm equipment might be. Or antique shops that are not busy , real junky looking and don't hold on their old stuff with high prices.
Another type of wheel you could use is the wooden round parts of those big eletric spools. We use to get them free and make tables for the picnic area. They weather good and last a good time.
Can't wait to see what you come up with.
Happy Outposting
tc linda
Locust Trail Homestead
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| Mountain Girl |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 12:43:58 PM
Linda Ellen I love it! I want one! You are very talented. I have been wanting something like that for our firepit area. I have access to weathered boards but not the wagon wheels. JoAnn
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 08:33:03 AM
Hey everyone, thanks for all the nice comments. Been camping this last weekend, with lots of projects. I'm havin way to much fun.
HuckleberryWine, on those critters. We have deer that I never get tired of seeing, well really any type of critter is fun to spot. Red fox, come around. One year I had to chase a fox with my only rooster in its mouth He had me running in circles in my garden with my arms a flappin. He let go of the roo and ran in the woods. Ol Gimp was the name of the rooster after that, just was never the same.
We have cougar, and I have been up close ,about 15 ft a couple of times to them which I just froze. Had some of our animals killed by them and a horse scratched on its backside.
Oh but those cougars are beautiful creatures, oh my.
The Outpost sits above an old pond, and thats where I was able observe a mama raccoon and her little kits, she didn't smell or see me for some time , so watching her look around in her protective mode with her paws in the water looking for crawdads and the kits playing and checking out mom and seraching the bank for food. It was fun to watch, but dang it I didn't have my camera.
We have rattle snakes, I have not seen on the homestead yet, but they are in the area. I have a 13 and half button skin of a rattler in the freezer. We were jeep riding on the country roads we seen a cat, (kitty cat) dragging this live rattler across the road. It was being done in by the cat. So DH finished it off by cutting its head off with a screw driver,:P. We flopped it on the jeeps hood and I skinned it when we got back home. The Cat was not happy we took its hunt.
Ane then we got all the other kind of critters that most everyone has in the country and city, rabbits, squirrel, etc.
I'm still looking for black bear, we have them up north and down south of us , so why not in the middle?
This weekend I put up a chuckwagon using some old wagon wheels. its rough but is so handy up at the outpost.
If you got some time stop by my other blog , theres more pictures of the chuckwagon.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-IREskSwmeqqunPcTcV_hshP7jmCxDuo-?cq=1
All have a great week, going to get me a some ice tea and read some post before I had out to the garden.
tc linda
Locust Trail Homestead
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/walkabout/ |
| Jen |
Posted - Aug 24 2008 : 11:03:41 AM
It's a perfect Outpost, Linda! I think the neatest part about MJ's inspiration is that her ideas can be tailored to our own lives & surroundings. Wonderful!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Elizaray |
Posted - Aug 23 2008 : 7:34:10 PM
I love it! It looks very restful!
Elizaray |
| HuckleberryWine |
Posted - Aug 23 2008 : 08:57:31 AM
It's darling! I can just see it full of happy folks visiting and having biscuits and your good coffee, watching the critters come by. What kinds of animals visit you? |
| city chick |
Posted - Aug 23 2008 : 05:48:55 AM
I love your outpost! Wish we had some land where we could leave our pop-up up all the time. I know my girls would love that.
We just put up our old tent for them last week. Not so sure the cat is enjoying his time in there... but the girls sure are.
Would love to join you for a cup of coffee around the campfire!
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Aug 22 2008 : 08:59:05 AM
Thank you Traci,
I might be camping in the rain this weekend. The sound of rain on the tent roof will be nice, just hope it doesn't leak :0
Going to butcher out a young rooster and cook'em on the firepit.
Grab a cup of coffee/tea on your next visit
tc linda
Locust Trail Homestead
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/walkabout/ |
| June Bug |
Posted - Aug 21 2008 : 08:05:32 AM
Welcome Linda! What a neat little outpost you have created! Look forward to hearing more about your adventures!
Traci |
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