Is anyone having trouble keeping up with the forum? I've put several questions on lately and I find I don't have time to read all the responses. (I'm one to push myself way too much anyway)Breakfast, lunch and breaks are my computer time while I'm so busy trying to save my tomatoes from blight and sunscald, and all the other canning, planting and garden stuff; my husband had more singing dates lately, not to mention life in general. I've learned so much from all of you and have a lot of respect for everyone on the forum even those on the opposite side of the fence. I don't read all the threads, but the majority of them are important to me. How do you that work away from home and homestead still keep up with the forum? I either need sympathy or a lecture.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), August 11, 2000

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Hi Cindy,

Lunch, breaks, sometimes a bit before bed. Haven't been getting much sleep lately since there's so much to do. Also, I get kind of picky about which threads I read. I'm commuting or at work about 11 hours a day. But at least I can see the light at the end of the long, long tunnel!

Laura

-- Laura Jensen (lauraj@seedlaw.com), August 11, 2000.

This sure points up the need for a concise title that describes the content of the thread. I try to take a few minutes each day to relax here, but sometimes I don't make it and am amazed at what I have missed. I now click on about 20% - the ones that interest me. GL!

-- Brad (Homefixer@SacoRiver.net), August 11, 2000.

Cindy, I work a 30 hr week and altough I am not what you all would call a homesteader, I have a large garden and rabbits and live as frugal as I can. My garden started out a year before y2k as a test garden and now has grown to a full selfsustaining garden. Time for the forum is best for me around 3 am. That's my wake up time and gives me an hour or so. Then another ltiile nap and off I go. I love so many of the treads that I save some om a floppy and I print them at work. I have even used some as a devotiobal time. O well, as if you don't have better things to do than to listen to me. Have a good day! Aagje

-- Aagje Franken (Backyard@AOL.com), August 11, 2000.

I don't work outside the house much anymore, thank goodness, and my husband. But I will put my bit in anyway. I usually log on in the morning just after my husband leaves for work, I spend about an hour on the forum and answering email. Then again in the late afternoon if I have time. I tell you, the time on this forum is like going to church for me. The people are so wonderful, when I leave the forum I feel all good inside knowing that there really are "good" people out there. Anytime you spend here is time well spent.

-- Tina (clia88@newmexico.com), August 12, 2000.

I go to the Forum, and click on the topics that look interesting, as I have time--sometimes just a few, other times more. I figure the stuff that is going on in my life and the things in this Forum compliment each other!The Countryside forum is pretty much the only one I go to, now--I don't have time for all the others, so I stick with the best!

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), August 13, 2000.

I don't have a lot of spare time, but I read everything here sooner or later. I haven't watched TV in over a month, this is much more educatinal! I sorta feel like I'm taking a class; this is required reading, and I'm learning practical, useful things every day. Thanks everyone.

-- Cathy Horn (hrnofplnty@webtv.net), August 13, 2000.

As I e-mailed the religious writer of our local paper who had wrote a column on today's mantra "I'm just SO busy", we are all each given a certain amount of time here on this earth and what we do with this time is purely up to us. We must make the choices ourselves. Frequent access to this Forum is therapeutic for me and I need all the free therapy I can get! (The reporter decided that most people say that to feel important and I many times agree. When it is said to me I get the impression that I'm not important to the sayer and feel personally slighted. :O(

-- Sandy (smd2@netzero.net), August 18, 2000.

I don't spend any time on any other forum--this is "home" to me! I truely enjoy all the people here & most of all I enjoy how we respect each other/ even if we don't agree with each other. I know I can get people's opinions or help no matter what I post. I enjoy so many of our family's sense of humor--that comes through as they post. I have to get a "countryside forum fix", as often as I can. I appreciate ever person who posts here!(I also learn something every time I come here!) Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), August 18, 2000.