#Farming Lifestyle

[emsalx]

blueberry fields forever

26 feb 2023 

[agrarian-pleasures]

Summertime is for making hay! Good start yesterday.

(Note the wide brimmed hat to protect my ears from the sun...:wink:)

[jansen-dean]

My Grandpa Drue with his hound dogs

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[sadclowncentral]

I'm new here but very curious about your upbringing being spent more on the sea than on land!! how did that come about?

my dad is a captain and my grandfather owned a sailing school, so my first sailing trip was when i was one month old! my dad just used to hang me from the ceiling while steering the ship while i slept, rocked by the waves. this has given me the superpower of never having been motion sick in my life - you have to start early, i guess.

when my brother and me were little, we spent almost all our summers and autumns sailing on the baltic sea with my grandfather's students. these summers are some of my most treasured memories, sitting on the jib with my cousins and watching the baltic islands pass by. i always loved numbers and graphs so my dad taught me traditional navigation, and i have been yelling at grown men telling them to go where i want them to while waving a compass at them since i was eight, which i think really shines some light on adult me's authority issues.

we still go sailing every summer, but on a smaller boat, and it's very often just my immediate family or my brother and me sailing up to denmark or sweden for a few days. my brother is studying to be a captain and uses our excursions for navigation practice, so i have now become the grown man steering the ship getting yelled at and threatened with a sextant, so it all comes back around.

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[everlastinghistory]

[marieandersoneq]

[goddessflorasparks]

I’m Back!!

I got kicked off tumblr 9 months ago and i didn't know why! I appealed and finally heard back a few days ago. Turns out I was kicked off for no reason!

I have done my best to follow all the rules here so I was absolutely devastated. I really liked the people I met and I enjoyed the image forward content sharing and my liked photos were full of inspiration for new shoots. It knocked a little enthusiasm out of me honestly :(

Sadly, my really well flushed out queue has disappeared. It’s gonna take me a little while to get back to a regular post rhythm to this.

In the meantime here’s a picture of me dealing with what I called “The Plum Emergency”. During a heat wave in California my plum tree produced more than it’s ever produced ever ever ever. I bought a steam juicer and set up shop in the backyard. I put up 20 gallons of plum juice (heat canned for shelf stable storage), about 20 pounds of plums for later in the freezer, made ungodly amounts of fruit leather (if you have made it, you know it’s very, very time-consuming), made some jelly and some pate de fruit!

its been about 3 weeks of feeling like I live in a plum processing plant 😂 Saturday I put away the final bit of plums and now I’m slowly decommissioning my factory for the year. I’m gonna take a break for a few months, but I’ll start making jelly and earnest for Christmas gifts in November :-)

anyway hi again!!!

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[nadziejacher]

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[histhoughtslately]

This view…

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[ryanscabinlife]

Slowly processing your harvest outside on a beautiful sunny day and listening to chill music is probably one of my favourite sensations, all I was missing was a glass of really cold iced tea. It reminded me why I chose to live a slower and simpler life. Such a feel-good moment. Also, it's very validating to find more use for my d.i.y. crap.

24-Jul-2023

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