RE: [CHICKENS-101] Re: dogs, farming and neighbors ( My Take and 2 cents )

 

 

            I was a Navy brat and born in Sunnyvale---then moved to Florida (Sanford, then Jacksonville) then we moved back to CA when I was 7 to San Diego…….Clairmont and then Pacific Beach.  My memories of southern CA are wonderful. Our own pomegranate tree, banana trees, fruit, etc.  We walked to school and to the ocean when we lived in Pacific Beach.  Our house (Military housing) was on a hill and we overlooked Mission Bay and could hear and see the races.  My memories of Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo……..trips to Tiajuana…….excellent times and I bragged about it to everyone I met when we were transferred to Southern Maryland when I was ten.  Those days were wonderful and CA living was wonderful.  We moved to MD in 1964 and I haven’t been back. 

 

            My sister lived in San Diego (Lakeside and Santee) before she moved out here to VA in April 2009.  Her description of San Diego was not the SD I remembered, at all!   Her son was raised in an entirely different SD than we were! 

 

            “Times are a’changing”………as Dylan so eloquently put it.  Times have to change ………population growth has to go somewhere –the land doesn’t expand.  Everything is so different.  I have to remind myself that the population of our country has increased so dramatically………..we are filling in every empty space we can.  The cities are more crowed, more crime, more costly………..and the suburbs are almost NOT sub URBAN………but becoming more city-like as well.  The “country” is having to catch the overflow and sadly, there are may urbanites who don’t get it.  They don’t appreciate the open spaces or all the other things that come with the country……..they want their convenience stores and traffic lights and everything PAVED.

 

            I hope our area doesn’t see dramatic growth for a long time.  I am hoping that the housing market will come back, but not at the rate it was and that people will buy their houses in the suburbs and be happy there.  Time will tell. 

 

            Our lives have changed dramatically since moving here –we got a phone call at 930 last night from a friend.  They shot another deer and did we want the carcass when they finished butchering it?  Hells yeah………..those deer have been an excellent source of raw food  and rmbs for our dogs.  I think this will be the 5^th or 6^th this year.  Saves money!  Even better, it means that deer’s life is valued and it’s death wasn’t for naught. 

 

            Btw, I am 57…………so no spring chicken, either.  I like to think I still have a young attitude about some things………raising kids late in life has kept me abreast of some current events that many my age wouldn’t worry about. 

 

            Like you, I wish the changes weren’t so IN OUR FACE……..and I agree, we either go with the flow and or get left behind. 

 

Laura

 

Laura Roberts

R Half Pint Farm

Spotsylvania, VA 

 

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From: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gina Hall
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:02 PM
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: dogs, farming and neighbors ( My Take and 2 cents )

 

 

Well folks, I was born and raised in Southern California and being that I am 70 that was a long time ago. Things were wonderful then, sun and fresh air. Then as with anything, time changed everything. I would love to be able to go back to the California I knew as a child but that is gone. I was one of the original Valley girls, raised in Sherman Oaks but my husband and I and our three kids left there for the San Francisco area in 1962 because we wanted to give our kids a better chance at growing up well.
We left that area in 1968 due to my husbands job and I am now in Seattle.
I miss those early days terribly but life goes on and change  has to take place. My own little town is changing daily, new folks are moving in and we are growing. I hate to see it happen, but life goes on and you have to just adjust or be miserable.
That is the way of things.
Gina :-)

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