Life on the farm

[2LaneCruzer]

Beautiful. What does it look like in January?

 

[LouNY]

This is a series of nice photos and information,
very interesting to see and read the history.
Unfortunately so much of the local history of the small farms and villages has been lost.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Beautiful. What does it look like in January?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

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Great picture! :thumbsup: I couldn't stop laughing! No wonder you Yankees won the war...any one who can survive those Winters have to be tough!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

One of my drone videos at the farm.

YouTube

 

[Alien]

Pretty sure that was the first all metal Cessna. Got to have a fly in one a few years ago.

 

[Alien]

Nice video Buckeye. I was born in '48 so I have few pics of them times. I do have this one of me standing in front of the propellor of my late uncles private Auster. That plane is still flying to this day.
Photo would have to be 62-63 years old.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Nice video Buckeye. I was born in '48 so I have few pics of them times. I do have this one of me standing in front of the propellor of my late uncles private Auster. That plane is still flying to this day.
Photo would have to be 62-63 years old.

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very nice!

 

[fried1765]

Pretty sure that was the first all metal Cessna. Got to have a fly in one a few years ago.

Cessna 140

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Another drone video. The deer are in the field above the pond. It’s actually pretty steep, but looks flat in the video.

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Found this picture of the pond taken in 1983 when it wasn’t grown up so much.

 

[bindian]

Dont get back to visit as often as I'd like.

The garage was built in the late 40's or early 50's, I'll have to ask.

Buckeyefarmer,
Ask every kind of question you can think of of your family's history and document it all. Mom and Dad died in 2008 and 2009 and every other day I have questions I want to ask and can't.
hugs, Brandi

 

[workinonit]

Buckeyefarmer,
Ask every kind of question you can think of of your family's history and document it all. Mom and Dad died in 2008 and 2009 and every other day I have questions I want to ask and can't.
hugs, Brandi

+1 Brandi. I sure miss being able to ask those questions as well as getting sage advice. Funny how uninformed we thought they were when we were teenagers and how smart we think they are now. Mine both passed away last year within 6 months of each other.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeyefarmer,
Ask every kind of question you can think of of your family's history and document it all. Mom and Dad died in 2008 and 2009 and every other day I have questions I want to ask and can't.
hugs, Brandi

I’ve been trying to get as much genealogy info as I can from my dad. He told me some more last visit I didn’t know.
Already found some old pictures from the 30s that my mom would have known about but dad doesn’t know.
I researched all the original landowners of our farm since the US govt sold it as the NW territory in the early 1800s. Dads farm was not always in our family, My cousin still owns my grandfathers farm that was bought from the govt.

 

[bindian]

+1 Brandi. I sure miss being able to ask those questions as well as getting sage advice. Funny how uninformed we thought they were when we were teenagers and how smart we think they are now. Mine both passed away last year within 6 months of each other.

Mom and Dad past away a hair over 6 months. They were together 49 years.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I’ve been trying to get as much genealogy info as I can from my dad. He told me some more last visit I didn’t know.
Already found some old pictures from the 30s that my mom would have known about but dad doesn’t know.
I researched all the original landowners of our farm since the US govt sold it as the NW territory in the early 1800s. Dads farm was not always in our family, My cousin still owns my grandfathers farm that was bought from the govt.

My Grandpa won his Texas Panhandle 580 acre farm in a poker game. My cousin bought all the farm from all my aunts and uncles. Since he was raised a mile from the farm, he stayed a lot with Grandpa after Grandma died.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Doofy]

I've been gone from Texas for 57 years but still have relatives farming the land. One Aunt is 102. I wish I would have paid more attention when family was mentioned. Now, most of that knowledge is gone.

 

[bindian]

I've been gone from Texas for 57 years but still have relatives farming the land. One Aunt is 102. I wish I would have paid more attention when family was mentioned. Now, most of that knowledge is gone.

Doofy,
At least you are in my 2nd favorite state. When TDY back in 1983-1984, in Fairbanks and Anchorage working on helicopters.......I told my boss if I had came to Alaska before getting married...................I would have moved to Alaska.

I was working for Air Logisitics then. They had bases all over Alaska back then. I was in Fairbanks in December and Anchorage and Nome in August.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Doofy]

Doofy,
At least you are in my 2nd favorite state. When TDY back in 1983-1984, in Fairbanks and Anchorage working on helicopters.......I told my boss if I had came to Alaska before getting married...................I would have moved to Alaska.

I was working for Air Logisitics then. They had bases all over Alaska back then. I was in Fairbanks in December and Anchorage and Nome in August.
hugs, Brandi

Alaska was the best move we ever made but all good things must come to an end. This is not the same great place. Crime and drug use is high and a lot of the independent spirit and pride is gone. If their hand isn't out for the welfare then it's probably trying to get in your pocket. Seriously considering moving back to Texas and have begun looking at houses and even subscribing to our old newspaper. Not much has really changed there in last 3 decades.

 

[bindian]

Seriously considering moving back to Texas and have begun looking at houses and even subscribing to our old newspaper. Not much has really changed there in last 3 decades.

Just out of staters moving in and giving folks like robert francis o'rouke more to crow about.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Doofy]

Just out of staters moving in and giving folks like robert francis o'rouke more to crow about.
hugs, Brandi

Hopefully, since I am a Native-born Texan, I will fit right back in. The Wife is ornery enough to fit in too. The independent and conservative values of Texas and Alaska are not that much different.