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Dirtduchess
True Blue Farmgirl

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Patsy
Decatur TX
USA
693 Posts

Posted - Nov 08 2014 :  3:28:52 PM  Show Profile
It is about 15 miles to our local Walmart. Took the back roads this morning which is about five miles more. So much prettier.

Patsy
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

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Sara
Paris TX
USA
6918 Posts

Posted - Nov 08 2014 :  3:36:48 PM  Show Profile
Old abandoned Texas houses have always casted a spell over me. I think about what it must have been like for the woman who lived there. Such a tiny house in your picture. Her life must have been a hard one. Hope she had a few flowers next to the front porch that she watered with the dish water.

Thanks Patsy for sharing the picture with us and giving me a chance to let my imagination go down that back road with you.

Sara
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl

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Winnie
Gainesville Fl
USA
6592 Posts

Posted - Nov 08 2014 :  4:28:33 PM  Show Profile
I agree with you Sara. Whenever I see these old abandoned houses, I always wonder who lived there and how many children they had and did they have enough to eat. So many stories locked up in those beams!

Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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ceejay48
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CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores Colorado
USA
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Posted - Nov 08 2014 :  4:29:14 PM  Show Profile  Send ceejay48 a Yahoo! Message
Thanks Patsy! We have lots of mountain backroads here, with all kinds of old buildings.
CJ

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nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl

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Heather
Wapakoneta Ohio
USA
3078 Posts

Posted - Nov 09 2014 :  12:51:12 PM  Show Profile
Love the back roads!! We don't have many abandoned houses around here, but there are lots of barns that aren't being used any more. I always wonder what it must have looked like "back when..."

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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl

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Grace
WACAL Gal WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Nov 14 2014 :  8:01:30 PM  Show Profile
I LUV Back Roads drives,, you just never know what you will come upon!


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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl

5216 Posts

Sharon
Bruce Crossing Michigan
USA
5216 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2014 :  03:44:56 AM  Show Profile
Great photos Patsy! I too love back roads, there's something so relaxing and comforting about them :)

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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl

1874 Posts

Linda
Kansas
1874 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2014 :  03:56:05 AM  Show Profile
I love this photo ! I love old cabins, I always have. Sometimes I think I should've been born in another time period, lol!
Where I used to live,a rural desert area in Ca...... there was a homesteading act in the 50s to get people to come there.......build a small structure and the 5 acres were free. Soooo many little cabins and shacks were still standing. Was fun to see and wonder who, what etc.
When the push for real estate boom came in with all those fraud home loans these cabins were pretty much all demolished for very huge 'city type' homes. Then the financial crash came and these huge homes sit vacant now.

Patsy, it sure looks beautiful where you live..... I think I would want to take the back road drive all the time!

Have a good day, everyone :)

Blessings,
Linda



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notathreatinsight
True Blue Farmgirl

626 Posts

Erin
Monroeville IN
USA
626 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2014 :  06:32:50 AM  Show Profile
Patsy, what a lovely little cabin! There are plenty of back roads where I live, but I hardly ever see old little structures like that. I think it's because there's so much farm land that the farmers tear down anything that is no longer useful. When I first moved into my country house a few years ago, there was a big red barn across the street that was no longer attached to a house, and just stood by itself. I loved to look at it out our front window, and it was very useful when people were coming to visit us for the first time. We would tell them our house was right across the road from the lonely red barn. We had a birthday party on a Saturday in December a couple years ago and we woke up to a crew across the street bulldozing it and burning it in a giant hole in the ground. I was so sad. I know the farmers want to get as much planted as they can, but it still made me sad.

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Dirtduchess
True Blue Farmgirl

693 Posts

Patsy
Decatur TX
USA
693 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2014 :  07:34:09 AM  Show Profile
I love all of the comments. Makes me want to go look for more old structures. Does anyone have any pictures of back roads?

Patsy
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