Fatigue
Looks like she's worn out her welcome on Twitter one way or the other. When she blasts the self promotion, she gets reported...haha. Even with the number of followers she has the most things interested in her posts are crickets....unless she asks for dog pictures. She probably gets about zero donations and about that amount of requests for the crap she sells.
She'll move to Instagram and hope for new suckers.
HD. Your observations are spot-on. I've also noticed how her begging is garnering very little response on Twitter. Donor fatigue is finally happening. People don't want to give constant handouts to able-bodied and college-educated lazy losers, who won't work to support themselves as normal adults do.
ReplyDeleteYep, something is definitely up. Like she received some news that just knocked the wind out of her and now she's just given up. Hasn't posted on the bleg in two weeks and hasn't been on Twitter much...perhaps cuz there's nothing to say?
DeleteOn the last thread, Maisie posted this Instagram comment PS made:
❝ Hello new followers from Cold Antler Farm! I am an open book. Message any time, read the books, read the 10+ years of blogs. I’m here and happy to chat with you! Please do send a message. ❞
So she's an open book, message any time, she's happy to chat with you. However, she didn't respond to any of the comments, especially the one about a possible new book. Nor has she answered that Heathen question. It's like the train wreck has lost all it's final steam.
Everytime she spams her sales on Twitter, I report her. I have reported her for months. I'm sure others have as well.
DeleteIt would be great if Twitter finally put a stop to it. Looking at the numbers of replies and retweet to/of her Tweets, it's obvious that her followers have muted her because she is so crazy and annoying.
Instagram is a very difficult platform to monetize if you don't have another money generating platform to link to like a YouTube channel or a product sales page. She has none of that. Asking for DMs all the time isn't going to translate into cash flow for her.
ReplyDeleteShe's also trying to sell herself to a group of people who are generally all broke. She's back to pushing her narrative on the LBGTQ personals page... but most successful single LBGTQ aren't having to use Instagram personals to get a date.
This is her current personal add.... it's so pitiful and desperate.
It is whispered by the locals that somewhere in the mountains of upstate New York past the cut corn fields with leering crows and up a winding country road there's a farm with a monogamous femme still looking for a girlfriend. If you say her name 3x in a mirror she'll text you right back. @coldantlerjenna Cambridge, NY
"...somewhere in the mountains..."
Delete😂 😂 😂
This would be sad, if it wasn't so dishonest. She lives off a main road, ground floor, near the trendy Washington County town of Cambridge, NY. She makes herself out to be Heidi-on-the-mountain.
What a poser. What a fake.
I'm probably at a higher elevation than she is.
Here's a more truthful ad for the FFF:
DeleteIt is shouted by the leery locals that somewhere in the slums of Cambridge past the piles of poop, and up a winding country road, there's a faux farm with a wannabe femme still looking for a sucker to support her lazy loser lifestyle. If you say her name 3x in a mirror she'll text you right back, between her bouts of tweeting insipid pop culture references to her dumb enablers.
I guess she is trying for something unique or whatever, but it kinda sounds just creepy. Like the beginning of some scary movie. And desperate... "STILL" looking for a girlfriend... yikes. Kinda feel bad for her. Sorta.
DeleteIs it really even a mountain? Or just a big hill? But yeah, creepy indeed. Say her name 3x in a mirror? Like she's bloody freakin' Mary? Sound like something she came up with after a few beers.
DeleteThat ad screams narcissistic sociopath.
DeleteIt also screams "I'm a nitwit living alone in a rural area. Predators please apply."
Many people are successfully self employed while working from home. The $64,000 question is, why won't she create a business website? Especially since it seems the pity donations are drying up.
ReplyDeleteWhy? I'll whisper it three times for you: Taxes... taxes... taxes...
Delete;-) ~DM~
She won't "create a business website" not just to evade paying taxes. It would also involve taking time to run and maintain her website. And her teenage priorities take precedence over her professional life, like mindless ruminations regarding Taylor Swift's sexuality.
DeleteFFF is trying to stay on the down-low. Not publishing standard rates, not having a website, asking that people "donate" money, using multiple PayPal accounts to receive donations and asking that orders be DM'd could be signs she's protecting income.
DeleteWith her business "model", she enjoys an annual exclusion of $15,000 for gifts. Also, the minimum income for filing at her age is $12,000. Thus, she can be "gifted" (receive donations) $15,000 per year TAX-FREE, plus not pay taxes on an additional $12,000 per year. That is a cool $27,000 TAX-FREE.
*If she had a job, she'd have to earn $34,500 to have $27,000 per year (after taxes) available to her.
Of course, this is *cough* financial supposition. There might be additional money or gifts that are under-reported or unreported.
Anon 7:31, funny you mention that as I was wondering if Long Shadow Horses is using the logo she made for them. (They're not) and there's no one place to view her work. You have to trawl thru her Twitter past all the nauseating Taylor Swift nonsense to find any examples. Super bad business plan there.
DeleteNo one uses Pig Shocker's childish, clip art logos.
DeleteThey are pity purchases by people who don't know any better and feel sorry for her.
PDD, I believe you are absolutely, spot-on correct with this. I've often wondered how she wiggles out of paying taxes on the sales of her products and this has to be it. It's a "donation" and the money classifies as a gift, not a purchase. Perhaps since it's the end of the tax year she's made her quota of money and will lay off the ads until 2020.
DeleteWell, 7:31, I haven’t followed her shenanigans for very long but my first impression of her was that she’s a tax dodging scammer who uses animals for props in her schemes and it’s very worrisome as to whether those animals are being properly cared for when not in use as props.
ReplyDeleteI believe what you see IS her business model. I just haven’t been able to figure out if her scamming is a side job or her actual income flow. What do you guys think?
It's impossible to know, but it's very short sighted of her. By getting money under the table, she is building no future safety net. She may be able to get away with it while she's relatively young, but just wait until she gets older. Social security averages out the last 30 or so years of employment, so she will get very little.
DeleteYou need 40 social security credits to collect the minimum SS when you retire. That equates to at least 10 years of work. She went to four years of college (maybe worked a little part time?). She hit the workforce when she was about 21 or 22 in 2005. She worked at a TV station in TN, then moved to Idaho and worked at Coldwater in about 2006 or 2007. Then on to Coldwater in Sandpoint, Idaho. She only stayed in Idaho a year. Then on to Vermont, then NY where she quit her cushy job in 2012. I found a narrative from a few years back on the bleg outlining that little history.
DeleteThat means she's only worked about eight years paying SS taxes. EIGHT YEARS! It doesn't qualify her to collect anything when she retires, unless she's been paying into SS as a self-employed person (which I highly doubt).
Sandpoint, Idaho is fairly near me, a bit more than an hour away. Interestingly, she didn't even know where she was when she was in Idaho (big surprise). She stated, "...living in that old farmhouse, set against the Rockies..." Sandpoint is surrounded by three major mountain ranges, the Selkirk, Cabinet, and Bitterroot ranges. Really, nowhere near the Rockies.
But I digress... The point, as many here have noted, is that she has very little chance of collecting any retirement unless she starts accumulating those work credits again. I see a bleak future for our FFF.
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Ooops I edited too much and repeated a bit about Idaho there.... Sorry!
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I think it's a combination of two things: She moderately begs and spams Twitter for extra money for fun things, but then goes overboard with multiple tweets and disaster stories for when she hasn't "earned up" the mortgage payment.
DeleteI’m wondering about the ad revenue generated by her blog which she seems to have abandoned. It has never seemed that the companies that advertised have ever cared about her dubious character, but you’d think at some point they’d quit paying for space.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't she only get revenue when someone clicks on a link?
DeleteI don't think that the "ad revenue" was ever substantial, if it even existed, and even doubt that most of those companies are aware that they're merely decorating her boring blog. Clearly, if she was really making decent money off of ads, then she wouldn't be in the "double digit bank account" dilemma.
DeleteNot long ago someone posted that they contacted the advertisers on her blog questioning why they would choose to pay someone like her to advertise on her website.
DeleteAt least one of the companies had no idea she was still advertising them on her blog. She was doing it for free without the company's knowledge.
That's just one more thing that proves Pig Shocker is a scammer.
She has advertisements on her blog, unbeknownst to the companies, in an attempt to make her look legit.
I don't believe all those ads on her blog are current. I think she just leaves them on there for farm cred. I remember someone on this site called one of the businesses to complain about advertising on her blog and the business said they don't pay for ads on her blog....just more props.
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You're correct that they're not current. Which is duplicitous. It's like her disproportionate amount of followers on Twitter. She wants to appear more popular than she is in reality. Her life is based on lies. And if she really wanted work, then she'd create a professional site. Instead, she only uses DMs for secrecy. JFW is far from being professional. It's all about scamming, not paying legitimate taxes, and asking for handouts by begging.
DeleteIn her latest IG post, Jenna identifies herself as the co-owner of CAF Jackson, NY. Who does she co-own with?
ReplyDeleteGibson, lol. Not my words. Hers. Trying to be cutesy I guess.
DeleteTwitter Twaddle:
ReplyDelete❝ Hey gang! My friend Sara has just launched her pottery on Etsy! Sara's a local potter, bartender, flower farmer and general badass making her name in the world of slinging clay for money. It's nice dirt turned into perfect small things. SHOP NOW! https://www.etsy.com/shop/goldenearthdesigns ❞
Wonder if this is a new plan -- tweet links to promote other people's goods in the hopes that they'll do the same for you? More honest than out-right begging at least. BTW, that chick's pottery prices are inline with the Pig Shocker's in that she wants a lot of money for very little. The planter bowl for $50 is reasonable, but $48 for a single coffee mug? So if you want a set of six, that's almost $300...for six mugs?
She must be living in another universe much like Pig Shocker.
DeleteYou don't make a lot on any type of art sale unless you are extrememly talented or extremely pathetic.
The latter only generates money out of pity for a charity case.
"Just launched" - it looks like Sara's been on Etsy since 2016 and the shop has reviews from at least 2018 (I was interested in the ceramics and not in investigating her claims, so I didn't look too hard. Beautiful work though!). Why lie about such a weird, petty thing? Why not just say "check out my friend Sara's shop"?
DeleteThat is weird but totally P.S.'s m.o.
DeleteShe's a compulsive liar who would lie about what she had for breakfast rather than tell the truth.
So I just went to open her blog and it pops up a log in screen and says it's not available. Anyone else seeing anything weird? has she taken it down?
ReplyDeleteAnon in GA
Worked for me when I just tried it.
DeleteShe is definitely using some personals platform, though-I am not on Instagram so I don’t know how that works, but she welcomed “new followers” and a couple of the comments referred to having found her through the personals.
Since there were no sales in the week or so that was quiet (Could the service been cut off?) I wonder how the October mortgage is getting paid.
Also a small thing but in her personals intro posted kindly above, she says she would “text” the person back. Can one text from a kindle? Because texting from a phone with no service even if you are in town on free WiFi is not possible.
You can certainly text with wifi only - on an iPhone to other iPhones, or using apps such as WhatsApp, which can be downloaded on a Kindle Fire.
Delete*Please do not misconstrue this as me defending her.*
Not at all, thanks for correcting me!
DeleteOne major correction/addition to PoodleDiDooOctober 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM:
ReplyDeleteYou can "accept" as many "gifts" as possible, and you are not responsible for any taxes due on any of these gifts. This is regardless of how much someone wants to "gift" to you. The giver, on the other hand, has to pay gift taxes if they give more than $15,000 per year to a single person.
So, I think you're on to something. She can claim the $12,000 IRS deduction, and then call each of her product sales a gift, thereby not having to declare or pay taxes on ANY of the money she receives. Thus, her income is actually potentially tax free!!! Regardless of how much she receives as gifts! Very clever.
Thank you for the clarification. I think her use of "donations" and repeated requests for sympathy and tokens of encouragement are code words for "gifts" and would thereby be excluded by IRS - up to $15,000.
DeleteOne could argue that she is, in fact, providing a product in exchange for money - in which case the money would be "income" and potentially taxable (at least beyond $12,000) - but I'll bet her wording is very careful. Also, her use of multiple emails for her "business" and multiple PayPal accounts all go towards obfuscation of her true business objectives: using exaggeration, misrepresentation and falsehoods to separate people from their money.
Quite the scam.
https://pocketsense.com/much-money-can-receive-gift-dont-claim-taxes-12383.html
DeleteThe twit writes:
ReplyDelete"I haven't been super active on here lately. Been a rough month and I need to start getting over the hard stuff and start getting this farm safe for October. Going to be making the goal of another cord of firewood delivered and bills paid in 10 days!"
Gee, it must be hard to pay bills when you play all day, binge watch Netflix, use beat-up truck (and gas!) to hunt for raptors, day-drink, ride ponies, obsess over Taylor Swift videos/songs and generally do Fcuk all.
You wouldnt need ANOTHER cord of firewood if you saved it for cold nights instead of burning it cuz you wanted atmosphere you dumbass.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't 'need' firewood at all. She's got a furnace.
DeleteFor those of you who know how to use Instagram, check out JFW's latest Story....
ReplyDeleteThere's a photo of what looks like Jenna from the back hugging a malamute on a scenic overlook. The caption is, "Me and my future malamute pup!"
It's pretty cryptic. The whole photo looks photoshopped. Maybe JFW made it as a way to say she now wants to get a malamute puppy??? It's super confusing, but either way, seems like the purchase of yet another unneeded, incredibly expensive dog is on the horizon! ������
Would love to see this photo.
DeleteYes, she probably wants someone to give her a Malamute puppy.
DeleteThat pic isn't of her and of course she isn't giving photo credit. She hasn't had a new prop in a while, so I'm sure a new dog is at the top of her list. Gotta keep up with the Katz's - I mean Smiths!
DeleteShe already HAD sled dogs, though. Anyone remember Jazz and Annie? Who mysteriously dropped off the blog as soon as she got Gibson? In the same manner that there was nothing to say about Jasper the minute she got Merlin, except when she needed to sell him.
DeleteGibson's a sheepdog, and now she has no sheep, so Gibson isn't doing his part to create the Jenna persona. So it's time to get another prop dog. I expect that she wants a Malamute because it looks like a wolf, and then she can do photos all over social media of her on a horse with a hawk and a "wolf" to look like she's doing badass stuff. As soon as that happens, we'll stop seeing Gibson. He'll have fallen off the face of the earth like her two sled dogs.
okay poodles you know the drill get busy pushing that paypal button Momma wants a new doggie. After all, all Jon Katz has written about for the last 5 weeks is the new incredibly expensive dog he is getting and she WILL NOT be out done by a fellow writer. Why are you people sitting here reading this you need to start donating right now darn it. I knew something was up with her nothing on twitter, nothing in her blog till yesterday and now we know.
ReplyDeleteYep! You nailed it.
DeleteJenna's latest blog post showcases her decline. Girl can't write to save her soul.
ReplyDelete"October has been sweeping by in a rush of winter preparation, mild anxiety, and dutiful progress. I'm not where I want to be as far as firewood, hay, and bills are concerned. But I am where I wanted to be in the way of opportunities, dutiful determination, and work. I have been keeping up with fulfilling at least three orders a day between soap, illustration, and logo work. I am taking on whatever jobs I am offered and already contacted my wood delivery guy to start preparing my second cord. There is hay set aside in a local barn for me. The butcher dates are set. The bad news that the truck's frame is beginning to rust away means I need to start saving for a new used vehicle. (Something reliable and 4wd I can use to go farther than 25 miles from home!) So the month has been getting up, fighting against the entropy of time, and keeping myself moving and sales coming in.
I feel like most of my posts here, at least right now, will be the same sort of checking in. Letting you readers know I am okay but struggling and trying my best to make the next step in the larger plan. That larger plan is selling a new book I am so proud of this house will float. It's about getting my mind and body into the happy, calm, state of a regular runner who isn't afraid of whiskey. It's about loving my dogs, hiking on new trails, making new friends and maybe at some point falling in love before I die. But right now it's just step 100 in the marathon. Thousands ahead of me, but on the path.
Same old stuff she's been writing for the past 10 years...
DeleteBetween yesterday and today, b**** is giving me a headache.
DeleteShe writes she "contacted my wood delivery guy to start preparing my second cord." What does that even mean? Cut wood sits in a pile. There's no long 'process' to start preparing it. You call. They throw wood into pick up truck and deliver it to your doorstep.
Next, she's bragging about fulfilling three orders a day? I call total obfuscation. If that was true, she'd be making a few hundred dollars a day, since logos are 450, drawings are 100 plus and soaps are 6. Let's assume pricey logos aren't being ordered, only soaps are county-fair Disney-style cartoons. That's still 100 plus per day (3000/month). With that, she wouldn't have money worries. But. She. Does.
Last, she bores us to death that her journey is about "getting my mind and body into the happy, calm, state of a regular runner who isn't afraid of whiskey."
A regular runner who isn't afraid of whiskey??? Yeah, most runners I know love poisoning their systems with hard spirits. FFF always makes an issue about alcohol; she clearly has an unhealthy attraction to it.
*and
DeleteThe twit on Twitter.
ReplyDelete"I've been up since 5:30. So far I have caught an escaped pony, mended fence, fed a farm full of animals, ordered $65 worth of frozen quail, and the entire point of today is earning back that $65 and then some to keep the lights on. Looking forward to a nap after I run and write!"
First of all, Merlin escaped again? Animal control needs to be notified. This is dangerous to the pony and the community.
Second, she's feeding a red-tailed hawk, old enough to be set free and catch his own food, $65 custom frozen quail? WTH.
Third, she's up later than most farmers as it is, and four hours later, she's wishing for a nap.
What an incompetent, animal neglecting, money-wasting fake farmer.
So she has no plans to work on soap and logo orders that were paid for months ago?
DeleteExactly. Why doesn't she just fix the goddamn fences? Problem solved. It coulda and shoulda been fixed years ago when she got the $6k for repairs. Obviously didn't spend the money on any of that and it's now biting her on her fat behind.
DeleteCame to say exactly this, PDD! Also, don't forget that running and writing are recreational activities (yes writing is recreational for her, she is no longer a writer that will ever get a book deal after the last debacle) which she will engage in, then take a nap.
DeleteTranslation: wishing $65 magically appears in my bank account for whining about it on Twitter.
I think the soap thing is so funny. Several people have pointed out her soap has to be melt and pour based on the cure time. I'm participating in a charity auction here in a couple of weeks and needed to make some quick soaps to sell. I bought some melt and pour blocks and did 28 bars in about two hours, adding various scents, colors, oatmeal, herbs, etc. Honestly, I think her entire business model is based on making statements no one will fact check, like whether or not firewood needs to be "prepared" or whether her soaps take hours and hours to make. I make my own soap with lye and even THAT doesn't take much longer than melt and pour, just a longer cure time. Sheesh.
DeleteFake Farmer - Yes, she always has to list a dollar amount. She is hoping someone will just send her $65. Actually, she is probably hoping a lot of people just send her $65.
DeleteYeah, she totally counts on people not knowing how things work. Like the soap, the logos, the farming, pigs, etc. And then she can draw stuff out and all, make it sound so mystical and unfamilar... she's such a poser!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhich is why this blog is such a good thing. Most of us have agriculture in our backgrounds, or know enough to know things like you don't tell a wood supplier to start prepping her order. Um, honey? Show me the money. I am quite sure that *all* of your "suppliers* require cash payments from you at delivery. Having hay "set aside" means someone is storing it in their barn, and if you come up with the money you can have it, just like every single other person. Further, on the truck situation- yes, maybe she better do another kickstarter for that one too. My God. I do not know how she can be such a wart on the back of hard working people. More like a boil, the boil that ate Detroit.
DeleteI wonder if her truck will be another "Jenna Dream Vehicle", or if it will actually be something that is practical. Remember, this was her "dream" truck, as it had the aesthetic that she was looking for at the time - a more rugged look to match her rugged farmer persona. An SUV or a new model but smaller truck just won't give her life the same "look" that she is going for.
DeleteSo I expect that if she does manage to get another vehicle, it will be for looks only without a care as to whether or not it is at all practical. She doesn't really need a pickup if she doesn't really have farm animals.
Anon 11:28, laughing because all horse hay is "set aside, that is, put under cover so they don't get wet/moldy.
DeleteBesides, we all know good ol' Pember Patty is probably the only actual farmer willing to sell hay to PS , who's likely burned every hay provider in Washington County - businesses that expect immediate payment (or follow-up payment) after product is delivered.
Wouldn't it be better if PS's customers treated her the way she expects suppliers to treat her? That is, no payment until product (artwork, logo, soap or *cough* meat share) is delivered?
Oh but according to her this morning she had a farm load of animals to feed! 2 pigs, 2 dogs, 2 horses is a farm load?
DeleteRemember back when every few months she'd rattle off a long list of exactly how many animals she had at the time? Not anymore. *crickets*
DeleteThe reason JFW has to have her firewood "prepped" is because her stupid stove only takes 14"
ReplyDeletelogs. I've sold cord wood and always sold 16" lengths as it stacks 4 foot deep in 3 rows( a cord is 4x4x8). Her stove is too small to heat her house but as I remember it was given to her by the Vermont Bun Baker for advertising. She probably has to pay more for the wood to have it cut so short. I don't recall her ever baking anything in the oven of that stove.
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well she sure will now that you brought that up. There will be pictures of something she just pulled from the oven part and will go on and on about how wonderful it was and all of guests there thought so too and she will mention how everything she makes in it ALWAYS comes out wonderful.
DeleteVery true Anon 4:11. What do ya bet it will be her world famous pan pizza?
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Ok, this may be a stupid question, but if she bought 16" lengths of firewood and needs them to be no longer than 14", couldn't she just chop them in half? Isn't that what a feral farmer would do? A "made from scratcher"? Wouldn't someone who posts muscle pics want to show what a strong, badass woman she is?
DeleteShe could just trim with a chainsaw.
DeleteChainsaws (like work) are scary.
DeleteYeah, a small razor is much safer for such a delicate area.
DeleteOh wait, you're talking about firewood? Never mind. 🙃
Interestingly, I am also looking for 2 more facecords of firewood, and so contacted my source today to check on price/delivery fee, as I can't afford it until next week's payday. My supplier said, great, contact me next week once you have $ in hand and if I've got any left it's yours. NOBODY selling firewood this time of year "sets it aside" for an indefinite period, until you "earn up" the cash. I call B.S. And it irks me to no end to hear her talk about feeding a "farm load" of animals when this too is B.S. What livestock? Are they year round? Why is there never a mention of buying feed? And what livestock farmer does not already have a hayloft full of hay heading into Nov? Nobody selling hay is going to put up hundreds of small bales (which she would need to feed the horses alone) and WAIT for you to "earn up" money for hay. Hay is at a premium right now, just like firewood. I work fulltime and also run my own small farm (sheep/poultry), ALONE, as an older woman, w no DONATIONS, and my hay has been stocked since August. I too would like a pickup truck, because I actually need one for livestock, equipment, hay, and feed. But, unlike some inauthentic "farmer/homesteaders/social media presences" I am waiting until I can afford to buy a farm truck outright.
ReplyDeleteReally like what you wrote. All truth.
DeleteI order the big rounds of hay. I'm one of the lucky ones because I do have hay put aside for me but a) I'm a yearly repeat customer whose checks are always good; b) I order 90 rounds every year, and c) I ordered them in MAY.
DeleteSerious begathon season has begun, just in thyme for All Hallows, the best day of the year! Selling bacon by the slice $7 per slice of home cured artisinal CAF grown pig protein. Also selling soap scum, the stuff that don't mold, its great just read the twitter of my idiot sycophants, $ per bubble of scum. And don't forget I have hawk feathers to use as a pen like Ben Franklin used, each feather shed INSIDE my living room, $12 bucks per large feather! Or read the blog an PayPal me for nuthin
ReplyDeleteYup! And it's gonna be interesting to she what stunt she pulls in order to get a new truck like she's wanting. Months ago she asked her foollowers to gift her any spare truck they had lying around. Of course, no one did. A few months after that, she hinted about a cancer scare, and then casually mentioned she might need $10K for an accident that she didn't get into. What's next? Perhaps a tornado that didn't make headlines cuz it only hit her house.
DeleteCAFamatics pop quiz.
ReplyDeleteYou are a feral farmer who has a woodburning stove that takes 14" logs. Cords of firewood are sold in 16" lengths. It costs more to have them cut to a custom length. Do you:
A. Forget about buying firewood when you live on a six acre wooded lot. You harvest your own.
B. Buy the 16" lengths and cut them yourself.
C. Post your annual bitch and whine begfest on the internet because you know some sucker will buy you wood so you don't have to get your lazy a$$ off the sofa while you binge watch Netflix.
Lmao, it's C for sure. Strange she can't figure out how to turn 16" into 14" -- but I guess the only math she's good at is counting any donations she receives.
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ReplyDeleteCan you say I'm a scowling sociopath?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.instagram.com/p/B3-zLxNAlma/
She's so angry. Seriously. I have never seen anyone in charge of animals so angry. She's an over narcissist, in fact, I'd say she needs medical intervention at this point.
DeleteI'm surprised that anyone is fooled by her fake friendliness on Twitter and Instagram. One look at her surly expressions should be an indicator of her mental health or lack thereof. That dead stare and tightly pursed lips are scary.
DeleteNew glasses (frames) I see. I wear glasses 100% of the time (no contacts) and have had the same 2 pairs for the past 8+ years. She buys new every year. If she were a true farmer she would be a lot more frugal, but then what would she do with all that poodle $$$$?
DeleteShe's just trying to look like a hardass. Of course we all know she's not. She tries to be when it suits here and a puss when that suits her. Yes definitely new glasses again.
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DeleteA hunter? Bwahahaha!
The only thing she hunts is leftover donuts from the town's donut cart.
New glasses and the skank is still hideous.
😁😂
She's hideous.
That poor, poor bird. Sure, he may have gotten used to her by now. (How?!?) But he'd certainly rather be far away from her and on his own, now that he's been a full grown adult for SEVERAL YEARS. I understand falconry when it's used responsibly to propagate the species by keeping a juvenile safe from predators and able to transition into an adult better able to survive. I get that.
DeleteBut this unfortunate hawk is now on his 3rd or 4th year of being kept for no reason! And selfishly so with his pathetic work-shy warden using him as a furry eye-catching prop, just to make her Instagram seem more unique.
Seriously, Pig Shocker, let him go already! And BTW, you may want to re-think those glasses if you're trying to find a date. If you nose what I mean.
According to an online elevation map, the fake feral farmer lives at a lowly 787 ft above sea level. HA! So much for her lie about "living on a mountain", unless she means the "base" of the mountain, otherwise known as NOT LIVING ON A MOUNTAIN.
ReplyDeleteAnd, for the record, I also learned that my farm is hundreds of feet above her hovel. I guess you may now call me PoodleDiDoo-of-the-Mountain, so send $$$. PayPal, it means so much to us feral females who reside on mountains.
Lol, Poods-of-the-Mountain! All hail thee!!
DeleteIt's bizarre how she tries to aggrandize and romanticize such little things to further her false narrative. In reality, she lives with just a few constantly escaping animals, at the base of a large hill. Less than a quarter mile from a busy road. Surrounded by 3-4 neighbors that live 200-300 feet away.
But no, she paints it as a feral female farmer living "all alone" on the side of a mountain, in the middle of nowhere!! 🎻
Jenna's move to Instagram is interesting. IG offers a lot of benefits that Twitter doesn't. Jenna has about half the number of IG followers than she does Twitter followers, but there's a much greater likelihood that her IG followers will see her posts, in part because she has a lot of Twitter followers who probably are no longer active on Twitter, in part because many of her Twitter followers may not really be real followers, and in part because IG posts have longer staying power than tweets. A tweet disappears in thirty minutes. IG posts will be seen over a period of 24 hours.
ReplyDeleteOther things about IG that work in JW's favor are 1) she's a better photographer than she is a writer (this has always been true IMHO--she has a good eye and a clumsy pen); and 2) photographs tell better stories than tweets.
I'm guessing that Jenna is banking that a two-pronged strategy (storytelling on IG, selling on Twitter) will be more effective than trying to do both on Twitter (her blog is no longer about stories, other than the story of waking up anxious at 2 a.m.). It's a good thought, but how does she get people who grow to love her on IG over to Twitter for the sales pitch?
One of her problems is, IG is set up to keep people on IG. That's why you can only link to your website (or wherever you want people to go) on your profile page. IG wants people to keep scrolling and to see ads. They don't want people jumping off the app. The other problem is that people may be more resistant to her sales pushes on IG and stop following her. Too much sales talk will spoil the romance of the farm and the the hawks and all of that.
Having read up on Twitter and spamming, Jenna does seem like she's in danger of being considered a spammer: Here's a bit form a Q&A on the website ZClick:
Q. What are two to three things that a business — whether it’s a Fortune 500 or a small-to-medium sized one — should do to avoid being labeled a spammer on Twitter?
A. Businesses must understand why their customers and prospects follow them on Twitter. This is needed to consistently send tweets that are useful to their followers, and avoid being seen as spammy. So what are two things to avoid?
Avoid repetition. This includes tweeting the same or similar messages and links over and over. to a similar message, or linking to a specific webpage over and over. Repetition is often associated with spam. Keeping tweets unique, original, and useful to followers is the recommended strategy.
Avoid over exposure. Keep a balance between the tweets that promote your specific brand and products, and those that do not. Your followers can still find value in your tweets, even if they do not mention your company, products, or services. Just make sure they address the needs and interests of your followers.
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By making Twitter mostly a place for her sales pitches and moving all of her content over to IG, Jenna may be at more risk of being kicked off of Twitter than ever. We shall see.
Anon55
Anon55 here--
Deletere: Tweets disappearing--I mean that figuratively. Tweets are forever, but they sink out of sight pretty quickly.
Did she announce that she was moving everything over to Instagram? I know she's been writing a bit more on IG, but she's still over at Twitter, although she's been rather quiet lately.
DeleteInteresting, the advice from that website: "Businesses must understand why their customers and prospects follow them on Twitter."
She just doesn't get this. They are there to read about someone who's supposed to be farming and homesteading. She's really not doing either. All she does is bitch and moan about not having money and then beg people to "kick in" for her old writings on how she used to do all that.
And of course on Twitter today she said (for the umpteenth time):
❝ Sometime sharing this causes small miracles. So I am sharing it. ❞
Shamelessly trying to guilt some poor sucker into being her 💰 "miracle" 🏧
No announcement to my knowledge, and she's definitely still on Twitter, but mostly just to retweet old tweets about supporting this farm. She also is retweeting the tweets of satisfied customers, of which there have been many as of late.
DeleteBut she seems to have shifted her personal content to IG, where it tends to get a lot more love. But will IG prove a good place to make sales? I'm doubtful, but we shall see.
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So. This whole thing is very distressing.
ReplyDeleteI recently responded to Jenna's ad through a popular queer dating Instagram. I was so excited that there was another farmy queer lady living within 2 hours of me.
I'm feeling very fucked up over this whole thing.
I'd really like to talk to someone privately if that's possible.
DeleteI'd suggest emailing HD.
Delete⬆⬆⬆⬆ what Anon 5:54 said.
DeleteSo. This whole thing is very distressing.
ReplyDeleteI recently responded to Jenna's ad through a popular queer dating Instagram. I was so excited that there was another farmy queer lady living within 2 hours of me.
I'm feeling very fucked up over this whole thing.
I don't understand...did something happen? Did she do something?
DeleteWe want to know what happened?!
DeleteStay away! Jenna is a lazy scam artist living her life on the backs of others. She professes to be a farmer/homesteader, but is neither:
Delete1) Not an animal farmer - the only animals she has are pets for play. She was forced to rehome her livestock in summer 2018 once the powers that be became aware of the squalor she was keeping them in.
2) Not a fruit or vegetable farmer. She grew no garden this year, and to the best I can tell, only grew kale in the past few years.
3) Not a homesteader. Her only "homesteady" activity is selling goat milk soap. Which is melt and pour, of poor quality, and, oh, not made from milk from her own goats! FFS, she doesn't even harvest her own firewood!
Anon 7:27, are you OK? Please share. You have a supportive group here.
DeleteP.B.
I second that. Many of us on this site are here because we felt F-up by Jenna and all of us are here trying to keep a record going of all her shams and to tell a cautionary tale to others who may fall in her web.
DeleteYou do have a most supportive group here who will lend a listening ear and a shoulder, and share our own stories as well.
I just thought that I'd found a kindred spirit. I have a really hard time making friends and connecting with people. I'd devoted my life to livestock a few years ago with the intent to homestead and/or farm if I found the right people to do that with. I'm an apprentice farmer being taught by actual seasoned professionals, not a scrappy greenhorn DIYer just trying their luck with animals' lives on the line.
DeleteI'm distraught that we live in a culture that would allow someone to live like this, and prop up a sham that's an illusion of the work that I'm out here doing every day.
But mostly I'm most distraught by my own habits of isolation and misanthropy. I'm worried that this could be me one day.
Anyway, I've blocked her. Last thing I need is her stealing my photos. Yes, I know she's reading this. Hi Jenna, please stop raising livestock.
Anon 727: Thanks for sharing your story and you are welcome here. Jenna is nothing but a animal abusing liar and scammer, out for herself and what she can put over on people. At least you found out early and havent devoted much time to her. She will waste it. Her lifestyle is nothing but a sham and she is as dishonest as the day is long. Feel free to read this site and you will uncover all the garbage and lies she has tried to pull off over the years. Hope we hear from you more.
DeleteAlso you wont end up like her. She is like she is because she has burned many, many bridges and the locals dont want to deal with her. Word gets around.
DeleteHmm. I think that there are more people out there than we realize who are more comfortable with animals than with other humans, and sometimes there are good reasons for that! And a rural life, on a real farm, can definitely be isolating, which is why most people don't attempt it until they have someone in their life -- either a romantic partner or a business one. Jenna's life is playing out the way it is because of her very public choices and way she makes a living, which is off other people's spare cash, selling an idea and often products that are NOT at all what they seem. The animal neglect is basically a sidelight of her core immaturity -- logically, you'd think that if she's only surrounded with animals, their care would be the most important thing to her, not public attention, not pop singers and streamed TV shows, and not creating an image in print that isn't real for the sake of financial gain. If this sounds alarmingly like you, then of course take the steps you need to be self-sufficient without soliciting "donations" from strangers. But I'm guessing that is NOT you, so keep working at your dream until you make it a reality. Lots of people like you HAVE achieved the dream of having their own homestead or farm, but the most successful ones were patient and worked very hard until it happened. You're already doing the right thing in spending time learning from farm experts in your interning job; Jenna never did any of this (why should you when you can just proclaim yourself an expert after a few months and start writing a book on the topic?) and I think what you see is the result of her cutting corners and refusing to wait for the right time to 1) buy a farm, 2) quit her job and 3) collect more and more animals with no visible means of supporting them and herself.
DeleteAnon 727, FWIW, you don't sound anything like Jenna. Though I never met her, I had a few brief exchanges with her years ago, she quickly became nasty, combative and threatening when she didn't get what she wanted. I don't think she ever worried about another person's feelings or the quality of life she gave her animals. You don't sound anything like that, you might be the opposite. I hope you find some good friends soon who share your values. I can see how meeting someone like Jenna would make you feel like you needed a bit of brain bleach.
DeleteHmmm. "Nasty, combative and threatening". Sounds like lovely dating material to me. Male or female...run like the devil is behind you, 'cause she will be.
DeleteIt's no wonder why she's still single. No one wants a "nasty, combative and threatening" mate. Whether they're straight or gay. I can't see her ever finding a permanent partner. JFW is almost forty, and has never had an enduring romance. If she had it would've been mentioned years ago. She would've bragged about it in her blog.
DeleteAnon727, you sound like a kindred spirit. Farmers/ranchers share a special affiliation for the land, for nature, animals and quiet conditions. We often like our own company and pursue individual or single hobbies. We can be with people - or not - and often get energized by our own company or with a few close friends.
DeleteBeing an introvert and not connecting with a lot of people doesn't make you like the Faux Feral Farmer. Thank goodness, few people are like her. She is self-centered, narcissistic, callow, abusive and a user. Readers have debated if she is a sociopath or psychopath. Clearly, her "core" personality was established many years ago, and she enjoys misleading people and scamming attention, gifts and money from them.
Normal people just don't understand her kind of behavior. We are wired to think the "best" of people, that people are not deliberately trying to lie and cheat.This is why con artists and scammers succeed, and this is why this blog exists - to warn others about online scamming.
Keep on with this blog and with the people who frequent it. Keep meeting legitimate farmers. There is a ton of experience on Cold Antler Sham Truths, and we're more than happy to share information. Use HD as a private sounding board or if you want to connect locally.
Lastly, I guarantee the FFFs of this world are few and far between. Her scams are sufficient low-level that she has frankly slipped between the cracks of the Internet. No matter. Karma is real and the truth will be found out, sooner or later.
Happy you decided to join our family of truth seekers and truth tellers!
Very well said, PPP, I applaud you!
DeleteAlso honorable mention to HFH and Redhorse, you both gave me a lot of insight into JFW.
DeleteThanks Jesse! And kudos to you, PDD. You said it perfectly above.
DeleteThanks HFH and Jesse, and kudos to Anon727 and everyone looking out for others. To tell the truth, I can't take credit for anything. I was actually taken in by JW, but I had a sister who is a lot like her (and also an alcoholic ), and I learned that some of her begging and tales of woe were scams. So I asked a couple of innocent questions, like when could she get a job, and why would you take on the purchase of a pony you couldn't afford? And OMG, she even threatened to report me to the police for bullying. I've made comments about JW's future being bleak, and those are based on my sister's life, who is now in her 60's. I'm not a fortune teller. I've seen what happens.
DeleteThank you so much for all of the encouragement and affirmation.
DeleteIf any other farmy New York folks want to connect, you can find me on Instagram. I recently used the hashtag #sprinklesGOS, so you can find me if you search that. I post a lot of pigs. And I won't scam you.
Also, just so that this whole experience is not a total waste, I've gone and found a chainsaw class I can take this winter, which my employer will pay for. Thanks for the inspiration.
DeleteAnon 727... your instagram seems to be reported. Did she do you in?
Delete"Top posts from # sprinklesgos are currently hidden because the community has reported some content that may not meet Instagram's community guidelines. Learn more"
Holy shit. Okay. Try #CholulaRW instead and hope you get to it before she does.
DeleteAnon727. Beautiful photos. Thank you for sharing!
DeleteAnon727 - So glad you found us! And thank you for sharing your story. Don't feel bad, as a lot of us were fooled by her initially. I stumbled across her about two years ago on the reddit website. She posted a thread about her charmed lifestyle and when I clicked on her Instagram and blog, I was really impressed with the pics of homesteading and falconry.
DeleteBut then I continued reading the reddit post where things went south real quick. Others began to call out all her lies, and then I found this great site, which puts all her bullshit out in the open. Very glad cuz I'm sure I would have felt sorry for her and donated at some point.
You sound like a lovely person. And don't worry, you'll be nothing like her, as she lacks the self-awareness that you possess. Plus, she appears to be a psycho who thinks it's funny to shock pigs. So worry not.
We hope you stick around!
Darn...I missed the photos on those hashtags. Both are now hidden.
DeleteSo did the Pig Shocker really report her? But then, who else would? Wow. How petty.
Search for the account cholularw, click on the one photo that appears, click on her name, all the other photos then become available.
DeleteWow, Anon727 is a serious farm gurl for sure! Congratulations!
On IG for CholuluRW "no results found" I don't know... I'm probably not doing it right.
Delete(I'm Anon 5:57 a.m.) OK I found it, but IG says: "Top posts from # cholularw are currently hidden because the community has reported some content that may not meet Instagram's community guidelines."
DeleteI'm Anon 5:57 & 5:59. This makes me think that PS is reporting her because just last night PDD said "beautiful pictures." Now just this morning, the account is "reported." But PS doesn't read here or harass anyone. pppppffffftttttt
DeleteI couldn't even locate the account now. Jenna is just jealous of her pics. And I'm sure that she has this site bookmarked, and often refreshes it for current comments.
DeleteI don't get it either. I typed it what was suggested, and "no results" came up. I'm adept at searches, so don't know what went wrong.
DeleteYeah, #CholulaRW is not available to view anymore. Something is sure up. How weird this is? How can someone get reported so quickly and easily and removed? Time to start reporting Miss COldantler....
DeleteVery weird. I agree. Posts are gone now. There wasn't anything inappropriate on cholularw's IG posts. There were many "farm life" photos of Anon727's farm, pigs, beef, chickens and sheep. In fact, there were so many photos, she looks like a seasoned farmer and rancher. Much better than the small-time, animal abusing fake farmer often discussed.
DeleteGood for cholularw. She should definitely complain if she was harassed and her IG site removed for nefarious reasons.
Instagram Idiot:
ReplyDelete"Good morning luckless swingers and distance swallowers! Get out there and do your thing."
I think that she meant "slingers" not "swingers," and "distance swallowers" sounds sleazy. Often her language salads make no sense at all. It makes one wonder about the "THERE'S A CHANCE THIS IS WHISKY," post too. She posted both this morning. I wouldn't be surprised if her coffee is spiked with alcohol.
OMG. She actually posted that? To me this screams of her um, sexual frustration. On first blush she appears to be appealing to others like her.
DeleteIt smacks of "sexual frustration" and also alcoholism. She's already deleted the "luckless swingers" post, but the "WHISKEY" one remains. Once that she read my comment, she probably realized how stupid it sounded. This has happened before. I think that she has this site bookmarked, and refreshes it to see what we've written. LOL!!!
DeleteWhat is a "distance swallower"? Is that someone who swallows distance, or swallows at/from a distance? And if it is either if those... What do those mean??
DeleteShe throws weird words together and hopes that they work. Unfortunately, she's not skillful enough of a writer to pull it off.
DeletePersonally I think its probably the result of reading too many horse books as a youngster. That phrasing is very common in popular horse racing young adult books (like The Black Stallion series). Example: "The Black galloped, swallowing the distance between them with each thundering step"
DeleteThe phrase makes plenty of sense as a verb. None at all as a noun.
Twit Shit:
ReplyDelete"I so so love that us liberals ended up with Taylor and conservatives got Kanye. SO, so love."
Yeah, "us liberals" can't also like Kanye. And conservatives all loathe Taylor. Her thinking process is stupid and illogical.
Arrested development was my first thought. This gal is nearly middle aged. Why the teenage obsession with celebrities?
DeleteShouldn't it be "we liberals"?
DeleteYes, it should be "we liberals." I was going to mention it, too. Her "teenage obsession with celebrities" has been going on for a long time. Sometimes it almost borders on cyber-stalking. I've said for awhile that JFW is still stuck at around age 14 when it comes to crushes.
DeleteShe certainly is stuck in her teens, and I would feel sorry for her if it wasn't for her scamming and mistreatment of animals. That behavior is inexcusable, no matter what.
DeleteIt amuses me to no end that the Pig Shocker adores and obsesses about Taylor, who would no doubt be creeped-out by the likes of a crazy-eyed and repulsive middle-aged fan who begs for her mortgage payment on the internet. And Jenna, no matter how many times you tweet @ her, she's never going to call you up to go on a falcon hunt. Nor is Hollywood going to do a movie about your scrappy feral life. Keep dreaming.
DeleteIt made me smirk when she constantly courted TS last hear to hawk hunt with her: "Upstate New York has endless sweaters for days!!!" (That's a literal quote.) Right. The only suckers who would go with her might be local weirdos desperate for friendship.
DeleteI meant to type "year" not "hear." It's time for my morning cup of coffee to wake up!
DeleteJenna Woginrich
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I don't even have half that and mute people every day. It's the best feature in the world.
Aside from solidarity to a larger account that has online woes... do you ever wonder why she has to mute people EVERY DAY?
Yeah, there are a lot more burned Jennafans out there then you imagine. If only they would find us here! Whoee! Crazy... only 4K and she has to block people daily. Think about it.
I agree Farmlass. She has to get a lot of resistance to her begging and bull shit by twitter
Deletefollowers but she only allows responses that flatter her fat ego.
P.B.
I think that many of her followers have JFW muted. It's to avoid seeing her daily shameful begging, and frantic focus on female celebrity worship.
Delete😱 Is that why she mutes them? I thought she meant that she mutes people who are boring or annoying. It didn't occur to me that she's muting people who are calling her out on her bullshit. But I'd believe it, as it makes much more sense!
DeleteShe made a ridiculous comment to a comment about working for someone else and she ended it by saying " ..But I have yet to fire myself." Jenna, you should fire yourself. Finances in the often non-working toilet, animals mistreated by someone in charge who doesn't even realize it and is "keeping each month moving" by begging, rudeness etc. Let someone else run that once lovely property. FIRE YOURSELF. DO THE RIGHT THING.
ReplyDeleteShe should fire herself for her sheer stupidity. Year after year she barely scrapes by and has now been reduced to online panhandling to survive. Too stupid to swallow her pride and get a job. No, she'd rather beg strangers to pay her mortgage. What a stupid unsustainable plan.
DeleteIronically, even if she applied again for a gig doing graphic art at a business, it's very likely that they wouldn't hire her. She's been away too long, probably has a dated skill-set, and has hostility towards any authority figures (mostly male). That wouldn't bode well for future employment. And if they did their due diligence, then her rotten reputation would ruin any prospects.
DeleteHey, Luckless Slinger - and wouldn't HR love hiring a middle-aged employee who makes a point of gender harassment (holding open doors for elderly men while calling them "gorgeous") and apparently using social media to cyber-stalk younger celebrities and actresses??
DeletePDD. Your comment, literally, made me laugh out loud. Yeah, she who is overly sensitive about any perceived "gender harassment" wouldn't be a prime candidate for consideration. Also add in the animal abusing, and almost daily online begging for to support herself. JFW would be most employers' nightmare.
DeleteI made a mistake while typing too fast: "begging to support herself."
Delete"What a wonderfully rainy Sunday. What a day to order some mint snowflake chunky soaps for the holidays?! These are $6 a bar and made with goatsmilk, hand-picked and dried mint from the farm, olive and coconut oil! DM to order!"
ReplyDeleteThere's no need for a question mark in her second stupid sentence. Her usual "DM to order!" is only to avoid having a professional site, and also for evading paying taxes.
What's up with the steep price increase? Those 3 tiny soaps barely equal a normal sized bar that she sells for $6. I don't remember her original price...it may have been $5.50 for all 3...but now she wants $6 per each? Good luck with that.
DeleteThe hubby and I went to Vermont today and on the way home took a ride up Colfax Road. I thought his head was going to spin around. There is a shitload, and I mean SHITLOAD, of wood less than a mile from her house. It is all up and down that road...blowdown, cleared areas, you name it. There is absolutely no reason she should have to ask for money to buy firewood. If she had been picking up just a truck full each day this spring and summer, she would have more than enough for the winter.
ReplyDeleteCM. We all know here that it's just an excuse to beg for more money from dumb enablers. We live in Vermont now, and have seen a lot of free firewood lately.
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DeleteNot to mention temperatures in Veryork have been in the 50s-60s. What idiot uses up precious wood by operating a wood burning stove in this sort of weather?
Delete(*Removed previous post because auto correct changed my correct word to a nonsensical word. Algorithm better get its act together! )
Thanks for taking one for the team, Chicken Mama! Hopefully your olfactory systems survived driving past her hovel.
DeleteSo there it is, she's too lazy to bend over and pick up free firewood. Although, I like the other theory that she does grab it, but then pretends to not have any so she can beg for money to spend on the latest Taylor Swift merchandise.
FCW, how quickly I forget. lol
Delete🌲❓Oddball question about rural firewood providers: Just where do they get all that wood to sell? A few months ago, Jon Katz mentioned he buys his firewood cords from a man who has been in business for over 40 years, cutting and selling firewood. I was thinking that perhaps he lives on a property of several hundred acres, but even if he used sustainable practices (as opposed to clearcutting), trees don't grow that fast. Plus there couldn't be that many trees on his property that would allow 40 years of timber, right? (Provided he planted a few new tress for every one felled.)
ReplyDeleteSo does he go into unincorporated woods and just fell trees? Or perhaps he contacts people with large acre properties and makes a deal to harvest logs for a cut of the profits? I don't really know how to find an answer to this question, but since a lot of you buy firewood cords in rural areas, I'm hoping someone here knows the answer. 🙂
I have burned wood for over 40 years here in Iowa and have never purchased any. I live on a medium-sized farm with various tracts of woods that have trees die or get hit by lightning. The fellow you are wondering about may be like us, ...since wood needs to be seasoned a year or so before burning I'm thinking that may be it. Also he may have permission to clean up other area farmers' deadfall...lots of times a farmer wants it gone but doesn't have the time to mess with it...(a REAL farmer that is!). I can bet he does not go into unincorporated woods and just fell trees...that wouldn't last long as an occupation!
DeleteWood heat is the best!! I love it...so warm and it lasts after the fire is out if you have an airtight stove or fireplace insert (I have both) and and insulated house.
Thanks for the info! That's amazing, not having to purchase wood in 40 years. The Pig Shocker could learn a lesson from that.
DeleteI miss living in a home with a fireplace. But they're not all that standard here in Southern California. And even if you have one, it's usually too hot to use it!
I live in the West, and out here you can get a permit to cut wood in state/federal forest. It is for standing dead or deadfall. We have TONS of forest here. The guy that recently delivered my firewood and he (and his father who taught him) make a living on doing that. He probably also clears roads after storms and private contract work.
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Great info, Duck Mama! Collecting wood via permit seems like a win-win for everyone involved. If the permits are reasonable (for the wood seller) the state gets low cost labor to manage forests, the firewood cord sellers obtain their inventory at a bargain, and the folks who consume the wood probably get a great deal. This is all so interesting.
DeleteA well managed woodlot can provide a cord or more per acre yearly by sustainably thinning trees. I have about 6 acres of wooded property that we have been removing unwanted species, and trees with defects. We cut about 5 cords of wood yearly to sell in small bundles of firewood for campers.
ReplyDeleteWood can be got from logging sits on public or private timber land with permits. Tree services often sell wood from trees they remove. Then there's the poachers who illegally cut prime wood in the national forest and sell it...they piss me off. Anyway, anyone with a saw and a work ethic can cut and sell wood, at least here in Oregon.
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P.B.
Thanks for the info, P.B. Permits for harvesting private timber land makes the most sense. Interesting to know!
DeleteAnd I've heard about the poachers. I love the Pacific Northwest and at one point, I really got into reading all about sustainable forestry, clearcutting, as well the fascinating story of Julia Butterfly Hill, Pacific Lumber Mill, Maxxam and the despicable waste of life that is Charles Hurwitz who deserves to contract every STD possible.
And while I was living in Northern California, I learned of poachers who would sneak into the forests to cut and steal away massive burl wood slabs to sell to woodworkers. Last I heard, all the honest and responsible ones were demanding proof of where the slabs came from, otherwise they refused to buy. I also heard that most of the poachers were tweekers who were violating these beautiful old growth trees in order to finance their meth habits. Such a shame so many trees were damaged due to these selfish wankers.
Just noticed: The recent truck photo she posted on Instagram (with hay and Gibson), she slapped an Argyle Brewery sticker on her back window, lol. Oh, Pig Shocker...seriously? 😆 😂
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for a customized, queer bumper-sticker like: "FUCK THE INTERNALIZED PATRIARCHY!!!"
DeleteLol, and with two lesbian equestrian werewolves with rifles.
DeleteRifles? It's gotta be spears or bow & arrows! LOL
DeleteAs a soap maker I’m offended by her soap. If she were making them with mint “hand cut and dried on the farm” that soap would have green flecks in it. It also would NOT smell like mint or have the fresh/cool menthol feeling because the saponification process in soap making nulls 99% of herbaceous smells. You can’t really scent soap w/plants. If she steeped the mint in the oils first, still no scent, but also no flecks. Also if those bars are 50/50 olive oil and coconut, that’s not an ideal soap (but a cheap one to make). Probably lathers well but would be a very soft (gone quickly), skin drying, bar. She also doesn’t follow any of the rules required to sell soap. No ingredients proper, weight, etc... I thought she made lard soap because she’s a pig farmer?
ReplyDeleteAs a person who bathes, I'm also offended by her soap. It sounds like at one time, she really did try to make a quality product with her own goat's milk. And now, she's supposedly buying goat milk from others? Highly doubtful. Especially when she's always begging for money. You just know that any donations she receives goes to booze, and not to quality soap ingredients.
DeleteI once made a joke about how any green flecks found in her soaps must be old spinach she picked from her teeth. But womp womp, no one found that very amusing. Seriously though, I'll bet you're right. If anything, any green flecks found in her soaps are probably tiny clippings from her lawn. That lawn that she poops on when the toilet is broken.
Seriously would you buy SOAP from someone like Jenna who supposedly never bathes?
DeleteI wouldn't use her "scrappy" soap if it were offered for free.
DeleteTwitter Twaddle:
ReplyDelete"I want what they have."
She's referring to a card with two dogs howling at the moon. I guess that's how she envisions a fierce, feral romance to look like. What a weird way to view a human connection. So maybe her potential partner will poop on her lawn, too.
So interesting that she pulled the Moon card (by the way, that looks like a new deck).
ReplyDeleteInterpretation from Tarot Teachings: "The dog is a symbol of our tamed mind which is loyal to our bidding. The wolf is a symbol of our primal urges and bears its teeth at our every attempt to be conventional. Neither beast is all bad nor all good - but they both war with each other in our minds. Hence each is on either side of our path. One yapping at us to "do the right thing" the other growling at us to "break out and go wild." All the while the Moon has her own ideas about what we should be doing.
Interpretation from the Secrets of the Tarot: "In the Major Arcana series of the Tarot, the number 18 is associated with The Moon card, which points the possible negative outcome of being aligned with number 18."
From Read Tarot: "Short meaning: The overall theme of this card is that in the low light of the moon, things aren't always what they appear to be."
She's enthralled by the picture on the card and not what it represents.
" ..But I have yet to fire myself."
ReplyDeleteMakes me think...had she been fired from her previous job, or was about to be?
I'm beginning to wonder if her stubborn refusal to get a job means she knows she cannot get a job. Prospective employers want to know work history and will follow up with previous employers. She may have had poor reviews and a "would not rehire" history.
ReplyDeleteIf that is the case, then she should work twice as hard at building up a sterling reputation as a self employed graphic artist. Instead she falls back on old habits of taking money, not providing product and shameless begging.
That's probably a big part of it. When she made the decision to become a public person, I don't think she realized that it means you are open to criticism as well as praise. And then openly blogging about shocking pigs and other animal abuses, did she not think it would result in a bad reputation that would follow her around? If I were her I'd change my name for starters, as one of the first things a lot of employers do is an internet search. She's screwed.
DeleteCan anyone share that priceless YouTube vlog where the fake feral farmer repeatedly stressed how much she HATES HATES working for others?
ReplyDeleteThe video snippet of her "shared feelings" on employment should definitely be part of her job-hunting CV, lol.
PDD. Anon7 is often our archivist. I'll bet that she can find it. And I know that previous employees have HATED having her as a grudging, graphic designer. She'd be one of those weirdos who writes her name in caps on containers in the communal fridge, and then becomes overly annoyed if a co-worker takes it.
DeleteI meant to type "employers" not "employees." I made another mistake. Clearly, I'm having one of those days, or maybe it's a "middle-aged moment."
Delete✅ 🎞 Alright...you guys owe me one for this, as I had to watch two videos before I found it. I had to watch her face move and listen to that voice. Anyway, here it is...and the rant in question starts right at the 6:49 minute mark:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVOnMfkYtk
And in case anyone is wondering, she says "hate" 15 times. We get it. You're lazy.
Yes, fifteen times the word hate is used. I thank you for going through the pains to find this. I was pained watching it, I had to fast forward through her diatribe to get to the part about hating to work for others. She messed up that sentence though (must be the whiskey). She meant to leave it at "hate to work".
DeleteAnon7, you're right. We owe you bigly. I can't even get through ONE of her smug videos, and you plowed through two!
DeleteListening to her trying to appeal to "weirdos" makes me realize how much she fancies herself to be the pied piper of disaffected and wannabe rurals. As with everything she does, she aggrandizes normal hobbies and interests into oh-so-special pastimes. Yeah, right... like she is the first person to raise chickens, or keep animals, or grow a garden.
No, Pig Shocker, it's not weird if people are interested in (or practice) rural living, knitting, animal husbandry, home brewing or a multitude of related skills and interests. Millions of people perform these pastimes daily. In 2019, for example, 1.2 million people home brew. 70 million people have a garden.
However, the difference between PS and others is that most people plan, prepare and learn from mistake so they become reasonably proficient in their hobbies. She does not.
She jumps headfirst into her latest interest without preparation, remains ill-prepared throughout, doesn't care about collateral damage and astoundingly fancies herself an expert when she's barely scratched the surface.
She's a cautionary tale: how NOT to raise animals, run a home-based business, homestead or operate a small farm. May she soon cease owning the unfortunate livestock she owns and neglects in her neurotic quest for social media attention.
Well said PDD. And thanks Anon7!
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Once again, PDD, We’ll Said! And thank you anon 7!
DeleteI was raised on a farm, but never had the desire to be a farmer and struggle financially the way my parents and my grandparents struggled. I applaud true family farms though, it’s not an easy life, you really have to be on the ball, always looking for that next money making crop or trend.
With that being said, I am somewhat of a prepper (it’s ingrained in my blood) and I raise some herbs and veggies, mixed in with our flowers gardens. I do doubt we’d survive a zombie apocalypse though ;) But the thing that struck me right off the bat with JFW is how HELPLESS she is and how much she depends on outside assistance for her day to day needs. She sure is not in the position to be teaching! Just her attitude about livestock care alone is enough to make you shudder! My parents value their livestock above all else, they’re an investment in future income, any animal lost, right down to newly hatched chicks, is one animal too many to lose and they do everything in their power to ensure the safety of their livestock.
Jesse - You nailed it. Helpless is right. For all her posturing about being independent and making it on her own, she is totally dependent on others. When she moved to Cambridge, she had a lot of help from neighbors and it's apparent she thought it would last forever. Same with internet donors. She depends on them for day to day living.
DeleteNotice that her fans are not farmers. The followers that were farmers offered her helpful advice which she shot down over and over. She either blocked them or they left long ago. She would be insulted if someone gave her advice or pointed out a better (or the correct) way to do something.
I once offered her advice on how to keep wood dry. You would think I had just slung a horrible insult at her.
DeleteIt started because she wrote about buying packaged wood at a convenience store. She got a lot of comments asking why she would buy convenience store wood when, a) she had a woodlot and b) she could get it a lot cheaper by the cord.
She shot back that she needed wood that was super-dried because she couldn't keep wood dry. A lot of people offered helpful advice, including me, because we actually had experience doing so!
Anyway, she wrote something like "I know what I'm doing, guys", which meant either she really didn't or her way of doing things was to beg from strangers, then take the easy path.
Yea it's called a tarp Jenna. Or store it somewhere that has a roof. Of course this is someone who left hay out in the rain and complained it got ruined. Typical dumbass.
DeleteBTW: "Guys?!" I've been wanting to say this for awhile. If it's not obvious yet, I often use a few different names here. I've always appreciated online identity variety. So "Luckless Slinger," Failed Cubicle Worker, "Earn Up Money" etc... are several of my monikers. I hope that it doesn't drive anyone nuts. I find it fun.
ReplyDeleteThey're all good names. "Luckless Slinger" is perhaps my favorite so far!
DeleteToo funny!!
DeleteThat's cool. Gotta say, there were times in the past where I thought that FCW and EUM seemed to have the same sentiments. Doesn't bother me...go for it! 😀
DeleteThis clown needs an enema!
ReplyDeleteStill very quiet on Twitter...maybe she's actually doing something!? GASP
ReplyDeleteUnlikely.
Has anyone else been reporting her constant Twitter spam? I've been pretty diligent with it and wondering if that has something to do with it.