The farm has been in Country Boy’s family for over 100 years. All over the farm are things that the various generations have added to the property. Trees that have been planted to celebrate important occasions, old farm machinery that is now out dated, and the discarded detritus of our ancestors. Our house was built by Country Boys’ great grandfather in the 1940’s, on the same site that a previous house sat.
Both Country Boy and his father feel very attached to this property, and the girls are enjoying hearing stories of how the farm was when they were children.
They also enjoy scrabbling around in the dirt just outside out yard, finding all sorts of ‘treasures’. We have found parts to several plates and cups, some with beautiful patterns, and recently we found a marble which (we guess) was FIL’s when he was a boy, and has been in the dirt for the past 50 odd years. All these treasures have stories attached to them. The girls enjoy finding beautiful pieces and imagining what they once were.
It’s our very own (mini) archaeology dig and there are treasures to be found everywhere.
Great finds we have an old shack much the same and the old shearing shed .
Love this Jo. Just like looking for gold.
Hope you are now able to get around the farm and the roads and not getting bogged.
Farms are great for stories and history. We have an old farmhouse that is no longer lived in that was flooded out in the 50s and I love walking through it and thinking of the people who lived there.