9 days!!!!

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There's nothing more to learn, btw. The linked page tells us the same thing.

Anyway, I thought I'd talk about what I call the Out Building. Don't know why I call it that, other than it's a building, and it's out, haha.
This building was actually part of the farm house at one time, back in the early 1900s.
When Eva Lou Joffrion's siblings had mostly moved out and they didn't need a farm house made of 3 houses, one (whether all or in part I've never been able to figure out exactly) was deconstructed and built in the back yard as a kind of utility building. They did their ironing out there, heating the irons in the fireplace; and they had a bulk storage sort of pantry out there. I don't remember if they did the wash there or not, but they might have.
My husband's family used it as a workshop to fix their tractors when they had a lot more acreage than is there now. It has a concrete pad, so in spite of the poor condition, again, if at all possible, I'd like to save at least a good bit of it.

And I do realize it is going to take a lot of work.
Let's see if I can upload any pictures today...

The building has definitely seen better days. The building used to have electricity, too, but the power line was cut at some point. This is what it looked like that first summer after his brother told us we could buy the property. He called us one night and asked us if we'd like it. *rolls eyes* Of course we jumped on it, even though we couldn't hardly see the property that first trip.

You can see there had been an initial mowing, but the out building can barely be seen.

Summer and fall pictures of the building.

There's holes like this on both sides of the roof, but not in the same area...

 

I am guessing here that someone wanted some sort of inside access to the roof, but really I'm clueless.

The leaks have done a lot of damage, of course.

 And that's just on one side of the building.

We think they had animals here at one time. Maybe chickens...

That's the fireplace behind that... wall.
The building used to be one big "L" shaped room, but now it's two, I think. Maybe because someone used it to keep animals once? I wonder a lot, you can tell.
And of course the other side not only has a hole in the roof, and water damage, but more trash to be hauled.

And again, it's work that will wait until a while after we are finally moved in; but it would be nice to be able to clear around it enough to put one of those blue 'Southern roofs' on it. ;)
And by that, I mean to cover it with a tarp until we can get around to hopefully being able to have someone help us with that roof. Unlike some of my braver friends on the blogs I read, there is no way I would get on a roof this peaked, and certainly not in this condition.
And my husband isn't really able either, so hopefully we can find someone to do the work at a price we  consider reasonable and can afford.

Or maybe we can barter work for fresh chicken and eggs...

Happy Wednesday, everyone! :-)