Laurie's starting to get excited about her new barn.

[George McGovern]

"C'mon Mom, I'm Hungry!"

"I know where your grain goes, Maddie. You don't have to point."

"Oh alright. Thank You."

Putting up a temporary corral to keep Maddie separated during the barn building. Maddie checks it out.


"Hey Mom, what're you putting up down in my pasture."

"That will be a corral to protect you when the barn's getting built."
Thinking, "I'm getting a barn?", Maddie goes back to grazing.

How Laurie gets the corral panels from storage to the corral.

Putting them into place.

This is as far as we've gotten. Barn building to begin in a week or so.

Our barn at the old farm.

[SheltieLover]

1. Congrats to Laurie & Maddie on the new barn!

Will it be modeled off of the old barn?

Thx for sharing!

[George McGovern]

3. Yw SL! No, it won't. It'll be smaller due to cost and fewer horses. But it will work out. Ty!

[SheltieLover]

5. I'm sure it will be perfect!

[George McGovern]

6. Ty!

[CousinIT]

2. Beautiful horses and property!

There's nothing like country living. Hearing the wind, seeing the stars, smelling air without pipe exhaust (and uh..other farm smells).

She was giving you hell in that first photo, it appears!

[George McGovern]

4. Thank You CousinIT! In the first photo, in fact, Maddie was just yawning. It was this

photographer who 'interpreted' the look to seem pissed off is all.

Are you familiar with country living? You're absolutely right, there is nothing like it.

[CousinIT]

9. I'm just barely familiar. I used to have friends who had farms..

....large pieces of land away from cities. No city noise, no city lights. I could hear the wind even when it was just gently blowing. In the city, it has to be howling to even hear it. And just fresh air ( unless ya went in the barn and even then it was hay, feed and the occasional poo and horsey farts!)

The idea of a farmhouse with a wraparound porch and porch swings, rocking chairs....much of it is my imagination and what I remember from my high school friends.

[George McGovern]

10. Sounds like you got good memories. Thanks for replying.

[Bayard]

7. How exciting!

What kind of barn do you have in mind? The last one was huge!

I'm jealous of your tractor though, especially the front-end loader. I had a great old Ford 8N in Calif. Fully restored by the guy that sold it to me. Stolen.....

[George McGovern]

8. New barn to be forty feet long and thirty-six wide. Huge not necessary here.

Laurie's owned her New Holland more than twenty years. The front-end loader has had lots of purposes, not least of which have been lifting heavy corral panels, pushing them into place, re-righting leaning corner posts, carrying poop-laden bucketfuls out to compost piles, snow scooping, etc.

I found this website. I'm sure you still miss your 8N, but I hope it brings back good memories.

From — https://whiteknucklerbrand.com/blogs/wk-blog/the-history-of-the-ford-8n-tractor-it-takes-a-licking-and-keeps-on-ticking

"Something that set Henry Ford apart from many tractor manufacturers is that he grew up on a farm, and he fully grasped the importance that tractors had for the overall performance of the farm.

Because of his background, Ford practically made it a mission to create the best tractor that the world had ever seen to help keep farm production at its peak. Henry Ford accomplished just that with the Ford N-Series tractors."