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Happy Birthday Wilma, have a great 2025

Just checking in after several years. Hope you are doing well. I am doing well and don’t feel my age. Have a good 2025.

Thank you Kathi for the Birthday greetings. And thank you for always remembering. I doing and feeling good and don’t feel my age. Hope you are doing well too. Have a great 2025.

Tom, just started building an old farm display much like Old World Wisconsin but not as big. a blacksmith shop, a shoe repair shop, two grist mills, and a big corn sheller all flat-belt driven, Tom Hare is Having fun. Did you see I wrote a book?

Posted on: Dec 08, 2024 at 8:10 AM

I just started yet another chapter in my life. With the help of the publisher of my first book, we are building an educational display much like (Old World Wisconsin ) My publisher bought my first farm in North Carolina now called Rare Bird Farm, look them up. They are a non-profit group and have turned my old farm (Briar Rose Farm ) into a music venue with shows and workshops almost every weekend. After taking my daughter Brenda's 6th class years ago to Old World Wisconsin I thought how fun it would be to create something similar in Madison County North Carolina where I live. We were devastated by the flood waters of Hurricane Heline and are rebuilding I thought I could add some ideas for show and tell for educational purposes. So far I have acquired two grist mills for grinding field corn into bread flour and animal feed, an old corn sheller several old blacksmith tools, and just acquired an old store scale for weighing good goods by the pound unlike they do today in boxes and plastic bags. Being a professional picker as I am I know how to find this old-time stuff.
and do this every day on Facebook Marketplace. My publisher and friend Mitchell Davis want to turn my farm into a museum, See ( Tom Hares Madison County Cabin ) I was born in the forties, I still have my high school car my 1940 Ford coupe and I have bought the house I live into the 1940s also. If you would like to add to this venture, give me a call at 828 622 3230, Email me, at toms1940ford@gmail.com, or do a note to Tom Hare, 489 Duckett Top Tower Rd. Hot Springs N.C. 28743.

It's never too late to start a new venture, this is what keeps Tom Hare going, thank you for your time reading my update. 12/8/1924

I dropped in to see you this summer, but you weren't home. Tom

Mary Ann, I thought you were hot in HS but I had a problem talking with girls, you can read about that problem in my first book ( Mountain Bound and The Life I Found ), I hope you had a nice birthday with your kids.

Tom Hare

Posted on: Jun 11, 2024 at 11:33 AM

Read what happened when I left my home in Crystal Lake at 53 years old. My first book was published on Jan. 15th, 2024 (Mountain Bound And The Life I Found https://a.co/d/3DWFbli), you can say I am living on the back side of fifty and still having fun at 82 years old.

LOOKING FOR A TRAVEL PARTNER
Timeline: (flexible) - I'd like to travel south for approximately two months next year and I'm looking for an adventurous person to share this experience and the navigation from here to there. I'm open to traveling to any points south of the Georgia/Florida line at this time. We will be stopping at many campgrounds, both public and private, and as many points of interest as we can find. Where would you like to visit? Have you been to the Florida Keys? Do you like to fish?

You can travel for one week, two weeks, or more. Fly back home, take a Greyhound bus, or just finish the adventure.

Preferences - Must be able to read a road map / GPS / or a Boy Scout compass, I will do the driving and like to keep road time at a minimum so we have time to smell the roses if we find any.

Requirements - Non-smoker, tidy, a sense of humor, share cost of travel expenses ( gas, food)

Provided - Travel and sleeping accommodations. I am not looking for a nurse and a purse or vice versa.

Accommodations - 27-foot Airstream Flying Cloud camper. Google Airstream 2010 flying Cloud floor plan. This camper sleeps six people but I am looking for just one down-to-earth person to share this space.

Next Steps - If this sounds like something you may be interested in, I welcome discussing this venture further. Come for an interview and interview me. Be sure to ask many questions as I will have some of my own.

We will be taking a shake-down trip/camp near Spring Creek to see if everything clicks between the two of us and the travel capsule. This time period is when we make adjustments to our time together on the road, remember we only live once so good planning will be essential to make this a trip to remember and share our experiences with others.

One final note, I am nearing my 82nd birthday, but I have the spirit of a teenager. I've been around the block a few times and now I'd like to travel to see more of our beautiful country. I enjoy storytelling, bartering/trading, and learning from others. I'm easy-going, street-smart, and very observant. As a heads-up, I hope you'd be open to pulling over and exploring a bit if something catches my eye or if you're interested in something on the road. Other than the many Florida miles logged and sites seen, what could possibly go wrong as time marches on for the both of us? One more thought, we could compile enough data to write a book on our travels to life's end or a wiser beginning.

Tom Hare toms1940fordgmail.com

Richerd, I wish I could retire, I see you did in 2010, and I am still looking for that day when I can. I still have (The Trail of Dreams ) to finish and I just started my second book.

Don, Tom Hare here, I am sorry I have not gotten back to you as there are just too many things on my plate. Happy birthday to you and get that house built, I would like to see it someday. Tom toms1940ford@gmail.com

Posted on: Feb 02, 2024 at 7:54 AM

Dale, thanks for the referral of my book to Don Harrington, he even bought one, I am happy about that toms1940ford@gmail.com

Wilma, would you like my new book for your birthday? toms1940ford@gmail.com

Just finished my first book ( Mountain Bound And The Life I Found ) Can be found on Amazon. Some stories about my school years and after I moved to North Carolina. This is my first writing of anything, I didn't think I learned anything in my school years but I was wrong, Tom Hare is having fun at 81 years old, proof you can teach an old dog new tricks. Tom Hare 2024

Tom, did you quit farming, I did and started a book, my first and not the last, the title is ( Mountain Bound And The Life I Found. )