Hi Ya'll, Another Newbie Here!

**MarshHen** · 12-31-2004, 12:43 AM

Warm greetings from coastal Georgia!

I live on 5 acres with my hubby and 12 year old daughter whom I homeschool. We also have two grown married children and 4 beautiful grandbabies.

We sold our previous home and are now in the process of building another home ourselves. We have purchased a sawmill and will cut our own lumber.

We have a garden and grow whatever is in season and I put up what we harvest. We also raise a few pigs for meat and will soon raise quail as well. We had chickens for a good while, but the high winds that came through with the last hurricane sent a large oak tree crashing through the chicken yard and we lost all but a few hens. I have found homes for the remaining few until I can build another pen. This spring we plan on buying a few goats and a donkey and maybe a cow. We have plans in the works for a smoke house and a corn cribb for the feed corn.

We also share our home with one cat named Willie, a chihuahua named Abby, and a black lab named Dixie. We also take in orphaned & injured wildlife until they are able to return to the wild.

My hobbies include gardening, cooking, cookbook collecting, yard sales, crafts and reading. We attend church where I teach Children's Church and I'm V.P. of the Ladies Ministries.

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone here.

**Sara Noel** · 12-31-2004, 01:01 AM

Welcome to Frugal Village. I'm Sara. Married with two children (Zachary 5 and Alexandra 2)

Sorry to hear about your chickens.

You may like our sister site at www.homesteadgarden.com too

Happy you joined us.

**catl8dy** · 12-31-2004, 01:08 AM

Great intro.
I don't think you told me about the chickens!
Am sorry to hear about it.
I'll bet you're glad THAT season is over.
Wow, they were comin' in one after the other.

So glad we are all on the trail again together.

**matt&roxy** · 12-31-2004, 01:17 AM

Welcome to the village..........

**MarshHen** · 12-31-2004, 03:19 AM

Thanks to all for the warm, lovely greetings. I can see that I have found a home here.

(((Hugs)))

**Panndy1** · 12-31-2004, 03:41 AM

Carolyn,

Great intro. Now that is an avatar. LOL So glad the 3 of us are here together.

**Michelle** · 12-31-2004, 05:39 AM

Welcome to the Village

**Julia Kimber** · 12-31-2004, 05:42 AM

Hi and welcome to the village!

Julia

**Darlene** · 12-31-2004, 07:17 AM

Woohoo, new friends! Nice to meet you Carolyn, welcome to the Village.

Can't wait to hear more about you & your homelife as you grow into your new home.

**QuilterMom** · 12-31-2004, 08:00 AM

Welcome to FV!

I'm a northwest GA native and adore the Savannah area. We're thinking of moving away from FL (we want more acreage and back around southern folks attitudes and manners) in a few years and one of the places dh is heavily campaigning for is south GA.

**Mom23boys** · 12-31-2004, 08:24 AM

Hello and welcome to the village! I think you will make lots of freinds here as well as get some great info.

**MarshHen** · 12-31-2004, 09:09 AM

Hi Kim,

LOL, well ya'll come on. We live about 10 miles east of Darien, Ga.. Hubby is a crane operator at the Savannah Ports Authority and that is about 1 1/2 hours from where we are, but to him it's worth the drive to have the space and peace. This property we have now is right behind his boyhood home and he grew up hunting and playing back here when he was a kid. We are but a skip and a hop from the Altamaha river, so during the summer we fish the river and pond here on the property. We run trout lines in the river swamp when the water is high enough and catch catfish. Being this close to the coast, we also shrimp, crab, flounder & frog gig too. LOL, we say we raise frogs, but actually we have a large natural pond here on the property that is full of frogs. We hunt deer and wild hogs and grow a summer and winter garden. We pretty well got it all except the grits. LOL

Oh by the way, I got Diana aka Catl8dy, hooked on grits up there in WI.. LOL, ask her about it.