Strange things found in the forest

[ultrarunner]

Makes my family sound boring... not much except all fashioned work ethic... at least from Grandparents and Parents...

 

[Wagtail]

William Faulkner would have had a field day with my wife's family. He could have won at least one or two more Noble Prizes in Literature if he had written about her family. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

• Strong women
• Manipulative women
• Strong men
• Weak men
• S...x
• Marriage elopements to other states
• Money
• Poverty
• Drinking/Drunks
• Crime
• Great business decisions
• Control from the grave
• Droughts and failed crops
• Internal family strife
• Violence
• Failed promise
• Death bed apologies
• ...

I could go on and on and on. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

Heck, hire a ghost writer and get them published. Sounds like a series of books... 'changed names' or autobiographical, it sounds like it's got it all.

 

[Ed of all trades]

^^^ It's sounding more like an episode of the Waltons...

My grandmother grew up just down the road from there. Knew Earl and his family. From what she said it was not the Boldwin sisters That Ran the still.:shhh: Ed

 

[crash325]

On an old road, no longer in use, going to the healy ranch, I found a small gold coin. It is now lost.

In the white mountains, in a deep narrow canyon, there was a small rock hut built into the canyon wall. Lots of old cans outside it. Most notable was can shaped like a cabin and painted to look like a log cabin. That is how Log Cabin syrup was packaged long ago.

 

[ultrarunner]

My grandmother grew up just down the road from there. Knew Earl and his family. From what she said it was not the Boldwin sisters That Ran the still.:shhh: Ed

Old Judge Baldwin, the Baldwin Sisters and Papa's Recipe for what ails you...

 

[dmccarty]

Makes my family sound boring... not much except all fashioned work ethic... at least from Grandparents and Parents...

Boring is actually really good. :thumbsup::laughing::laughing::laughing: Being not bored is not all it is cut out to be sometimes.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Heck, hire a ghost writer and get them published. Sounds like a series of books... 'changed names' or autobiographical, it sounds like it's got it all.

I have thought about it... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Many in the family don't like me anyway since their usual methods of controlling men did not work with me. I told them in no uncertain terms, punctuated with adult language, on several occasions, what I thought of their control attempts. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: They backed off after a few years but that is yet another story to add to the list.

Writing about the family has been a thought of mine since there is so much subject matter but it would cause the wifey too much grief. Not that she would mind the stories, she has lived them, but because of the hassle she would get.

Later,
Dan

 

[turnkey4099]

On an old road, no longer in use, going to the healy ranch, I found a small gold coin. It is now lost.

In the white mountains, in a deep narrow canyon, there was a small rock hut built into the canyon wall. Lots of old cans outside it. Most notable was can shaped like a cabin and painted to look like a log cabin. That is how Log Cabin syrup was packaged long ago.

I "think" that we actually had a can or two of that when I was a young kid. Memory of those y ears is faint but I do know I have seen those cans before.

Harry K

 

[turnkey4099]

A Model A was also my first car... still have it today. With 5 million made they are still around in good numbers... several here on TBN have or owned Model A's

My only find in the wood of significance was a stash of old Model A parts...

The 'wheels' back in HS were mostly Model A with a few sprinkles of mid/late 30s. We could run the wheels off an "A" and get another one in a day for around $25. I wanted to kill one of my "buddies". His Grandmother died and willed him 'her car'. Went with hime to retrieve it. A pristine 1926 buick coupe (they called them something back thens, this was the 2door single seat. It had been garaged for many, many years jacked up on blocks. Odd shift pattern, it was jurst backwards from the normal. High was up and to the left. Anyhow within on season he had all the windows gonc, top chopped off. Generally ruined a car that would have been worth big bucks a few years later.

Harry K

 

[gsganzer]

I went elk hunting in Idaho near the Franck Church, River of no return wilderness, some years back. As we drove in, we went past the old Yankee Fork Gold Dredge. It was like seeing a time capsule. As we got deeper into the wilderness, you passed the old gold mining camps and cabins. We'd come across old dozers and other antiquated machinery just left to rust in the woods and some of the cabins were still pretty much intact. It had once been a gold camp with a population of 2500 at it's peak and you could see the scars of old roads, drainage and rock piles if you paid attention to the topography. A number of miles downstream from our campsite, there were some hot springs that flowed into the river. Over the years, people had arranged the river rocks to make pools that would blend the frigid river water with the hot springs. You could adjust the rocks ,like a regulator, to make the pool as hot or cold as you wanted it. After a few days of hard hiking, we took a "camp day" and soaked in the hot springs to ease our sore muscles, it was much needed.

 

[ultrarunner]

There was a time when old cars were just old... I have a few stored outside and time has not been kind... some I drove and parked and now they are mostly parts cars...

Always wanted a warehouse or barn with unlimited room... as it is... my cars are spread out in garages all over the city and in two states...

Starting to think the 40 year dream of having them all together is just that... if I sold the cars I could buy the dream place but then I wouldn't need it... Real Estate has doubled since 2012 which was the closest I came to making it happen...

Moving to another state would be a DMV nightmare... with 50 or so California Titles... and moving out the boonies wouldn't offer less chance to enjoy them...

I still do find remains of cars out in the forests... I was on Last Chance Road in Davenport California and came across a graveyard of Volkswagens... someone years ago would just park them in the middle of a redwood forest and now they are returning to nature.

 

[gsganzer]

When I hunted in Ireland, you'd come across all sorts of things, from old lime kilns to old chapels and gravesites that were probably once part of great estates. If you were near the peat bogs, you'd see where people were digging and stacking peat "logs" for fuel. We traveled on some of the old "smuggler roads" and you could see areas where the roads had been bombed to dissuade smugglers. In some places, you'd pass the old tax offices, where you paid taxes between counties. In the Wicklow mountains, you could see old tin mines, were miners had bored into the rocky mountainside like moles.

Here's a photo of me standing in the door of a tax office

 

[dodge man]

I'm a land surveyor and this was kind of an interesting find. Its a listed monument so I new where to go to look for it. Its on the Mississippi River near Dallas City Illinois on a bluff over looking the river. It would be an early triangulation station.

 

[dodge man]

Here is another one, called out on a survey that was done over 100 years ago as a monument. The first photo shows the stone, the next with a person standing on it. The stone wasn't set as the corner but just happened to be there.

 

[MossRoad]

Bigfoot is real?

They also said that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq and Anna Nicole married for love.

(without googling that, what movie was it from? )

 

[Ed of all trades]

Old Judge Baldwin, the Baldwin Sisters and Papa's Recipe for what ails you...

Try Grandpa's recipe. Ed

 

[dmccarty]

Here is another one, called out on a survey that was done over 100 years ago as a monument. The first photo shows the stone, the next with a person standing on it. The stone wasn't set as the corner but just happened to be there. ...

Wow, that is an old monument! I have found a few monuments in the woods before but they were not from 100 years ago.

I have read deeds where big, old trees or rocks were used as markers. The one I really found interesting, was a rock in the middle of a road. I don't think the road exists anymore. One corner of our property is marked with a pile of rocks and what looks like an old tractor or trailer spring. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[DT86]

I found this door and then later, a good distance apart, the frame it fits in.







It's part of a oven of some sort. The frame is made in such a way that you can tell the rest of the structure would be brick.

I'm the fourth generation on this farm but anyone who would know what its purpose is are gone, either physically or mentally.

 

[DT86]

Here is the other side.


Frame