Little House on the Prairie

[Richard Flanders]

I see a fair number of houses like have been shown here while hunting in Montana, some in very nice settings amongst large cottonwoods in little river valleys. You can't help as you wander through them and see the kids toys and household goods imagining kids playing in the yard and the dogs and chickens running around. Many of these old places remind me of the house I grew up in, a 100+ yr old structure that had poplar poles for roof rafters, soybean stalks in the walls for insulation, and the old wrinkly glass in all the windows. The last two houses Jack showed would have been a pretty upscale house in their day, far nicer than what we had I can tell you. In many places both those houses would be gutted and restored. I helped restore a similar house in Michigan that had full-dimension rough cut oak for all the studs, some of which went from ground level to the roof on the second floor. I'm sure that young folks today who look at a house like that have no clue just how recently it was filled with a family and life.

[TARNATION !!!]

A little less upscale

[charlie cleveland]

this is the type house i seen growing up even it might be better than most houses espically the ones in the delta...but i did see some nice houses like the ones first pictured growing up too...was even a few mansions but they were few and far in between... the hose i was raised up till i was 6 years old was a dog trot style house only 2 big rooms with a little lean too on the back called the kitchen...one time it snowed and my dad shoveled snow out of the kitchen... on a starry night you could see the stars through the holes in the tin....the old house was ok too me i could let up a board in the floor and let our bird dog queenie in too sleep by the fire place... yep most of us here could tell about them old homes...when you dont know your not living in a mansion its still a home.... charlie

[StubTwist]

Thanks for sharing your story Charlie.

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Blind Dog]

Kids can handle anything as long as the grownups aren't complaining, but are leading.

[TARNATION !!!]

Here's a small one with a lean-to kitchen. Gotta know I walked up first with the shotgun. Did chase a nice rooster outta those weeds. Best shot was with the Canon, not the cannon.

Yea, kids are resilient. Dogs settle things easily. How is it that can get lost so easily once we're all grown up?