The Farm, the two old chicken coops, and our Wedding Tree Sept. 1-4, 2016

The Farm, the two old chicken coops, and our Wedding Tree 

Sept. 1-4, 2016

This is the coop behind the farmhouse, you can just make out the top of the old out-house on the left of the picture, with bushes growing up around it.  
For Labor Day weekend, Dh, Dd, and I spent a few days down at the farm--where we used to live.  The farm has been in the family for generations.  Some cousins, that live on the other side of the road, now pay us to farm our land, so we don't have to.

The old coops haven't been used in decades.  See the pretty spider web I tried to capture?

Here is the Nesting Box.  The girls walk up a ramp on the side to the 'hallway' behind the boxes.  They had, I think, three 'floors' to choose from.  I opened one level for this top picture.  There are six boxes on this row.

This is what the box looked like when all closed up and ready for the chickens.  To get the eggs you'd have to open the front door, which is the top picture.

Here is a close up of the inside.  You can see the walkway behind the box.  Currently, there is a lot of leaves in the boxes; perhaps a home to some mice!

This is one of the old feeders.  The top piece of wood is on a swivel, so it turns around and around--probably to keep the chickens off the top, so they don't poop in the food.

A close up of the chicken coop behind the farm house.  One of the nicest things is that Grampy and his father, built everything themselves.  They cut the trees, waited a year for the wood to cure, then processed the trees into lumber, and then built their farm house with a instruction book they bought from a Sears Roebuck catalog!  Every thing for the farm, the chickens...whatever...they built from scratch.  It is great to look back at how they built everything, their ingenious touches that made things work just right.

This is the other coop---I didn't get a lot of pictures of it this time.

With our anniversary coming up, I wanted to take some pictures of the tree we were wed under.  We had a very small wedding--14 guests!  I made my bouquet of flowers, paid $12.00 for my "wedding dress," Dh slow cooked lots of meat in his grill, my step-father made potato salad, and Giz bought a cake.  Then we went to Red River, in Arkansas to go fly-fishing for our honeymoon.  It was a beautiful day, on the beautiful farm we used to live on.

You can see the leaves of the Black Walnut tree.  If you look closely you can see the green walnuts.

Grampy put up the swing chair for Dd to swing on.

Here come Dh and Dd walking out the gate to the tree.

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