Top photo, bottom right corner…what is that rectanglur looking thing? In the bottom two photos, I love the “path” the cows or some farm critter must have made that path walking to the woods????
Lloyd Jr I will try to tell what I know about these pictures. the pictures of the sheds. We have talked about the shed on the left before, it had the grain bin in it and fathers tool shed and the machine whed and at one time the sheep were kept in there, and I am sure there were many other uses for that building over these years. Now I am moving to the next shed. That shed was the chicken house.Where the chickens were kept when they were older. There were boxes build for the laying hens and chicken roosts where they roosted at night when they came in for the night. I remember When it was extreemly cold outside there was a coil oil stove that they lit and burned to keep chickens from freezing to death. someone would have to stay out there with them at night.I also remember there being lice out there and I hated going in there to get the eggs. I dont remember what was done to get rid of the lice because we didnt have them all the time.That was in the north side of the building. The other half of the building was used for other things. Bea remembers when the ducks or geese were housed in there.I remember when Mahlon was going to build a airplain in there. We were scavengers, we Carried anything and everything we could from the old homestead of the house that burned down some years before.This airplain was built out of wood, I helped him all I could but I really never thought it would be real or really worked. When Mahlon came to the realization that it wasn’t going to fly, he really cried.That suprised me. I did feel sorry for him. I remember bathing in there one summer, with a bucket of water to wash off and a bucket of water to rinse off the soap. It was a place for privacy. Bea and I dont think eith of those small building were toilets. but at one time the first toilet was somewhere close to that small short building. Bra said that other building didn’t have a good roof on it, and didn’t remember anything being kept in there. My guess the toilet we used was somewhere to the right of this picture
Could it have been the old outhouse? It looks like it is kinda slanted and ready to fall over. But its roof is not very tall for an outhouse. I thought there was one in that general area at one time.
LOL, Aunt Lolly,,,I read your comment late when I was tired and had to read it over and over!!! how funny! I thought it was saying they drug the road with Aunt Naomi!!!!She never wrote about that in her
memories!!!
Julie, you are so funny! Sometimes I DID feel like I had been used to drag the road at home. I think I figured out what the building is/was that Lloyd, Jr. asked about. I think it is the old chicken house. The chickens brooded on the south side and the nests where they laid eggs was to the east side. I don’t know why it was torn down. It must have been after I left home. Does anyone remember? I remember burying a 10-cent dimestore ring on the south side of it when I was little. I wonder if it’s still there!
I remember the South side of the Chicken house being a place where Naomi and I played a lot. The floor was dirt, then you walked up about a three foot slanted slab of boards to the next level, that was made of Chicken wire floor. It didn’t cover the whole area, It made a turn, and was all the way across the North side of that little part of the building. I remember it being clean, guess thats why we played there. I don’t know why that part of the building was torn down. Does anyone know?
Naomi Vetter says
Top photo, bottom right corner…what is that rectanglur looking thing? In the bottom two photos, I love the “path” the cows or some farm critter must have made that path walking to the woods????
Julie Baker says
Looks like there was a small barn closer to the house. The buildings get me confussed! Must have been before my time.
Lloyd Jr. says
I was trying to figure it out too, and would love to hear someone tell what it was for and why it was removed.
cleopha says
Lloyd Jr I will try to tell what I know about these pictures. the pictures of the sheds. We have talked about the shed on the left before, it had the grain bin in it and fathers tool shed and the machine whed and at one time the sheep were kept in there, and I am sure there were many other uses for that building over these years. Now I am moving to the next shed. That shed was the chicken house.Where the chickens were kept when they were older. There were boxes build for the laying hens and chicken roosts where they roosted at night when they came in for the night. I remember When it was extreemly cold outside there was a coil oil stove that they lit and burned to keep chickens from freezing to death. someone would have to stay out there with them at night.I also remember there being lice out there and I hated going in there to get the eggs. I dont remember what was done to get rid of the lice because we didnt have them all the time.That was in the north side of the building. The other half of the building was used for other things. Bea remembers when the ducks or geese were housed in there.I remember when Mahlon was going to build a airplain in there. We were scavengers, we Carried anything and everything we could from the old homestead of the house that burned down some years before.This airplain was built out of wood, I helped him all I could but I really never thought it would be real or really worked. When Mahlon came to the realization that it wasn’t going to fly, he really cried.That suprised me. I did feel sorry for him. I remember bathing in there one summer, with a bucket of water to wash off and a bucket of water to rinse off the soap. It was a place for privacy. Bea and I dont think eith of those small building were toilets. but at one time the first toilet was somewhere close to that small short building. Bra said that other building didn’t have a good roof on it, and didn’t remember anything being kept in there. My guess the toilet we used was somewhere to the right of this picture
Naomi Vetter says
Could it have been the old outhouse? It looks like it is kinda slanted and ready to fall over. But its roof is not very tall for an outhouse. I thought there was one in that general area at one time.
Lloyd Jr. says
I was thinking of the larger shed next to that outhouse like structure.
Aunt Lolly says
That looks like something they might have used to drag the road with Naomi.
Julie Baker says
LOL, Aunt Lolly,,,I read your comment late when I was tired and had to read it over and over!!! how funny! I thought it was saying they drug the road with Aunt Naomi!!!!She never wrote about that in her
memories!!!
Naomi Vetter says
Julie, you are so funny! Sometimes I DID feel like I had been used to drag the road at home. I think I figured out what the building is/was that Lloyd, Jr. asked about. I think it is the old chicken house. The chickens brooded on the south side and the nests where they laid eggs was to the east side. I don’t know why it was torn down. It must have been after I left home. Does anyone remember? I remember burying a 10-cent dimestore ring on the south side of it when I was little. I wonder if it’s still there!
Aunt Lolly says
I remember the South side of the Chicken house being a place where Naomi and I played a lot. The floor was dirt, then you walked up about a three foot slanted slab of boards to the next level, that was made of Chicken wire floor. It didn’t cover the whole area, It made a turn, and was all the way across the North side of that little part of the building. I remember it being clean, guess thats why we played there. I don’t know why that part of the building was torn down. Does anyone know?