Life on the farm

[ovrszd]

Hope Dennis doesn't mind us messing with his pic. I cropped it a little and increased the pixel size a little. Here's my frameable version.

 

[fatjay]

Here's some comedy for you.

Help! I Am Struggling With an Overwhelming Desire to Become Amish.

But am I ready to make the leap into that 19th century life?

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Help! I Am Struggling With an Overwhelming Desire to Become Amish.​

Dear Prudence,

I’m struggling. I’m feeling a strong connection to the Amish, and I would love to dig deeper into this feeling. I feel the urge to join them, but I feel as though it is disrespectful and I’m not sure I am ready. I also don’t want to be judged by my friends and family for converting to the Amish lifestyle. AND I really love having a phone and car and shower and makeup and cute clothes, so is there a way that I can join the Amish but keep everything I already have? I basically just want to farm and not pay taxes. HELP!!!!

— Amish Wannabe

Dear Amish Wannabe,

Look, I get it. Life in 2023 is expensive and draining. What I’m hearing in your letter is a feeling of being overstimulated, overwhelmed, and desperate to unplug and simplify your existence. But leave the Amish out of it! They are busy, and don’t need you and your cute clothes complicating their lives. It sounds like you could use a one-week camping trip. Try that and reevaluate.

I can’t help you with the taxes.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Interesting feature with a door to the porch roof. Was that so you could sit on the roof on summer nights when it was hot & stuffy inside?

I have no idea, but I’ve seen it on older homes. Might be to get furniture upstairs, often steps were narrow with a turn.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That's an awesome picture of that house!!!! I'd have that framed hanging in my shop somewhere.

P.S. The chimney looks like an owl face!!!!

I love that chimney stone.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Those boards weren’t there in 2018, but show in 2021 picture. Here’s 2008 pic

 

[DKCDKC]

I was blessed to grow up on a family farm, land my family had farmed since the early 1800s. My father had a moderate-sized Herford brood herd operation - with a small flock of sheep (to clean up pastures after the cattle) and a few hogs (for garbage disposal and to take advantage of a large oak-hickory forest). We had a few dairy cows as well - and were pretty self-sufficient. I learned a lot - even though I left farming for another career. I still own part of the family farm but, now almost 80, I rent out the pastures I have to a neighboring farmer. Still have an use my tractor, though, and enjoy living far from neighbors.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I have no idea, but I’ve seen it on older homes. Might be to get furniture upstairs, often steps were narrow with a turn.

Sometimes the hired help lived upstairs, and had their own external stairway.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sometimes the hired help lived upstairs, and had their own external stairway.

No hired help on any of our farms, that’s why there’s so many kids.

Obviously someone’s been messing with the house.
The people who live on other side of this property are friends with dad. They might be the ones who mows the fields around this house. Another relative used to keep grandfathers fields mowed, but he moved and those fields are now getting overgrown.

 

[ovrszd]

No hired help on any of our farms, that’s why there’s so many kids.

Obviously someone’s been messing with the house.
The people who live on other side of this property are friends with dad. They might be the ones who mows the fields around this house. Another relative used to keep grandfathers fields mowed, but he moved and those fields are now getting overgrown.

In your and my World, if man stops pushing against Mother Nature she immediately reclaims her land.

When I'm traveling thru areas that have limited natural vegetation I always think about why? Mother Nature can be cruel and those areas prove it.

 

[lman]

No hired help on our farm. I had 8 siblings. We all had jobs and most was physical labor. We raised beef cattle and didn't have a front end loader, so my 3 brothers and I were pretty good with pitchforks.
When all the kids moved off the farm, parents sold it to retire.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The hired help

 

[buckeyefarmer]

One of the property lines is roughly down this low spot. Note old oil tank from probably around 1900.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We hauled wheat in one like that when it was brand new! It was one Summer I worked for a custom cutter.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

On grandfathers farm, on the farm lane to the bottom of the hill, on a beach tree, dad had carved that he killed a bear there in 1938. He would have been 14 at the time. Dad at the "bear tree" in 1976.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Lightning hit this tree in 1977, above our pond.

 

[kenmbz]

One of our neighbors, who was about 80 at the time showed me their hunting pictures.
Him and some other farmers had chipped in to by a Harley, because it could go on the forest trails and had enough torque to drag out a bear.

The picture was him and the others standing around the bike with bear attached looking very proud of their cleverness.

 

[ovrszd]

One of the property lines is roughly down this low spot. Note old oil tank from probably around 1900.View attachment 784046

Another spectacular picture. My imagination goes wild. I'm gonna "steal" this one too Dennis.

 

[ovrszd]

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We hauled wheat in one like that when it was brand new! It was one Summer I worked for a custom cutter.

Being an absolute auto nut as a teenager, I built dozens of AMT models!!!! I didn't have this one though....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Another spectacular picture. My imagination goes wild. I'm gonna "steal" this one too Dennis.

That might have been the water tank from hooterville.

 

[ovrszd]

That might have been the water tank from hooterville.

It's a bit small,,, but possibly!!!! Thanks for posting these.

Not sure I've asked, are you the photographer of these modern pictures?