Life on the farm

[ovrszd]

My grandmother had something similar around 1910. I think it was called a kodak brownie camera. My uncle ended up with the photo albums, then my aunt. My aunt valued the photos, but her perspective was limited by the fact that the time periods the photos were taken were almost within her lifetime. For me they are very much not. My perspective is completely different. My kids and grand kids - they are in awe. When I mentioned that to her, that the pictures my grandmother took really were the first time in history that events had been recorded, in volume, and in real time, with equipment available to ordinary people, she sent them home with me. She's almost 90. They are in safe keeping.

I had my Mom write on the back who the people were and a year date or event. I have a couple dozen out of hundreds that she couldn't identify.

 

[ovrszd]

I enjoy going thru the old pics. I run a FB picture page that deals with pictures in Ohio. A lot of old pictures get posted that I love seeing. I’ve learned a lot of history just posting and reading other posts.

Here’s my oldest climbing the old ladder in the barn. This is the shed side of the barn. This would get filled with bales also. We fed just to the left in this picture. Behind is an area we could pen up 2-3 cows to load for market. We would stack hay over this area also.
When the barn was full, we used the ladder to climb thru the top window to throw bales down to feed, once the shed was empty.

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When I was around his age Dad let the loft door down. Told me to go up in the loft and throw out ten square bales. The loft was full clear to the peak. Mom and Dad left for town. I climbed to the top and tried to push out a bale. Could not. So I got on the outside of the stack and pulled on the bale twines to slide one out. The twine broke. I fell out of the barn backwards from the loft peak to the ground below. I lit on my shoulders. Temporarily paralyzed me. Couldn't walk or crawl. I dragged myself to the house and waited for them to come home. Was in the hospital 10 days. Was 4 days before I could stand and walk. I felt horrible for my Dad. He struggled with it all.

 

[bindian]

Ouch. We would take naps in the hay loft. When Dad found out he scared us by saying a rat would bite our nose off.
I still got Mom and Dad's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera.

One bulb one flash. I remember trying to catch the flashed bulbs as they were ejected.
hugs, Brandi

 

[ovrszd]

Ouch. We would take naps in the hay loft. When Dad found out he scared us by saying a rat would bite our nose off.
I still got Mom and Dad's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. View attachment 773694 One bulb one flash. I remember trying to catch the flashed bulbs as they were ejected.
hugs, Brandi

Mom's was older. No plastic. Made of wood covered with a leather looking cloth. No flash.

You have a treasure!!! Wish I had Mom's.

 

[BnRidge]

Mom's was older. No plastic. Made of wood covered with a leather looking cloth. No flash.

You have a treasure!!! Wish I had Mom's.

Like this?

 

[ovrszd]

Like this?

Very much so.

I'm so shallow, I spent 15 minutes yesterday evening looking thru pictures trying to find one of the camera..... Duhhhhhhh...... She took the pictures with the camera..... Sometimes I'm so slow it shocks me.....

 

[sixdogs]

I really enjoy browsing thru my childhood memories and thinking about how "big" things were.

When I went back and looked at my uncle's barns after 50 years away, I was shocked at how little they were. As a little kid I remember them being much bigger and maybe a mile long and almost as wide. I think life plays those tricks on us to make sure we're paying attention.

 

[ovrszd]

When I went back and looked at my uncle's barns after 50 years away, I was shocked at how little they were. As a little kid I remember them being much bigger and maybe a mile long and almost as wide. I think life plays those tricks on us to make sure we're paying attention.

All about perspective Six.

Our dogs think we are as big as those barns.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We used to make houses, or little caves with the hay bales. We would fall asleep in the barn sometimes. On a nice cold day it was warm in the hay bales. I remember doing flips off the upper beams and landing in the hay below. My uncle used to have a video of some of us jumping out of the high window into the pile of hay below. Wished I had that video.

My favorite memory is walking back from the barn in the snow after dark, right before Christmas with the tree lights on in the house.

 

[ovrszd]

We used to make houses, or little caves with the hay bales. We would fall asleep in the barn sometimes. On a nice cold day it was warm in the hay bales. I remember doing flips off the upper beams and landing in the hay below. My uncle used to have a video of some of us jumping out of the high window into the pile of hay below. Wished I had that video.

My favorite memory is walking back from the barn in the snow after dark, right before Christmas with the tree lights on in the house.

Make sure your kids know these stories.