Mountain Jeannie was a gypsy at heart, she did a lot of traveling in early years and settled down on 20 acres in the mountains of Colorado up against Pike National Forest. She lived there 35 years by herself mostly eating off what she could grow or shoot. During the winters she was snowed in and couldn't get out for about 3 months at a time. The summers were spent after chores driving to town 1.5 hours mostly in 4 wheel drive to clean houses and offices, a stop at the Match Box Bar afterwords, then the long drive home. Wednesdays after work was her time spent at the horse races in Littleton. Saturday and Sunday was a lot of chores repairing house and barn or out buildings (still had outhouse), gardening, chopping wood, working on the road filling in the ruts, friends would sometimes come up and then lunch or dinner prepared out on the fire pit and eating out under the trees.
This was a life of hard work and loneliness but the beauty and quietness of her sanctuary was worth it to her. Granddaughters would spend most summers with her and learned a lot about life for city kids, she was tough but fair in the teaching.
This was a life of hard work and loneliness but the beauty and quietness of her sanctuary was worth it to her. Granddaughters would spend most summers with her and learned a lot about life for city kids, she was tough but fair in the teaching.
Mountain Jeannie was a gypsy at heart, she did a lot of traveling in early years and settled down on 20 acres in the mountains of Colorado up against Pike National Forest. She lived there 35 years by herself mostly eating off what she could grow or shoot. During the winters she was snowed in and couldn't get out for about 3 months at a time. The summers were spent after chores driving to town 1.5 hours mostly in 4 wheel drive to clean houses and offices, a stop at the Match Box Bar afterwords, then the long drive home. Wednesdays after work was her time spent at the horse races in Littleton. Saturday and Sunday was a lot of chores repairing house and barn or out buildings (still had outhouse), gardening, chopping wood, working on the road filling in the ruts, friends would sometimes come up and then lunch or dinner prepared out on the fire pit and eating out under the trees.
This was a life of hard work and loneliness but the beauty and quietness of her sanctuary was worth it to her. Granddaughters would spend most summers with her and learned a lot about life for city kids, she was tough but fair in the teaching.
This was a life of hard work and loneliness but the beauty and quietness of her sanctuary was worth it to her. Granddaughters would spend most summers with her and learned a lot about life for city kids, she was tough but fair in the teaching.
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