Adventures Of Life!

Are you singing the tune? I seem to always have trouble finding a title for my blog posts, do you have this issue? Well a lot of the time my titles I want to put up come out of songs I have in my head...but that is a whole nother subject! Ok I promised ya more pics of the barn demolition...Are ya gettin tired of seein this? I hope not cuz here is some more.....take it away Alex for 2000... We started the day finishing up what we didn't the last time. Misc. boards with nails in them, rotten beams layin there and a pile of old hay, sheetrock and rotten boards. Then we moved onto the task of taking down the log structure. Mtn Man really wanted to be careful in this process. He was and had been thinking hard on how to do this gracefully without destroying them. For goodness sake we are handling 170 year old logs to our best guess anyhow with a small tractor and a few tools. After much discussion we decided we needed to find our big rope to attach to the logs and we will have to pull...

I really try to avoid drama although sometimes it appears in my life despite my best efforts. Life seems to cycle through people "like sands in an hourglass"..ha ha (reminds me of a soap from long ago)! My life used to be a soap opera a lot of the time but I like to think that I have out grown that. In the last couple days I have come to realize that people I held as important do not have the same feeling toward me. I have known them for the better part of 20 years so this one hurts to my heart. I have been struggling with this for the last five years really and in the last few days have realized that loving them for so long sometimes we have to let them go. I believe that is really what they want anyhow. I feel that they have no need for me anymore...so like a mother bird letting her young go I say "Fly baby Fly". Maybe now they won't feel so obligated to me. I am letting ya off the hook if that was all you needed wish you had told me sooner. May you will find...

Our neighbors next year owns three structures that lived through the civil war. The rest in the valley were burned to the ground. One of those very structures is the barn we are disassembling a piece at a time. This barn was built in 1844. The workmanship is amazing to have lasted this long. It had been added to many years later. We are working on the original structure now. What a neat piece of history right here in our "back yard". We have been told that this area we live in was once the dividing line between the North and the South, right here in this little ol valley. Reverend Pinkney Graham (1812-1877) owned this land that all these structures are on and was well respected in these parts. So during the civil war his lands were spared from the destruction. Enjoy the pics this will be last time this barn will be standing. We hope to be able to salvage some of the logs to make a smaller structure to stay on the  neighbors farm.   If you ...