Citydude
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That's beautiful Buckeye. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Life on the farm
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That's beautiful Buckeye. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
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buckeyefarmer
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More thanksgiving pictures from the farm:
View from the top of the hill looking east. In the background you can see smoke stacks from power plants in West Virginia, on the Ohio River. The property goes back to the end of the fields.
Taking a post dinner walk.
We have this unusual tree on the farm, where 2 trees are connected with a common limb.
helped plant these pine trees many years ago.
One of the two springs on the property. There are some buckeye trees just to the right of this spring.
View from the top of the hill looking east. In the background you can see smoke stacks from power plants in West Virginia, on the Ohio River. The property goes back to the end of the fields.
Taking a post dinner walk.
We have this unusual tree on the farm, where 2 trees are connected with a common limb.
helped plant these pine trees many years ago.
One of the two springs on the property. There are some buckeye trees just to the right of this spring.
Terry1040
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Thanks for the great photos that you have posted. I grew up on a Nebraska wheat farm & still spend a lot of time there. But, my 3 children have grown up in the city (20,000 population) but they still have strong ties to the farm. I think growing up on a farm is the best possible way to grow up !
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buckeyefarmer
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One of our neighbors married a guy and now lives on a nebraska farm. Her brother took vacation to go help harvest this year.
Terry1040
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A lot of "city" based people do find their way to the farm, for harvest & other back to nature times. We need to have that connection !
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buckeyefarmer
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these neighbors are all farmers. Their dads farm is across the hollow, oldest son's farm is beside him, another son is beside my dad's farm. One of the other sisters is married to a farmer in the county.
They help look after my parents since I only have 1 sister that lives close by them. The oldest son is the one who baled hay for my dad this year.
When we were there this week, a 4 wheeler came up to the house after dark, young boy knocked on the door and I answered it. He said one of their coon dogs had a coon tree'd on our farm, wanted to know if it was ok to go across our field to get it. Since I didn't know the kid, I asked his name, once he told me, I said sure, go ahead. They are a good family and nice people.
When we were young my parents had a 4H club. All these kids were in our club.
It's nice living in the country with good neighbors. I live a good distance away from the farm, but I still live in the country, have my tractors, and play farmer on a small scale. I'm surrounded by larger farms, and am blessed to have good neighbors.
They help look after my parents since I only have 1 sister that lives close by them. The oldest son is the one who baled hay for my dad this year.
When we were there this week, a 4 wheeler came up to the house after dark, young boy knocked on the door and I answered it. He said one of their coon dogs had a coon tree'd on our farm, wanted to know if it was ok to go across our field to get it. Since I didn't know the kid, I asked his name, once he told me, I said sure, go ahead. They are a good family and nice people.
When we were young my parents had a 4H club. All these kids were in our club.
It's nice living in the country with good neighbors. I live a good distance away from the farm, but I still live in the country, have my tractors, and play farmer on a small scale. I'm surrounded by larger farms, and am blessed to have good neighbors.
Terry1040
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I feel that the few remaining neighbors that we have are good ones. Over 60% of the farm yards have been eliminated in the past 50 years. Most buildings are gone & farmed over. One house burned. Only have 2 occupied homes within a mile, but that is better than most areas. We have had about 6 breakins & theft, but all the same person, who was arrested. We really are blessed in our neighborhood.
300UGUY
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Great pics, and a even better story. My mother's family was settling about the same period in SE Michigan. It's all subdivisions and strip malls now. We know some of the history, but not much more than births and deaths. It's great that you have more of the personal stuff.
Kyle_in_Tex
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As usual, I'm a bit late to the party.
Thanks for sharing your farm stories and photos.
I am thankful for all those who served our country so that we may enjoy the freedoms we have today. Freedom ain't free.
Thanks for sharing your farm stories and photos.
I am thankful for all those who served our country so that we may enjoy the freedoms we have today. Freedom ain't free.
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buckeyefarmer
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The Cabin
Sometime in the mid 70's, we built this cabin. It was built in our yard on runners, and then pulled back into the edge of the woods, in one of the pastures on the farm.
As kids, we spent a lot of time back in that cabin. We built a fence around it to keep the cows out, we would take a push mower back and mow around it, we built a stacked brick fire pit, and even had a picnic table in it's little yard.
Picnic around 1977. My grandmother who died in 1979.
The cabin had a bunk bed on the back left side, a single bunk on the back right side. We rigged up DC lighting using batteries and flashlight bulbs, wired into a switch at the door. There were 3 windows and one door. All the material was recycled from other older buildings we had torn down at some time.
In the summers, we slept at the cabin many nights. We used sleeping bags, and those blow up air mattresses.
We would ride our bikes back, or if we needed to get back early in the morning, Dad would let us drive the old farm truck back.
We had numerous family picnics at the cabin, which we nicknamed "The Moonlite motel".
After we all moved away, eventually the fence fell to disrepair. It was blown over once by a strong wind, Dad pulled it back over. eventually the roof went and it rotted away. The old bricks are still there.
Photo of the interior in 2004, about 30 yrs later.
We were fortunate to have the material that we could build cabins, tree houses, etc. on the farm. Many memories of the old cabin.
Sometime in the mid 70's, we built this cabin. It was built in our yard on runners, and then pulled back into the edge of the woods, in one of the pastures on the farm.
As kids, we spent a lot of time back in that cabin. We built a fence around it to keep the cows out, we would take a push mower back and mow around it, we built a stacked brick fire pit, and even had a picnic table in it's little yard.
Picnic around 1977. My grandmother who died in 1979.
The cabin had a bunk bed on the back left side, a single bunk on the back right side. We rigged up DC lighting using batteries and flashlight bulbs, wired into a switch at the door. There were 3 windows and one door. All the material was recycled from other older buildings we had torn down at some time.
In the summers, we slept at the cabin many nights. We used sleeping bags, and those blow up air mattresses.
We would ride our bikes back, or if we needed to get back early in the morning, Dad would let us drive the old farm truck back.
We had numerous family picnics at the cabin, which we nicknamed "The Moonlite motel".
After we all moved away, eventually the fence fell to disrepair. It was blown over once by a strong wind, Dad pulled it back over. eventually the roof went and it rotted away. The old bricks are still there.
Photo of the interior in 2004, about 30 yrs later.
We were fortunate to have the material that we could build cabins, tree houses, etc. on the farm. Many memories of the old cabin.
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