Book Beginnings: Get Your Pitchfork On

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name.

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MY BOOK BEGINNING

So, you want to move to the country.

-- from the author's Introduction to Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living by Kristy Athens. 

After all the expensive massages, lavender footbaths and boxes of herbal tea that I had acquired as an urbanite, I loved that in the country all I had to do to relax was look around me -- the sun setting over the Cascades; the trickle of water flowing through the woods; the juncos shuffling around in the snow looking for fallen thistle seeds and leaving little footprints on the deck.

-- from "Land," the first chapter.

This is terrific! It is a practical, no-nonsense guide for urbanites who want to go live in the country -- and don't we all have those fantasies every now and again?

Thanks go to intrepid publicist, Mary Bisbee-Beek for my copy.  This is right up my Food Freedom alley!