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**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 02:51 PM

Still mastering the new computer, so new pictures are in the pipeline, but here's some scanned pictures showing our property in the 1960s 1970s and the 1980s as provided by photos.

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 02:56 PM

Getting it now.....

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:02 PM

Another shot looking North as well as a photo of the cabin taken last year.

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:05 PM

Heres a bathroom I built, with the supervision of my little sister of course. I always was building things.

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:08 PM

This is a photo of our pasture around 1980. The creek is in the distance and down a small hill. Today it is totally emersed in forest.

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:13 PM

Peeling the logs for the house I'm living in today. The small cabin pictured at the top of the page is in the background beyond the trees.

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:33 PM

Looking out toward the field from the same spot as the other photo was taken from 30 years ago. Notice a difference?

**kau** · 06-17-2010, 03:42 PM

Great photographs!

Fond memories of living without electricity or was it too tough with those North winters?

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:46 PM

More pictures of the kids!

**tractor beam** · 06-17-2010, 03:48 PM

That is from left to right......Bunn, Bently My wifes life long friend Judy, Cricket and Billy. Cooper was not in the picture here. Well, that's enough bordom for one day!

**tractor beam** · 06-21-2010, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kau

Great photographs!

Fond memories of living without electricity or was it too tough with those North winters?

It was actually fun. We bought a battery TV when I was around 12, but we mostly listened to the radio or CB at the kitchen table. The fllor boards were hand hewn and had large cracks in between and no isulation to speak of. In the spring, we'd get lots of honey and bumble bees coming through the floor, and in the winter, the dogs water bowl would freeze solid on the floor. We lived by the wood stove! We had a claw foot bath tub out on the porch and bath with water heated on the woodstove, out under the stars, even when it was 20 or 30 below zero outside. Wasn't sure if you guys would like the photos or be totally bored with them. Forums seem so steril, and impersonal, sio I thought I'd personalize it with pictures of my lifelong home!

Dugout · 06-24-2010, 02:06 PM

That's awesome. I grew up quasi rural, nothing like that.

**tractor beam** · 06-24-2010, 11:52 PM

Frankly Dugout, it even astounds me after all these years, the rich history and connection I have to the place. Every ditch water line, even the septic and backfilling the house foundation was done by hand. Me and my dad built a stone root cellar that stands to this day! We paid the place off in October, and it truly feels great to own the place outright now. Dugout, did you see the creek pictures?

rsmith335 · 07-24-2010, 05:46 PM

You know my Grandparents didn,t have indoor plumbing until they were in their 60s. I never undersood why pepole had magizenes in the bath room. In the winter it didn,t take long to take care of bussiness and you did your reading in the house.

**tractor beam** · 07-24-2010, 07:51 PM

Some of my best reading has been done in the bathroom!

TeamGreen · 12-08-2010, 10:22 AM

Amazing pictures.. Thanks for sharing.. Your one lucky fella to be living on the same place as you did when you where young.. Congrats on having it paid off also..

dieselman · 12-10-2010, 10:26 PM

Awesome pictures, makes me think back to those days too, things seemed much simpler back then. I can remember waking in the mornings when I was young and there would be fine snow on the bed quilt that had blown through or around the windows in the old house I was raised in.
Everything smelled better, looked brighter and tasted better, my kids have no idea about any of this....dieselman.

**tractor beam** · 12-11-2010, 10:18 AM

I hear you! My duties as a kid back then were hauling in water, and firewood, even in the summer, for the wood cook stove, filling the kerosene lamps, milking our cow and feeding the chickens and hogs blah blah blah.......Now, kids revolve around ipods and video games. We used to sit around listening to the radio, untilk I was about 15, when my dad bought a battery powered tv. I have a bunch of 8mm movies of our place back in the day. It amazes me that we ever lived like that, but then so did many other families in our area then too. They've run a lot of power lines here in the last decade.

dieselman · 12-11-2010, 10:43 AM

Used to have to carry firewood, milk four cows (with dads help) clean barn etc. We got power in the mid 50s man what a treat! no inside plumbing, and melted snow when the cistern went dry. Was a pain back then but I think it added much needed character to my life and to tell the truth I enjoyed the simplicity of it all.
The smell of the barn,the horse we used to clean the barn,wood smoke from the chimmeny and a hot meal for dinner, will never forget it.....dieselman.

**tractor beam** · 12-11-2010, 11:17 AM

I so here you! It makes me laugh when the power goes out and people friggin' panick, like my wife. We lost power here for about 6 hours recently, and she was chewing the enamel off her teeth. I just kicked back by the fire, and took a nap! Just embedded in my fiber I suppose, but I just revert right on back to those days. Power is great, don't get me wrong, and in fact my lifelong friend and his parents to this day, still have no power. They are on house number 4 in the same spot! First house was burned down by an old timer who thought that there were too many newcomers in the valley, this was in 1970. Second house burned down on account of a chimney fire. House number three was built from mill ends, but is falling down because it was poorly built, with a bad foundation, and house number 4 is a trailer house now. They have a hand dug well.

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