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About Me:

In 2006 I quit my city job of 20+ years to remarry, move and become a "farm wife". For the most part, I am a stay at home mom.

As of the 2007 school year, we are a homeschooling family.

We also farm. Our farms include a large garden, haying, horses, cows, geese, chickens, ducks, pigs, rabbits, 2 stocked ponds, small vineyard and an orchard.

We live at the main farm (the one with the animals) and our other farm is currently growing hay, nuts and firewood to harvest this fall.
In the spring we will be adding sheep, and turkeys.

We have 5 daughters, (including 2 sets of twins) 3 who are still at home.

I love to camp, travel, garden, fish, bake, do needlework, sew, genealogy and ride horses. One of my favorite places to travel to is Northern Indiana (LaGrange county), where I have Amish cousins and to learn about my ancestors.

My goal is to help this family stay on track financially and to stay out of debt, other than our mortgage.

Keeping the lights off

January 8th, 2008 at 01:36 am

I told the girls that this year I want to see them conserving both electric and water. They have made a game of it. The like to pretend they are their Amish cousins, and they try to not use any. So far, they are doing real good. I just got so tired of flipping off lights and coming home pulling in the driveway to find every light in their rooms and closets on shining out the windows. I threatened them that if I continued to catch them wasting electricity, I would split the next electric bill between the 3 of them and have them pay it!! I think the threat worked.

It was almost 70 degrees today. But, since all our snow has melted, it is a muddy mess. Tomorrow morning it is supposed to be in the 20's, then warm up to the 40's as the day goes along.

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6 Responses to “Keeping the lights off”

nance Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 01:47 am 1199756845
1199756845

I think the Amish have the right idea, especially after I got my electric bill today!
mjrube94 Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 04:05 am 1199765128
1199765128

My house is lit up like Christmas every day of the year. I'm constantly shutting off lights.
boomeyers Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 04:20 am 1199766014
1199766014

We are getting the thunderstorms right now.
Whenever we pull up to the house at night, inevitably I look up and see the lights on in the girls rooms, and I'll say "Look, E is home...." (even though she is in the car with us) I making sure they are aware what they did. I am constantly turning off lights too. I am so guilty of just not replacing bulbs in non important nights so I won't have to turn them off.
Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 06:11 am 1199772681
1199772681

Oh guess what, someone called me tonight and told me they'd stopped by to see me but that I wasn't home. Yes I was! I was alone, and reading on the internet, so no lights were needed in the house. They saw the dark house and assumed I was out.
Ima saver Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 01:44 pm 1199799899
1199799899

I read my meter every day, that keeps me conscious of how much power I am using.
mom-from-missouri Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 04:12 pm 1199808728
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Thats funny Joan. We once had a neighbor upset we didn't answer our door because lights and the TV were on. (we were not home--it was before we had our cityfied burgler alarm. Lights, TV or radio and a dog is my husbands idea of a redneck burgler alarm)

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