Like a spider with its intricate web, I spin the tales of yesterday-the 1900's or 20th century-as we lived them in rural Australia. These are my yarns of a city couple gone 'green'-often unashamedly embarrassing, but always triumphantly truthful as I sing the sagas of yesteryear. I believe in their value-today, and way into the future.
Having survived this way of life and these times, I believe I have the right to write... about Life as it was lived in our corner of the world. My personal beginning and that of my husband Kanute (Old McLarsen himself), started in other places and times, with each of us having our own collection of life happenings that somehow brought us and rural life together. What follows here are our farming tales-from humbling and bumbling beginnings in the most Western State of Australia, to the ongoing saga of today's retirement farm back in our home State of South Australia.
Come join me on our 40+ year journey 'down the garden path'. Hopefully, the faintest stirring of human curiosity will entice you to share our fantastic odyssey. The dictionary definition of 'fantastic' is-
odd and remarkable, bizarre, as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination, extravagantly fanciful or capricious, outlandish-and also extraordinarily good.
Our rural life together has been all of that... and so much more.
'The Missus'
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Old McLarsen had some Farms
Non-Fiction"You two become farmers? You must be kidding!" How little our friends really knew us. Sure, that's how life had been for the Secretary and the Building Supervisor... but those were the keywords - "had been". An opportunity had arisen to learn farmi...
