This past week was a large milestone for the web log as we passed our 30,000,000th visitant to the site . When we first come out talk about gardening , canning , cooking and living a more simple life – neither of us realize just how many citizenry really wanted to do the same .
Jim and Mary – With some of our fine friends .
But one thing has become evident with the emergence of the website – every day , week , and year – more and more hoi polloi want to slow up down and live a more mere and fulfil life .
Jim and Mary – With some of our finest friends.
And if there is one dubiousness we seem to get more than any other these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. – it is this : “ How did it all start for you two ? ”
So we thought for this week ’s Farm Update , we would divvy up one of the chapters from our bookGrowing Simplethat tells how we , and the farm came to be . We hope you bask …
How It All Started – How We Became Jim and Mary
If it is talking gardening or the farm – we are always all smiles
We can both write and talk all day long about gardening , our farm , our goals , chickens , bees , recipe or any other thing that cover the subject of Old World Garden Farms . It is easy . It is what we have intercourse . It is what we handle about . It is what we make love . But it ’s quite different when we baby-sit down to write a section together about our relationship , and how it all came to be .
We realized instantly that it is hard to put into words what we deal and how lucky we are . I will never say we take for yield what we have together , but we both make how rosy we are to have crossed each other ’s path . People that take heed us speak or meet us for the first clip usually involve if we were high school sweethearts . They luff to the fact that we partake so much in common , that we do everything together , and that we are so at comfort with each other .
If it is talk gardening or the farm – we are always all smiles
Yes , every single one of those statements is true . But the whole verity is that until we met , we both went through some hard times in our own life . I think the Francis Scott Key for both of us , and something we always attempt to pass on to others is that no matter where you are in your life , and no matter what situation you face – you may look it with a positive attitude and an overt mind . I really think in a nutshell that is what help us take on anything .
Mary and I raise up less than 30 miles apart – but it was n’t until after in life that we were fortunate enough to have our lives finally clash together . We were actually both married in 1993 , just not to each other . Yes , like many Americans , we are a blended family , and every day we substantiate how incredibly fortunate we are to have each other , and four kid that have blended and adhere so well together . We express mirth at how many times our path plausibly cross without ever lie with it . We both played fun at rival catholic high schools at the same time – and we acknowledge that there had to be many time we were watch and rooting against each other .
It gets better – both of our first marriages were perform by the same non-Christian priest , which encounter to by my Uncle , who also baptized both of our first - digest in the same Christian church without either of us knowing it . Sometimes we marvel how we never officially met – but it sure as shooting move without say that all good things issue forth to those who hold back .
Our parents planted the seeds of gardening in us as kids – my mom in her garden in the mid-70’s.
Our parents planted the seeds of gardening in us as kids – my momma in her garden in the mid-70 ’s .
For us , it was only fitting that for two hoi polloi who grow up loving sport – it was their children ’s sporting event that finally bring them together . We met at a basketball game , and the rest as they say , is history .
When Mary and I at last run into – it was crying . We realized from the moment we first spoke to each other that we were simply meant to be . I ca n’t describe it , and neither can Mary . We are one . We think in each other . We believe in ourselves . We know that at the end of the day – no matter what has happened , that we will be there for each other . Together , that Julian Bond has carried us through . There are not many sentences that we ca n’t land up for each other , and not many ideas we do n’t at least agree about in some shape or form . I conceive what makes us strong as a squad is that we are both very strong individuals . We do n’t dwell on the negative ,
We have so very many hoi polloi to give thanks for our positive outlook and attitude and for helping to make our own ambition becoming a world . The lean is full of sib , relatives and stuffy friends who helped mould our lives – but without fail – it all started with our parent . Each of our parents helped shape our formative years with an emphasis on working hard for what you want and what you believe in . They did n’t just utter the pass – they walked it .
Mary ’s parent on their fiftieth wedding day of remembrance solar day
We are both so very goddam to have had 4 parents who were never afraid to get their hands dirty – and who made indisputable we get dirty as well ! Both sets of parent garden , canned , and sleep with to share family line meal . They set those seeds in us at an other years . They expose us to the wonders of our own backyards . Whether it was time spend in the garden planting and harvest home , or even the direful chores of weeding – we learned valuable life skills while breathing in the tonic air of the great outdoors .
Mary’s parents on their 50th wedding anniversary day
The listing could go on and on – mowing , rake leave-taking , planting tree diagram or helping in the bed of flowers , but the simple fact is our parent learn us both the stunner of nature and the value of a piddling knockout study and sweat . They teach us how to grow our own food – and more importantly – that it was ok to get our hands sordid . Yes – like most kids with those memories , I think we can both be true and accommodate that at the metre we might not have revalue our compulsory participation in the depute chores – but I can tell you they lay the groundwork for what we make out today . In addition to all of that – they taught us it was all right to make mistakes . And that it was far more important to keep our heads up and learn from those slip than to hang them in defeat .
We have both made misunderstanding , had success , unsuccessful person , and everything in between . And we will stay to do all of those with gusto . It is who and what we are about – and why it is so important to the story of Old World Garden Farms . Yes , it is ok to flush it , and it is okay to get pink down – but most importantly , you simply have to keep trying for what you love and think in . It is an example that we both hope that we are passing down to our own children as well . And with that – you know a minuscule about us . Happy Gardening – Jim and Mary
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