Re: The Home Place

Posted by john d on May 19, 2009 at 17:29:56 from (69.130.164.251):

In Reply to: The Home Place posted by 37 chief on May 19, 2009 at 11:53:58:

My Grandparents bought this 80 acre farm in 1914. Mom and Dad moved into the old farmhouse in 1939 and Dad started farming it with a team of horses and a Farmall F12. He got a Farmall H in 1943, and I came along in 1944. By then the farm was 120 acres. In 1952 the farm became 240 acres, and we added a Farmall M. A 300U came along in '55, and a Super M in 1960. By then we were farming close to 400 acres. My grandparents lived in a house less than 1/4 mile north, and I was around them a lot.
I left the place for college in '62, and in 1970 my wife, kids, and I moved into the house my grandparents had lived in. In 1974, my wife talked my parents into building a house in a grove of trees on the south edge of the farm. We moved into the old farmhouse where I grew up.
My children got to grow up with their grandparents less than 1/4 mile south of us.
Brenda and I still live in the old farmhouse I lived in as a child. My parents are both gone now, and our son and his wife and two kids live in the house my parents built in '74. Three generations of grandkids growing up on the same farm within a quarter mile of "home."
I was able to buy the original 80 acres after my parents were gone. Our son bought a 5 acre tract from us that contains his house and a barn built in 1943.
My place has the old farmhouse built in the late 1800s, and a barn of about the same era, as well as a pole barn built in 1970.
Other than fewer fences and no livestock, the place has many similarities to the way it looked when I was a kid. Same gravel road, some of the same neighbors (or their children) and some of the same trees my sister and I played under.
I still have the Farmall H, M and SM that we used to farm with. They don't work the farm anymore, and neither do I.
There's a good feeling to being able to live in a house that's as comfortable and familiar as an old shirt. And it's so enjoyable to watch my grandchildren walk down the lane to the pond at the back of the farm the way their father did when he was a boy, and realize that they are taking the same journey I did decades ago.

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