Re: My Great Grand Father's Gift to my children.

Posted by Texasmark1 on August 14, 2016 at 06:09:53 from (184.20.237.101):

In Reply to: My Great Grand Father's Gift to my children. posted by JD Seller on August 13, 2016 at 20:34:07:

Thanks for the story.

My family tree consisted of all urban dwellers. Wife and I wanted to try country life for several reasons so we bought bare acreage and built the first stage of the current house with our kids back in 1979. Out of pocket money was $10k for 1400 sq ft, pier and beam, frame, which later became the main part of the house as the family grew and we added on. Took 45 hard working days (60 calendar) to get it inhabitable and move in.

A goodly part of the contents were scrounged from a trader guy in the nearest town including most of the plumbing, electrical, insulation, and 100 sheets of ½" 4x8 decking at $7 a sheet. My youngest son was at a young age at the time, but he helped as much as he could. Of all the siblings, for various reasons, he's the one who deserves this farm, will appreciate and make use of it, and to him especially it's HOME.

I'm on the back side of the mountain and no telling when I will hit flat land. As I conduct my day to day activities, I often think about what he will be doing when it's his. Something as simple as my putting something in a particular place wondering if he will know to look for it. Things like will he know how to operate this and that. Will he know how to do what it took me 37 years to learn?

We started with goats because we couldn't afford cows. The goat sheds were built from an old late 1800's 2 story "T" shaped farm house several miles away that I bought for $250 if I would tear it down.....didn't know what I was getting into on that deal. Timbers were real dimensions and nails were rectangular........try driving a nail into that stuff and forget it! The window glass was so old that it had settled in the frames. I didn't know glass would do that, but it will.

I still use one of the sheds we built back then and every time I look at it I am reminded of what it took to get going. I know he will remember too.

I read somewhere, from a reliable source, that we are judged not by what we do, but what we leave behind. Hopefully I can make a passing grade.

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