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[Tor R]

Im looking at all the rocks that were laid in there probably by hand. We have it easy nowadays.

The guy who built most of the old buildings I have was a carpenter.
Young and family, bought the farm in 1902.
Lost his wife and child to tuberculosis, placed his son in a neighboring valley and traveled to the US to earn enough money to provide for them in the future.
Came back and built the house and farm building, and yep, these foundations were not easy to put in place. The foundation wall of my house he built has a double layer of stone.
The same guy lost his next wife to tuberculosis too.
That generation did not complain about what they had to go through to get the food on the table.

 

[Boomhower]

The guy who built most of the old buildings I have was a carpenter.
Young and family, bought the farm in 1902.
Lost his wife and child to tuberculosis, placed his son in a neighboring valley and traveled to the US to earn enough money to provide for them in the future.
Came back and built the house and farm building, and yep, these foundations were not easy to put in place. The foundation wall of my house he built has a double layer of stone.
The same guy lost his next wife to tuberculosis too.
That generation did not complain about what they had to go through to get the food on the table.

I think the history of old homesteads is very interesting. I researched my place and looked the family up through ancestry.com

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

Happy BJ day DJ.

 

[Firewood Hoarder]

I think the history of old homesteads is very interesting. I researched my place and looked the family up through ancestry.com

I am also fascinated by the history that comes with a homestead's age. I grew up in a farmhouse that was built in 1880 and the barn and outbuildings went up in 1879 before the house. The barn had a bunkhouse in half of the upper level, where the family lived during home construction. My father has spent most of his life trying to maintain and restore all of it...

 

[Tor R]

I think the history of old homesteads is very interesting. I researched my place and looked the family up through ancestry.com

So am I, I love reading statistics about which families lived on the various farms in this valley, and when they changed hands.
Was the transfer to a son, or were the farms split up which was very common, or were they sold out by the family.
I have come back to around 1750.

 

[Boomhower]

I am also fascinated by the history that comes with a homestead's age. I grew up in a farmhouse that was built in 1880 and the barn and outbuildings went up in 1879 before the house. The barn had a bunkhouse in half of the upper level, where the family lived during home construction. My father has spent most of his life trying to maintain and restore all of it...

Very cool to be able to live in an old historical house. The craftsmanship is hard to duplicate today.

Most of the buildings on our place had rotted down long before I came along. The people were poor and the houses were just barn tin shacks. Noone had lived here for 40-50 years so nature took over pretty quickly. Ive done some metal detecting and found old square nails and barb wire. Found a first year wheat peny too. Still hopeful ill find where they buried the gold and silver.

 

[Boomhower]

Here are a few sites worth checking out. The first one is cool because you can toggle between years and see how things developed.

Historic Aerials: Viewer

www.historicaerials.com

https://vintageaerial.com/

 

[John Wargo]

Now everyone knows you ask for pictures

I don't need pics. Your sister told me all about it.

 

[Boomhower]

So am I, I love reading statistics about which families lived on the various farms in this valley, and when they changed hands.
Was the transfer to a son, or were the farms split up which was very common, or were they sold out by the family.
I have come back to around 1750.

I know what you mean. Texas unfortunately is one of the fastest growing states so I see a lot of the larger ranches being busted up by money hungry kids.

 

[stihl livin]

I don't need pics. Your sister told me all about it.

You are just like your sister.

 

[John Wargo]

You are just like your sister.

I know you are

 

[3browns]

I am also fascinated by the history that comes with a homestead's age. I grew up in a farmhouse that was built in 1880 and the barn and outbuildings went up in 1879 before the house. The barn had a bunkhouse in half of the upper level, where the family lived during home construction. My father has spent most of his life trying to maintain and restore all of it...

There is a pair of sisters in my area who are dedicated to saving as many of the old barns from the 1930s “colony” era when large groups of Scandinavian settlers from the upper Midwest states came out to the Mat-Su valley to establish farms

Sadly many farmers are giving up and selling out and development is pushing the old farmsteads into oblivion

 

[Tor R]

I know what you mean. Texas unfortunately is one of the fastest growing states so I see a lot of the larger ranches being busted up by money hungry kids.

In my country, development has gone both ways.
Most people can buy the farms in this valley as they are not considered viable enough.
There are two farms from this valley to the city that are full-time farms, and a full agricultural education is required to buy such farms according to the legislation.
Before, anyone could buy as long as they either farmed or rented it out on a 10-year contract, but the authorities have tightened up on that.

Something has been abandoned in this district as well, but you can perhaps see the most delightfully abandoned places further inland, only the foundation wall remains, where you can dream back how lovely it once was there.

 

[Gullet]

@Lnk @Mastermind,@3browns
You'll understand...
Prolly the best Sound Quality CD I've EVER heard (I have a battery powered Pre/Dac).
He is a LEGEND in the Music Industry for good reason.
He was the Michael Jackson of his time.

 

[Gullet]

@Lnk @Mastermind,@3browns
You'll understand...
Prolly the best Sound Quality CD I've EVER heard (I have a battery powered Pre/Dac).
He is a LEGEND in the Music Industry for good reason.
He was the Michael Jackson of his time.
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Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on its list of the "Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 13 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"

 

[Czed]

B

What do you use to relieve the piston pin bosses I'm going
To put a 066 piston on a 288?

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[Czed]

@Lnk @Mastermind,@3browns
You'll understand...
Prolly the best Sound Quality CD I've EVER heard (I have a battery powered Pre/Dac).
He is a LEGEND in the Music Industry for good reason.
He was the Michael Jackson of his time.
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I didn't know roy orbison was a child molester

 

[John Wargo]

Nice to be home. But i immediately knew the difference between the vegas dry heat and the heavy humidity here as soon as i walked off the plane

 

[Gullet]

I didn't know roy orbison was a child molester

Reference to that?
I didn't think so, just running your mouth AGAIN.
Is it because he's not from your BELOVED REPUBLIC OF CHINA?

 

[Gullet]

I didn't know roy orbison was a child molester

I'll Google a Chinese knockoff for ya!

I want to thank you for supporting China!