Animals
I had a request for more pictures of the old log cabin by the road....and especially for indoor photos. This log cabin is over 200 years old and was inhabited until sometime in the 1960's. It is quite rustic and drafty.
It sits on top of an underground spring. That spring served as drinking water for the settlers that lived here. Having their water supply beneath their house was a safety issue...as there were also Indians that lived in this area and several historical accounts of local massecres. It was much safer to drop a bucket through a hole in the floor to obtain drinking water that it would have been to venture out to get water from the nearby stream. 
This spring water fills the basement and trickles out beneath the door on the side....underneath the driveway and down to our pond.
We keep the cabin padlocked for security reasons.
Isn't the old paint wonderful?
Let's go inside.....
I can't imagine actually living here. But it is a wonderful structure. 
The floors are slanted, the ceilings are low and the inside walls are the opposite side of the outside....logs and chinking. Layers of old paint on the ceiling....
Old glass in the windows.....rippled and bubbled.
Interior walls still have remants of old wallpaper and old newspapers hang between the wallpapers as insulation.
Let's go upstairs to the second floor.
Two bedrooms are on the second floor.
The door to the attic.....
Another tiny stairway to the attic....
A wonderful old piece of (treadle) sewing advertisement hangs on the back of the attic door....
Heading back down the stairs....notice how low the ceiling is and how narrow the stairway. This cabin was built at a time when people were much smaller than today.
A few years ago we met a woman who actually inhabited this house years ago. She and her son had rented it from the farmer that owned the land. We are quite fortunate to have this piece of history right here on our property. I imagine it is one of the oldest structures in the county.
- Moonie, The Mooch
At the base of our driveway is a wonderful historic landmark....a 250 year old log cabin. Once a one room log cabin built over a spring,it was enlarged to include a second downstairs room and an upstairs. The date of this renovation is unknown. Although...
- Breaking And Entering
Monday morning, as I tended to morning chores, I walked down through the dry lotto the pigs' stall and found that the uppermost board across their door had been knocked down during the night. Any guesses who the perpetrator was? You got it....Moonbeam.I...
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We are in that time of year when there is not much naturally occurring nutrition available for our animals. As you can see in this picture our front pasture is dry and barren.Yet, every day the horses love to go out and forage.They find precious...
- On The Subject Of Housebreaking Goats......
So often when I talk of our goats,I talk about our fainting goats.We have a second breed of goat, though...our Nigerian Dwarf goats. Two years ago, we started out with a pair of pregnant does, Star and Ash... Pregnant, these two were half the...
- Construction Update
Things are moving along....seemingly slowly, but, yet each week the house ends up looking a little more like we have envisioned it. This week the well was dug....unfortunately, they had to dig about 200 yards away from the house to find water that did...
Animals
House Tour
I had a request for more pictures of the old log cabin by the road....and especially for indoor photos. This log cabin is over 200 years old and was inhabited until sometime in the 1960's. It is quite rustic and drafty.
It sits on top of an underground spring. That spring served as drinking water for the settlers that lived here. Having their water supply beneath their house was a safety issue...as there were also Indians that lived in this area and several historical accounts of local massecres. It was much safer to drop a bucket through a hole in the floor to obtain drinking water that it would have been to venture out to get water from the nearby stream. This spring water fills the basement and trickles out beneath the door on the side....underneath the driveway and down to our pond. We keep the cabin padlocked for security reasons.Isn't the old paint wonderful?Let's go inside.....I can't imagine actually living here. But it is a wonderful structure. The floors are slanted, the ceilings are low and the inside walls are the opposite side of the outside....logs and chinking. Layers of old paint on the ceiling....Old glass in the windows.....rippled and bubbled. Interior walls still have remants of old wallpaper and old newspapers hang between the wallpapers as insulation.Let's go upstairs to the second floor.
Two bedrooms are on the second floor.The door to the attic.....Another tiny stairway to the attic....A wonderful old piece of (treadle) sewing advertisement hangs on the back of the attic door....Heading back down the stairs....notice how low the ceiling is and how narrow the stairway. This cabin was built at a time when people were much smaller than today.A few years ago we met a woman who actually inhabited this house years ago. She and her son had rented it from the farmer that owned the land. We are quite fortunate to have this piece of history right here on our property. I imagine it is one of the oldest structures in the county.
- Moonie, The Mooch
At the base of our driveway is a wonderful historic landmark....a 250 year old log cabin. Once a one room log cabin built over a spring,it was enlarged to include a second downstairs room and an upstairs. The date of this renovation is unknown. Although...
- Breaking And Entering
Monday morning, as I tended to morning chores, I walked down through the dry lotto the pigs' stall and found that the uppermost board across their door had been knocked down during the night. Any guesses who the perpetrator was? You got it....Moonbeam.I...
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We are in that time of year when there is not much naturally occurring nutrition available for our animals. As you can see in this picture our front pasture is dry and barren.Yet, every day the horses love to go out and forage.They find precious...
- On The Subject Of Housebreaking Goats......
So often when I talk of our goats,I talk about our fainting goats.We have a second breed of goat, though...our Nigerian Dwarf goats. Two years ago, we started out with a pair of pregnant does, Star and Ash... Pregnant, these two were half the...
- Construction Update
Things are moving along....seemingly slowly, but, yet each week the house ends up looking a little more like we have envisioned it. This week the well was dug....unfortunately, they had to dig about 200 yards away from the house to find water that did...