Barns and a few Necessities

Aunt Lois and Mom Wynette- Aren't they just peaches? So much fun and so active for youngsters in their 70-something and 80.We laughed Sooo hard our faces and stomach muscles hurt...
The outhouse started it....tho there IS inside plumbing, there used to be a need for this lil building years ago and when the power goes out....brrrr
Yesterday, I took my Mother to see her sister up North. Now, Aunt Lois is a pioneer of a generation before me. She and her husband never had any children but she still ran the farm by herself while my uncle was involved with forestry, tending the upkeep of cabins around the flowage. He is in another heaven for a few years now. Our visit was wonderful and memories abounded.

These are my Aunts barn boots, now all purpose and wood carriers. She no longer farms after being recognized several times for her excellence in milk producing stock.
I will be adding more photos later but for now will keep with the barns and just a few of her items that sustain her life. She is not of todays requirements of survival, but rather of yester-years. This is one of the antique gas pumps, still in use.
The old iron wheel barrow leaning against the outhouse, is still used to haul her firewood from one of the barns to the porch of her house. She heats with firewood in the kitchen and dining area which is one big open space, much like todays new-fangled home with open-concept design.

The distance from the wood storage to the house is about 60 yards up a steep grade. She fills her wood box a couple times a week after shoveling her path if the plow has not come through.

It takes her about 5 trips to fill the box. Now that beats any workout in the gym.

This is the counter-weight system used to open the Bus Garage door with ease. The bus garage is over 100 years old, and is still in excellent condition, having only a couple rows of logs replaced nearly 50 years ago when my aunt and uncle first moved into his parents home a few years prior.

The log bus garage is quite the wonderful sight. It has dormers on the west side to let more light in and the upper section is used for storage with a ladder access. Windows and the dormers were added later.
The west side with the dormer, more windows, and a service door. I love this building. I would sure love to move it to my cabin...

This is the barn that housed many prize cows, calves and a bull throughout my aunts farming days. It sits about 100 yards from the main house behind the bus garage and a couple other outer buildings. Love that copula that used to have a cow weathervane atop that neighbor kids shot off with their BB guns. It's still a beautiful site.

This is the back and side of the wood barn. More loft windows on this beauty.
On the ride up north, we pass this wonderful old barn in the middle of a field that must have either had a home or perhaps, just to store the hay without hauling it to the actual farm which I believe was across the road by yet other outbuildings and another small barn. It's a nice sized field for our rocky country.
Another shot of the same barn.
I hope you enjoyed the ride... It was such a wonderful day for a visit and how we laughed.

God Bless Your World