Ky hills
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Hard to believe that after well over 100 years and being as sturdy built as it was that cigarettes thrown down into a planter would be it's demise.
The fire started in a planter on the porch in the front of the house. It spread out as it went up. Being an older house there was no divide n the studs between the floors and the fire went all the way up into the roof trusses.
An old railroad section house, that was said to have been moved to its current location by horses. It was built with rough lumber and square nails.
Sad to see such a waste but we didn't have the means to try to restore it after the fire damage nor would it have been practical to have tried.
I've seen the house there all the time growing up, it belonged at that time to my grandmother. Now it's an empty lot as of today.
Trying to move forward to a new venture as the rent from that house was part of our much needed income.
We are leaning towards putting a metal building home or a trailer back in its place if we can.
My wife has a vision of using the barn on that property for a wedding barn. She wants to have a road from the eventual house and have carriage rides or tractor and wagon rides to the barn.
My 2 cents idea is to have a few chromed up Longhorns in the field around it if we go that route.
Still considering selling out all together though and heading a ways south too, if things were to line up right.
The fire started in a planter on the porch in the front of the house. It spread out as it went up. Being an older house there was no divide n the studs between the floors and the fire went all the way up into the roof trusses.
An old railroad section house, that was said to have been moved to its current location by horses. It was built with rough lumber and square nails.
Sad to see such a waste but we didn't have the means to try to restore it after the fire damage nor would it have been practical to have tried.
I've seen the house there all the time growing up, it belonged at that time to my grandmother. Now it's an empty lot as of today.
Trying to move forward to a new venture as the rent from that house was part of our much needed income.
We are leaning towards putting a metal building home or a trailer back in its place if we can.
My wife has a vision of using the barn on that property for a wedding barn. She wants to have a road from the eventual house and have carriage rides or tractor and wagon rides to the barn.
My 2 cents idea is to have a few chromed up Longhorns in the field around it if we go that route.
Still considering selling out all together though and heading a ways south too, if things were to line up right.