Here's what our farmhouse looked like in 1910 when my great grandparents and their family and fiends proudly showed off their new CarS I know a farm that's almost as old as dirt It's a century farm one hundred years old The barn is old The house is old The granary is old The people who built the farm have died The first cows and chickens and sheep are all
One hundred years is a long time But this old farm is still alive Young cows graze in the pasture Young crops in the fields reach for the sun Young kittens totter around on hay bales in the hayloft And young kids still care for their cattle in the old barn a When they were younger my kids liked to play with our dogs and cats in the hayloft The animals loved it but the kids weren't much help with chores Here I am in our old barn milking Bonnie one of our best cows
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I know because I own this farm I grew up in the middle of the century in the middle of America on this middle sized Midwestern farm For over one hundred years our old barn has stored hay for the cows to eat and straw for them to sleep on Here Grandpa is blowing straw into the hayloft ON SL When I rode my bike up and down the barn walk while Mom and Dad worked I didn't know my great grandfather had built the barn from trees cut right here on the
