Anybody wanna move to Saskatchewan???

[ch]

Yes Dean me 2. The ol houses look sad. Once there was probably kids running around in them. And the cool ol barns also. ch

[Autumn Daze]

Dean hit the nail on the head for me too.Whenever I encounter one of these old house's or barn's my mind shifts to thought's of these homesteaders grit and determination.Trying to scratch out an existence for themselves and their family's and their ultimate failure.Most probably moved back to the cities in hope of work.

Another thought along the same lines is when I see all our old brick factory building from the 1800's here in New England now for the most part abandoned and empty. A reminder of our industrial might in years now long gone...On a positive note three of the factory building's that was part of the Parker family industrial empire are still in use today...Thanks for letting me reminice.....

[TARNATION !!!]

The barn here is a bit beyond a fixer-upper but the pheasants you can shoot from the porch of the house (after Francis and I built that ) make good use of the shelter around the barn. Honest, there is water in the creek that you can't quite see below.



I love these old places for the roosters that hang out around them. They also make great photos and evoke imagination of the time they were active farms. Some folks did not survive the depression era but others did. They were hardy stock and lived life their way. Some of the descendants are still in the area but they are not farming 1/4 section; rather, those who continued and made good business decisions are now farming 10 or more sections of land. Small family farms are a thing of the past and the distance between neighbors is pretty far on the open prairie.
Cheers,
Jack

Yankton SD- a great GSJ story by Jack Curtis- Skofer's run-down shack of a house-- if the stove is cast iron, tough to weld- guess I'll have to bring my portable generator to run my Skil saw etc for the rebuild- but shooting pheasants from the porch- that sounds intriguing!