Getting to Know You:What's My Line?

[WaterWitchin]

So we're starting up a new thread. It's been requested a couple or more times just recently. The title is different than the old ones, and in the Off Topic Forum. Because you can talk about anything, even orchids, but there are better placed on the other threads.

This one's to spiel away about yourself. What you do, what you like, your background, the kind of stories about work, reflection, growing up, that make you how you are.

I'm personally an individual who these days goes to bed early, because I get up before the sun rises. Perhaps I'll share the whys of that soon. Meanwhile, I'm gonna cheat and grab some stuff from another post I did not so long ago. Because I really need to eat and go to bed. But it is a good start into who I am...

When I was born we lived with my paternal grandparents until I was five. My parents both worked long hours, so almost all my time was spent with grandma. This was back in the days where one lived with extended family, all food was grown and canned or stored. All meat was butchered by two of grandma’s brothers (one pigs, one beef). We had our own chickens, geese, and fished during the summer.

We made our own cheese, yogurt, kefir, butter, etc. (another of grandma’s brothers did dairy cows). We had fruit trees, a vineyard, etc, and made our own sauerkraut (cabbage and turnip), wine, beer, whiskey, and a passed down secret recipe from the old country for catsup with forty ingredients. The list goes on. I’m sure you get the drift by now. We didn’t go to a grocery store for anything other than salt, flour, baking soda and powder, cinnamon, vanilla, etc.

My grandma spent her “spare” time growing any and every type of flower or plant she could get her hands on. She passed on her “recipe for fertilizer” to me (really probiotics) and I started assisted in making it when I was old enough to walk. It was a base mix, then when necessary we would add something else to the soil depending on what we were growing… like fish heads and egg shells and matches when we planted tomatoes. I’ve rarely bought fertilizer unless it was a convenience thing.