Life on the farm

[Larry Caldwell]

Saw a bumper sticker...

Don't California our Texas.

The same thing is happening to Texas that happened to California. The economy is based on defense contractors and military bases. Add in the federal oil leases in the Gulf, and you're looking at $100 billion a year in corporate welfare. Nobody is going back to a cow culture.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It was an assumption on my part that the house wasn't generating enough heat to melt the snow.

With modern construction, snow on the roof is a good sign that it's properly insulated. But then, modern houses are 70F inside. That old house was not.

There may not have been anyone living in the house when that picture was taken. I believe it was taken the year before dad bought the farm.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

We, as humans, were much tougher then. There's no one reading this thread today that would live in that house. There's not snow on the roof because it's insulated well. The farm house I grew up in was two story and horribly inefficient. But it was what we had. No indoor plumbing. Wood heat. I don't remember it as horrible. Just required more manual labor to be livable.

I grew up in a house like that. It was tough for a little kid to stay warm. I slept with a stocking cap on my head to keep it from hurting in the cold. We had indoor plumbing, unless it froze solid. The toilet tank iced up and broke one winter. We saw ice in the toilet bowl many times.

Nowadays I still use wood heat, but my house is well insulated. A small fire keeps the whole house warm.

 

[ovrszd]

There may not have been anyone living in the house when that picture was taken. I believe it was taken the year before dad bought the farm.

I wondered about that. Thanks for posting the pic, it depicted the harshness of those times. Your Mom was excited about her new house, regardless of how cold it was.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Never post anything (on line) or put up signs that you wouldn't want a jury to be shown.

Wise words indeed...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Based on other pics, I believe these pics were taken Christmas Day 1947. So about 5 months before mom and dad married and before dad bought the farm.

They were at her grandparents house next door. Then owned by my G grandparents. Note oil Derrick behind their house..



This pic is taken at the edge of our farm, boundary to G parents farm.
. The building in the background in front of dad is an old pump house that pumped multiple wells from one location. When I was young there was still an operational pump house like this on my G grandparents former farm.
This picture (taken this week) is a concrete foundation that was part of the pump house in above picture. There are steel rods and bolts still in the ground. We had more old concrete foundations like this further back on the farm also.


Picture to right of last picture showing house.

The 2 buildings to right of the old house is where our current house sits.

Another copy of mom in front of old house.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My grandparents wood fired cook stove.

 

[bunyip]

You can still buy Aga wood stoves with a hot back as an option, far from cheap.

 

[Hay Dude]

Today mom would have turned 96, she passed away over 4 yrs ago. She loved flowers and birds, so will post this taken in 1977.
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Awwwww now dont go makin me sad....My mom passed away 5 years ago. Still miss her words of wisdom

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I grew up in a house like that. It was tough for a little kid to stay warm. I slept with a stocking cap on my head to keep it from hurting in the cold. We had indoor plumbing, unless it froze solid. The toilet tank iced up and broke one winter. We saw ice in the toilet bowl many times.

Nowadays I still use wood heat, but my house is well insulated. A small fire keeps the whole house warm.

I know what you mean. Many's the mornings I got up and the water bucket would have ice floating in it; the plumbing never froze because we didn't have any. I used to have a quarter-sized scar on my stomach, where I got too close to the old pot bellied heating stove after my Saturday night bath in the old galvanized wash tub. I used to keep a bout a half gallon of priming water near the pump; if it froze during the Winter, you had to use water from the water bucket...if you had any...or heat the old can containing the priming water...if you had any...else it meant a trip to the creek. Mom cooked on a kerosene stove.