Great-Grandpas Old Farm

Excavator · Sep 11, 2009

Great-Grandpa's Old Farm

Took a little ride to the ridge to pick up some slab wood for some bridge repairs (built two and repaired one). I came home from vacation to get some rest!

Thought I would show you the site of Great-Grandpa's farm. Some of you may remember the story of my Great-Grandparents landing a flatboat nearby and using wood from the boat to start a homestead, this is where they first settled.

Excavator · Sep 11, 2009

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Don't understand why my pics sometimes don't display.

packerbacker · Sep 11, 2009

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Nice lookin' place. Wonder what's at the bottom of that well.

pganjon · Sep 11, 2009

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Beautiful spot Excavator :icon_thumleft:

I can see why they planted roots :icon_sunny:

Thanks for showing! Paul :coffee2:

allen · Sep 14, 2009

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awesome site !

CarolinaDigs · Sep 17, 2009

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absolutely a gorgeous place ! I love the rolling landscape

Excavator · Sep 19, 2009

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Thanks everyone, for taking the extra time to look. I tried several times to get the pics to display, no luck, they won't even upload to my picture host.

pb- I might find out what's in the well. Those old timers laid those stones pretty well, the well at our farm has the same type and I had to climb into it to retrieve a runaway watermelon a while back, none of the stones were loose in that one.

We took a ride up there one night to look at the stars and all around the lower hills we heard a chorus of owls answering each other. When I heard the bear grunt, we got in the truck and left. Didn't tell the Mrs. why we left until we got home.... she made me promise not to try and scare her out there in the dark.

I'm supposed to be getting some old pics of the farm in it's heyday, I'll post a couple here when I get them. It was quite a spread to be so far off the beaten path.

rmptr · Sep 19, 2009

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Hey X...

I think ...maybe.... only 6 pics at a time
and,
only 1,200 kb for the aggregate of all...

or something like that. Not sure.

Try making them smaller... I use Photo resize.

bootybay · Sep 20, 2009

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those are great photos.. awesome since its your family too.. cant wait to see more..

Excavator · Sep 20, 2009

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Thanks again! I'll keep an eye on the place and see if the Fall colors are good this year.

rmptr- This is what is shown for attachments on posts: "Maximum attachment size allowed: 512 KB, per post: 12 "

So we can post up to 12 pics, but is that 512kb total or 512kb each? I re-sized to smallest available with my camera application, 640 x ..something.

What confounds me is, I never had trouble with the old camera using the same picture size, I've posted pics from the new camera successfully, although I had trouble with this post and one other. And, the pics in this post won't go into my pic host because it says they aren't .jpg, but they are.

rmptr · Sep 20, 2009

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Hey X,

Seems like everything gets more complicated !
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Excavator · Sep 20, 2009

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rmptr said:
Hey X,

Seems like everything gets more complicated !
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Or is it our brains getting slower? :dontknow:

Next time I'll try one test pic before doing the whole post.

bravowhiskey · Sep 20, 2009

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My sincere hope that the farm is still in the family. It is worse than a crying shame to have to sell out. EVER! We still retain the one in my wifes' family after 130 years.
It is too bad that many just see dollars when it comes to the old place. It sounds like you have the proper respect. For that, you get a huge.... BRAVO!

BW

Excavator · Sep 20, 2009

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Hey thanks BW.

Alas, this particular homestead now belongs to the timber company (boundary markers on the well). It was sold off way before my time, but the 1859 log cabin with it's 600 acres and oil wells, and the 45 acre farm with it's house (both posted previously), are still in the family.

I've been lobbying hard for full ownership of the 45 acres (I own 1/7th), but it's been hinted that the 600 acres is earmarked for me.

Thanks again, I do feel I have the proper respect, I just hope I can continue to express it and pass it down.