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<blockquote data-quote="sstterry" data-source="post: 1573236" data-attributes="member: 28912"><p>You guys sure are making me feel like a youngster and I just turned 60. </p><p></p><p>Bruno, we always got fresh tenderloin for supper after a day of killing hogs. I hate brains and souse meat though (Along with possum that is nasty meat).</p><p></p><p>My father traded my Great great grandfather's mounted calvary saber for a mule harness back in the early '50s (he just confessed this to me a few years ago when my son's Eagle Project dealt with Civil War Graves). The man he traded it too was his best friend and I asked about it and he said that the saber was long long gone. I did get an original very rare Civil War cap and ball pistol from him though along with it's entire history as a thank you for helping him recently.</p><p></p><p>My Great Grandfather was fairly well to do as a contractor building railroads with mules and owning a general store. I just paid $250 on eBay for a 5 cent tin token used as script from his general store back during the depression. It was the first one I have ever seen available since it is very rare. He was one of the first to have running water in the house he built around 1900 from a concrete rain water tank on the hill where the water was piped to the house. The tank is still in use to provide water at my barn. And I use the old mule barn to store hay in. My mother still lives in the house that he built and it is constructed of double brick walls. </p><p></p><p>I guess the point of my tome is that I don't know what will happen to the farm when I am gone because my son works in Washington and I doubt my daughter will have any interest in farming. I just hate to see 6 generations of labor and love gone after all this time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sstterry, post: 1573236, member: 28912"] You guys sure are making me feel like a youngster and I just turned 60. Bruno, we always got fresh tenderloin for supper after a day of killing hogs. I hate brains and souse meat though (Along with possum that is nasty meat). My father traded my Great great grandfather's mounted calvary saber for a mule harness back in the early '50s (he just confessed this to me a few years ago when my son's Eagle Project dealt with Civil War Graves). The man he traded it too was his best friend and I asked about it and he said that the saber was long long gone. I did get an original very rare Civil War cap and ball pistol from him though along with it's entire history as a thank you for helping him recently. My Great Grandfather was fairly well to do as a contractor building railroads with mules and owning a general store. I just paid $250 on eBay for a 5 cent tin token used as script from his general store back during the depression. It was the first one I have ever seen available since it is very rare. He was one of the first to have running water in the house he built around 1900 from a concrete rain water tank on the hill where the water was piped to the house. The tank is still in use to provide water at my barn. And I use the old mule barn to store hay in. My mother still lives in the house that he built and it is constructed of double brick walls. I guess the point of my tome is that I don't know what will happen to the farm when I am gone because my son works in Washington and I doubt my daughter will have any interest in farming. I just hate to see 6 generations of labor and love gone after all this time. [/QUOTE]
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