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| dsimas |
Posted - Nov 22 2008 : 10:11:02 PM
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I look forward to restoring it to it's original purpose, rather than a storage building. The new siding just arrived from the sawyer and the work starts tomorrow. I have been milking in it for about 3 weeks now, for the first time in decades for this barn. I've written below the Epilogue in my The Family Cow book. Just substitue "goat" for "pig" in the text. Our little barn has a stall and two stachions for goats, and one stall and one stanchion for a cow, and the feed room, it is 340 square feet. I just got in tonight with my Grandpa's 1953 Coleman lantern (nothing modern is better) and a pail of milk from Ruthie the goat.
:) Dawn
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Wealth is a barn full of hay, a few hundred pounds of grain and a cow giving down her milk while cats weave restlessly, ready to spring to the dish by the door. That reminds me: Don't bother to teach cats how to catch a squirt direct from the spigot. They'll never leave you alone then. I had one cat worked into a routine where she could get a squirt if she meowed, licked her paw and bit my left arm--in that order. I had a damned sore arm before she unlearned her lesson. It served me right.
It's more fun seeing if I can squirt my son Wim when he peeks over the side of the shavings bin. There's a tough angle on that shot, but I got him the other night--got him good--and he laughed.
Tonight it's snowing, and the white triangles are pointing up the black cold beyond each window pane. Gusts of wind shearing past the north gable make the rafters creak, like winter shifting in her sleep. But the old barn's alive again within.
A pig grunts, grudging another's right to push in where the pine shavings are deep and dry. How many pigs and cats and calves has this old barn seen in her years--and women and men and boys or girls sitting here in this same corner milking? Some of their names are carved on the faces of the beams and doors around the barn. Some of the same and other names are carved on stones, erect and fallen, up there on the hill behind the house.
I wonder if any of them were "into" cows. Was it all a chore? Or were there lucky people like me who for unexplainable reasons found that raising a few animals, a garden of vegetables and especially a cow, was somehow "into" them?
--Dirk van Loon
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| daylily |
Posted - Mar 12 2009 : 07:44:15 AM
Very cool Dawn!
I'm envious that you have a barn AND goats! I just love them! Have you made cheese yet?
Sent you an email, we're neighbors of sort...
Chris
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| Brew Crew |
Posted - Mar 10 2009 : 2:34:09 PM
Oh my goodness....I have barn envy.
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| crafter |
Posted - Mar 10 2009 : 08:14:14 AM
Dawn-
I LOVE YOUR BARN! So much history. Enjoy restoring your special barn.
xoxo- Lori
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| frolicnfibers |
Posted - Mar 09 2009 : 8:48:41 PM
Your barn looks wonderful. We are building a new one, but I always wanted an "old one" instead :) Good luck with it!
Diana
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| sjs |
Posted - Mar 09 2009 : 8:24:44 PM
I love old barns! This is just great.
Stephanie, Farmgirl Sister #513!
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| Maryjane Lee |
Posted - Mar 09 2009 : 6:46:58 PM
Great barn filled with goodness!
Hugs,
Maryjane Lee
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| lilliesfarm |
Posted - Mar 07 2009 : 9:48:42 PM
The barn is wonderful. Thanks for sharing the pics.
God bless |
| homesteaderbelle |
Posted - Dec 06 2008 : 11:39:15 AM
Thanks for sharing pictures of your barn. The barn looks nice!
Belle
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| Alee |
Posted - Dec 03 2008 : 3:23:26 PM
I love that barn! It's adorable!!! I hope you post pictures of the work and the finished product! I bet it will look fabulous!
Doesn't it feel great to do something that you know your forebearers did/probably did?
Alee
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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 03 2008 : 1:31:37 PM
Me too.. I love it.. I do not have a barn either and I love old barns. * I almost have a chicken hotel...working on that decorating project before chickens arrive.Dh promised to finish it before Dec 19 this month.... I plan to do a wall of old wooden barns on my familyroom wall when I get around to decorating in there..Maybe next spring.
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Cheryl #309
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| country lawyer |
Posted - Dec 03 2008 : 09:45:08 AM
I love your barn too! And your words! |
| Marcy |
Posted - Nov 27 2008 : 08:47:12 AM
Very-very cute! Thanks for sharing.
Farmgirl #170
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| mandymcar |
Posted - Nov 27 2008 : 06:46:38 AM
Be sure you take some before and after pictures. We have restored 2 barns and it is fun to look back. |
| marcy jo |
Posted - Nov 25 2008 : 2:13:31 PM
Dawn your barn is so wonderful!! I want one so bad!! For now, I have taken to calling my shed a barn!! The lamb and the rabbits live in there and so does all the feed!! Guess its more of a barn than a shed!!!!
Marcy #257
When I stand before God at the end of my life I hope that I would not have a bit of talent left and could say “I used everything You gave me”.(erma bombeck) |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Nov 24 2008 : 07:10:49 AM
Dawn, How lucky you are to have a barn. We have a big white metal bldg. It is a shop, not a barn. When I get barn sick (home sick), I go to my son's place. He lives on my Dad's farm. It has a real barn. If there is anyplace I would rather be after the garden, it would be in the barn. |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Nov 23 2008 : 6:16:13 PM
How wonderful your barn is being used the way it was intended too. Have fun restoring it! Best of luck to you.
Dawn in IL |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 23 2008 : 4:49:00 PM
I could just live in a barn. They are so neat. So much history, too. And it has stanchions already in it? How convenient for you. You can start training your little calf to go into it now. Just start feeding her there and she'll know where to go when the time comes.
Kris |
