Comments on: The Slanted Little House http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/ Life in Ordinary Splendor Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:24:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: stacy http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-63134 stacy Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-63134 :sheepjump: bRAVO! i WOULD LOVE TO JOIN YOU some day and let my children breathe! Until then....(I need to put on my big girl pants and grow up) I will live vicariously through you! You rock and I bet your children feel that way too!!!!!! I adore all your recipes and am watching my 18 year old peel oranges for marmalade! You really inspire us! I am anxiously awaiting a published cookbook for our family to enjoy!!!??????? Soon?? I hope!!! Take care and happy farming!!!! :sheepjump: bRAVO! i WOULD LOVE TO JOIN YOU some day and let my children breathe! Until then….(I need to put on my big girl pants and grow up) I will live vicariously through you! You rock and I bet your children feel that way too!!!!!!
I adore all your recipes and am watching my 18 year old peel oranges for marmalade! You really inspire us! I am anxiously awaiting a published cookbook for our family to enjoy!!!??????? Soon?? I hope!!! Take care and happy farming!!!!

]]> By: scorwin http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-63050 scorwin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:42:29 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-63050 I love this story. It was sentimental and honest and achingly real. It made me cry for lack of time( I'm 67), to do the same. I love this story. It was sentimental and honest and achingly real. It made me cry for lack of time( I’m 67), to do the same.

]]> By: Ellen http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-62664 Ellen Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:08:55 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-62664 :snoopy: Your life and life change seem a dream to me. As a child summer vacations spent on the farm of my father's best friend called to me like nothing else. My husband is a strict suburbanite for whom even camping is a horror. Thanks for giving me a glimpse of what may have been. :snoopy: Your life and life change seem a dream to me. As a child summer vacations spent on the farm of my father’s best friend called to me like nothing else. My husband is a strict suburbanite for whom even camping is a horror.

Thanks for giving me a glimpse of what may have been.

]]> By: Sara http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-60799 Sara Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:54:49 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-60799 Make me laugh and cry. I miss West Virginia. Wish my kids would have had the chance to grow up there. Make me laugh and cry. I miss West Virginia. Wish my kids would have had the chance to grow up there.

]]> By: Jessica B http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-60478 Jessica B Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:19:25 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-60478 Yes, I to live in the country with my chickens, dogs, cats, horses and 3 kids that think this is Gods country....I have to agree with them....It is! This is where real life lessons happen!!!! My neice and nephew live in Atlanta and think my kids are deprived. Oh how wrong they are :) Yes, I to live in the country with my chickens, dogs, cats, horses and 3 kids that think this is Gods country….I have to agree with them….It is! This is where real life lessons happen!!!! My neice and nephew live in Atlanta and think my kids are deprived. Oh how wrong they are :)

]]> By: Kathy Rose http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-59793 Kathy Rose Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:10:22 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-59793 What a beautiful sentiment about "coming home" from another West Virginia girl. What a beautiful sentiment about “coming home” from another West Virginia girl.

]]> By: mia http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-58741 mia Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:00:29 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-58741 Yup.. those are the reasons to move to the mountains. My dad has about 75 acres in Linn (near Glennville) with free natural gas. I plan to retire there in 5 years, 10 months and a few odd days, but who's counting. AT 74 he's trying to stay alive till i get there. He says he's got a few things still to teach me.. and does he ever!!! Of course, the plan was always to move their with the now ex mister (after 23 years) and now I plan to do it alone - although my mountain man dad (a true legend in hiw own time AND his own mind) tells me no woman can live there alone in them kind of mountains - I just said "watch me". Yup.. those are the reasons to move to the mountains. My dad has about 75 acres in Linn (near Glennville) with free natural gas. I plan to retire there in 5 years, 10 months and a few odd days, but who’s counting. AT 74 he’s trying to stay alive till i get there. He says he’s got a few things still to teach me.. and does he ever!!!

Of course, the plan was always to move their with the now ex mister (after 23 years) and now I plan to do it alone – although my mountain man dad (a true legend in hiw own time AND his own mind) tells me no woman can live there alone in them kind of mountains – I just said “watch me”.

]]> By: beth aka confusedhomemaker http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-58209 beth aka confusedhomemaker Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:26:49 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-58209 Wow, this is a beautiful post! My Hubby & I have been trying to figure out where to live next. Land is what is calling us, it's those wide open spaces to appreciate what's real that we can't shake. Different from what we once thought which was big city life, now we're in suburbia, but the dream of the land still calls. Wow, this is a beautiful post! My Hubby & I have been trying to figure out where to live next. Land is what is calling us, it’s those wide open spaces to appreciate what’s real that we can’t shake. Different from what we once thought which was big city life, now we’re in suburbia, but the dream of the land still calls.

]]> By: Andi http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-57743 Andi Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:03:35 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-57743 I grew up in rural Oklahoma...26 miles from the nearest town. I loved it. I never dreamed I would move away, but God had other things in store for me. I feel sorry for my kids that they will never experience the true farm upbringing that I had where everyone cares for everyone else, because everyone depends on each other to make it all work. Thanks for a beautiful story! I grew up in rural Oklahoma…26 miles from the nearest town. I loved it. I never dreamed I would move away, but God had other things in store for me. I feel sorry for my kids that they will never experience the true farm upbringing that I had where everyone cares for everyone else, because everyone depends on each other to make it all work. Thanks for a beautiful story!

]]> By: Tina http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-56726 Tina Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:31:22 +0000 http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-56726 Thankyou for sharing your city mouse country mouse journey! What a wonderful thing it will be to go back to the country when it is my turn. I enjoyed seeing it from your end of the pasture. Thankyou for sharing your city mouse country mouse journey! What a wonderful thing it will be to go back to the country when it is my turn. I enjoyed seeing it from your end of the pasture.

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