RE: throw away society

I understand, it took this neighborhood YEARS to accept the fact that
I'm not married. I'm only now after 8 years starting to become
"acceptable" to these backward provincials in this one mule town.

An independent woman living alone - gasp!!

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:00:00 -0500

>I had a neighbor once get upset with me.  I had been out hauling rock and
>laying paver bricks (among other things) beside Bill.  She complained that
>because I did "men's work" it was causing her to look bad to her husband.
>He wanted to know why she didn't pitch in outside once in a while.) LOL!!!
>Of such is life!
>
>Blessings,
>Bonnie (SW OH - zone5)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
>Of Theresa
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:15 PM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] throw away society
>
>I'll second that!  I am delighted that I can replace a kitchen faucet, haul
>shrubs out of the ground, and still occassionally catch guys watching me
>walk across the grocery store parking lot when I'm in a pair of heels.
>Thank god my husband is also an independent thinking person- and not in the
>least threatened by my tendency to do what ever comes to mind.  (Although he
>did fuss at me when I nearly got crushed underneath the yard waste barrel
>becuase I had put about 400 lbs of stuff in it and then tried to move it all
>by myself :)  It cracks me up when my male neighbor across the street wants
>to know where my husband is when I'm out working in the yard and garden-  It
>is my project, not my husbands!  It worries my thought when his 11 year old
>daughter doesn't understand this- maybe eventually a little of my influence
>will rub off on her.
>
>Theresa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
>Behalf Of Pamela J. Evans
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:10 PM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] throw away society
>
>
>Amen to that Donna. My mother once said to me, not too many years ago,
>that she wondered if she raised us to be too independent! I told her -
>absolutely not. Can't be too independent. That would like being too into
>gardening - can't happen!!
>
>
>LOL
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date:  Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:46:43 -0600
>
>>I think this was the most important thing you can do for your child...
>> No matter what life throws at them, they will be able to handle it...
>>whether we approve or not...
>>
>>Donna
>>
>>
>>>  I became a very
>>> independent person, and raised my sons to be individuals.  They
>>haven't
>>> always
>>> turned out the way I expected, but they are all very much independent
>>> individuals.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your concern.        Auralie
>>
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>
>--
>Pam Evans
>Kemp TX/zone 8A
>
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