HomesteaderWife - Tales from Wolf Branch [05/10/2023 - The New Fella!]

Gosh... my problem is no typing skills whatsoever... I hunt and peck with 2 fingers on left hand and one on right. and they are short, stubby (ok... fat) fingers. So I'm forever turning on caps lock when I need an "a" or adding all sorts of extra letters or spaces into words and having to go back and delete out or correct... I know an old dog can learn new tricks, but I'm not a dog, and at almost 60, I figure it's not worth wasting the effort at something that matters so little in the big scheme of things

Latestarter said:

Gosh... my problem is no typing skills whatsoever... I hunt and peck with 2 fingers on left hand and one on right. and they are short, stubby (ok... fat) fingers. So I'm forever turning on caps lock when I need an "a" or adding all sorts of extra letters or spaces into words and having to go back and delete out or correct... I know an old dog can learn new tricks, but I'm not a dog, and at almost 60, I figure it's not worth wasting the effort at something that matters so little in the big scheme of things

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I used to be able to type 75 wpm - well, with a few errors. . Then, I got out of the workforce, due to Lyme Disease. So, I wasn't typing as much & my speed went down. Then, we went from using a full size keyboard to hunt & peck, on a tiny touch screen keyboard, with hand tremors, I went to a BLAZING 10 wpm - that's if I am lucky, and if I don't drop my smart phone, like I just did. . . . And don't EVEN get me started on all (I'll) the crazy changes SPELL check makes to the meaning of what I am trying to say . . .

Like "I'll" for "all" above? Have you ever visited any of the sites that quote the funnier things spell check and auto correct have done to some folks wording? Every time I go I LMAO! I mean tears streaming laughing...


Edit: Looks like you saw it and corrected it

So, today, one of my hens (narrowed to one of two of them) laid one of those humongous eggs....wow, I kept thinking there must be a duck around here! Like yours, double the size of her normally large egg. NO way it will fit into a carton, haven't cracked it yet but, sure it's at least a double yolker. In past years, I have had a hen lay a triple yolker! Small yolks, big egg, like this one. I was looking for the one who was "walking funny" after that drop!

When I first found it, on the ground by the hen house, not inside in nest, I didn't have time to check it out. Crappy drizzle rainy day, had just had a knock on door, and sheriff was there --
asking "are these your horses in the road?" Well, yes....those ARE my ten mares!!!!!!!!!! They were in the edge of the hay field across street. Told him I'd run to barn, get a feed bucket and get them back! I did & saw he nicely waited in case there was help needed. Like a pied piper, we all went back to a field --- and I went to find the fence failure & repaired it!!

Animals always keep you guessing! (and busy)

Typing -- I'm with ya'll. I used to be really fast and accurate. Now, well I need to proof read more before I hit "send" , even in slow motion.

A GREAT UPDATE! I now blog bi-weekly online for the popular site Mother Earth News.

My Mother Earth News Bio Page
http://www.motherearthnews.com/biographies/fala-burnette-alabama-crafter-and-homesteader.aspx

My First Article
http://www.motherearthnews.com/home...earned-from-childhood-on-a-farm-zbcz1512.aspx

Our Website
http://www.wolfbranchhomestead.com/

Started reading and found this: "But she also spent a great deal of my time on her grandmother’s 40-acre farm an hour out of town, and it was there that she learned what the work of her hands could accomplish."

Mixing first person and third person... can you edit?

Also, at the bottom of the 2nd article:
"Fala Burnette is a homesteader with her husband at Wolf Branch Homestead in Alabama. She is currently building a small cabin using lumber she milled herself and raising chickens, rabbits, and ducks. In Spring 2016, she will start growing a large crop of heirloom Indian corn that she will save to sell and make cornmeal with."

Shouldn't it read "they?"

Sorry if I'm being picky...

@Latestarter I am glad you mentioned this. The person posting all my articles that is the blogging head changed a lot of the things I wrote up for the application including these things. I will write her and let her know about this! Thanks

EDIT: Just sent an email to try and get changes made. Thanks again!

Pretty bad when the writer has to correct the editor aye? <snicker>

That is a good article. It made me remember spending time with my grandparents. Now I am the grandparent and I love having our grand daughters over.