12 days and not counting

So, I'm going to see if Blogger will be nice today.
I was going to talk about the barn. Hubby teased me that it wasn't a barn, but they used to have a small dairy when he was growing up and that was where they kept the cows. They got rid of them back in the 60s, I think, when farmers dumped their milk in ditches because they couldn't get paid what it cost them to make it.

Probably 50% of the barn needs to be torn down. But the center section is still mostly sound. We store stuff in it and it stays dry so I'm hoping we can at least save that section.

Here is what the barn usually looks like when we get there in the summer.

Well, that worked. Sort of. Only took three times as long to upload, but better than nothing.

So here is how the barn looks after we mow.<\strike>

Nope. One picture is all I get today. Ugh. Oh well. I don't 
I tried something new. Uploaded to Google's Picasa Web album. That seems like it might have worked.
Anyway, you can't see it from here, but the left section where the hay is, and the right section behind all the green, probably needs to come down. I haven't been in the right section much, but the left section actually has the roof on the hay. That hay is OLD. When we were on the property in '94 that hay was there then. We'll probably till it under somewhere, or maybe just burn it, but that's way down the list for stuff that needs doing.

Here is how barn usually looks when we go in the fall.

You can  see a little more of it when the green is dead.
Here is stuff that needs to be got rid of. Stuff that hubby doesn't even remember why it came to be there. The pipe that looks like fencing might have been from the fence they had to keep the dairy cattle in, but it's not really anything but trash any more.

I think that slatted thing was probably used to feed hay to the cows? Just guessing.
And you can see where the main section needs work.

But as I said, it's still mostly sound. Well, to look at it seems that way. Haven't actually touched it or pushed on it or anything. I figure if it has survived all the hurricanes and keeps stuff dry, then it is mostly sound.
There is so much clearing to do though.

And of course, even the barn has poison ivy that we need to look out for. Ugh. I need to find some goats to rent!

Anyway, that's it for the barn. Lots of work, but work that will wait for sometime after we are there. It's pretty much far down the list except for the clearing that needs to be done at the fence and we need to talk with the neighbor about getting that done because some of it is on their property.


Happy Sunday all!