Then
Here are the “Then” pictures of the “barn”. These pictures were taken a couple days after we moved in. I will post the Now pictures in the next post
This “barn” used to have cows in it. It was evident that the barn hadn’t been used in a number of years. I am very sure we upset more than one local critter in the clean up phase. Needless to say, this wasn’t near the top of our priority list of things that needed to be done. We were planning on getting a horse eventually, so clean up and renovation was on the list, but almost at the bottom.
I have mentioned before that barns in the part of the country is a term used lightly. In Ohio this would considered a “lean-to”. (If it was real lucky)
The horse came sooner than we had anticipated so the project got pushed up on the list. We could have the horse as soon as renovation of some kind was done and the area was made safe. Boy, that was a chore. There was baling wire, boards with nails, loose nails on the ground, water pipes that went who knows where, a frost free hydrant that didn’t work and we didn’t know why, nails sticking out of boards on the walls, buried RR ties, pieces of plywood buried, and a lot of buried fencing and gates plus no turn out area I would be willing to put a dog in.
That’s about it for the “Then”. The “Now” will be in the next post.
Cindy
