Posted by samn40 on September 29, 2013 at 14:34:18 from (31.51.74.24):
In Reply to: This old house posted by samn40 on September 29, 2013 at 13:53:34:
samn40 said: (quoted from post at 21:53:34 09/29/13) I have been doing my hedgecutting business for 30 years now and this week I was back in the area where I first started. Johnny D saw me cutting on my own farm with a nice shiny new yellow hedge cutter and asked me if I would cut his farm. I ended up cutting 6 farms in that area that week,
The smallest farm was a real old time Northern Irish farm belonging to a wee Mrs Irwin. Although Johnny had bought the farm he still let the old girl live in the house. Mrs I died that year and Johnny died about 1994. His son got the small farm, but he doesn't farm and decided it was a good idea to let the hedges grow for the last 3 years(economic depression!)
The state of the old homestead brought home to me how time waits for no man and reinforces how long I have been cutting. It seems like yesterday when I first visited this home
The farmer who grazes the ground just does not care and has let the cattle wreck everything! The bedrooms once occupied this space....
I remember drinking tea in this room in front of the open hearth...
And the fireplace in the 'good' room...
The pig pens....
I used to have to make sure to close these gates that led from the yard to the fields!
The old front door has seen better days....
The hedges had nearly gotten out of control...Not what Johnny or Mrs Irwin liked! The electricity still runs to the pole beside the old house....
I finally got the hedges of this old time farm back to the way the old people liked it!
The farm is 12 acres in 5 small fields....real old time Ulster!....A step back in time!
Sam
This post was edited by samn40 at 16:14:34 09/29/13.
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