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Post by Jolly on Jun 19, 2022 16:35:30 GMT
If I ever get the time...
I need to sit down and write a journal. There are so many things I've learned about rural life in my area (many times the hard way), that I think it might make a useful resource for my kids. Nothing fancy, just things like how to know when to plant corn, what varieties of vegetables I've found that work best for me, other odds and ends.
Think your kids would like for you to write down some stuff for them?
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Post by Txsteader on Jun 19, 2022 18:38:39 GMT
I don't know if the kids would ever appreciate it but I do keep a journal, mostly for my own benefit. I write down which varieties I plant each year, planting dates, what worked/what didn't, weather conditions, etc.
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Post by paisley2 on Jun 19, 2022 21:37:55 GMT
I read my mother in laws journal... She was really mentally ill!!! She had a hobby of attempting suicide... She finally was successful.... Thus the we got her boxes of writing
Taylor is an adult...should past them on or burn them
I am talking about writings about her killing her husband with the knife she kept under the bed.
The are not my family. Jim was not interested in any of it.
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Post by BrewDaddy on Jun 19, 2022 21:55:17 GMT
I've tried the journal thing in the past but always gave it up... I would start in on something and just go on and on and on, even worse than I do in my posts here.... Up until a couple years ago I kept more or less what I called a 'ships log'... not so much thoughts and feelings though those made it in from time to time, but just anything new or significant that happened. When I mention that I'm writing something long winded intending it for my 'nephew', that's what I'm referring to. bd
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jun 20, 2022 2:22:51 GMT
Jolly, Especially the things you learned the hard way. After disregarding your advice the first time they'll be glued to the journal after that.
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Post by Txsteader on Jun 20, 2022 10:06:06 GMT
I've never kept a life journal/diary, I figured my life was too boring for such as that. But a garden journal is useful to me.
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Post by laurazone5 on Jun 20, 2022 11:24:22 GMT
I keep a garden journal. My oldest, has laid claim to them when I push up daisy's.
I have a decent (ever adding too) library of "how to" books.
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Post by solargeek on Jun 20, 2022 12:54:03 GMT
The only time I ever kept a journal was with our little son when he was in utero and then his short 16 month life. It was more to keep track of all the medical information being dropped on us, because it was so far over my head with all the cardio-thoracic implications.
Bless my secretary where I was working who typed it up for me since nobody can read my handwriting.
Amazingly it’s been very helpful with other cardio complications of not immediate family members and their children. We’ve had two other family babies with not as drastic but similar problems. Apparently heart stuff like our son’s is hereditary.
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Post by solargeek on Jun 20, 2022 12:55:33 GMT
Oh and I forgot, I dictate what I planted in my 39 raised beds because by the time I get around to labeling it up completely, I have forgotten. It’s on my phone under “notes“. Then each year I try to rotate what one in the bed.
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