Barn Charm- May 14, 2012 (from Junie's Place blog)

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Barn Charm_May 14,2012

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Every year we make a trip to the north Alabama where my husband grew up. I enjoy riding around the countryside and seeing many old barns that still stand. My husband has memories and connections to  a lot of them and, especially, to this one.

This barn is on the land where my husband's family lived  for several years - from the time he was a little guy until he was about age 15 - if I remember correctly!

The area was known as Mud Bottom,located near the Elk River.

The house that they lived in is not there anymore

 (having been replaced years ago with a new one)

  but the surrounding fields still have crops of cotton or corn growing each year and the old barn still stands!

Love,

Junie

Barn Charm_April 11, 2011- Another Alabama Barn

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This is  a barn in northern Alabama that was in the neighborhood where my husband grew up.  He remembers playing in this barn with friends, as a young boy! 

 This barn still stands and is still in use! It looks great. 

 We usually ride by it every visit we make up there. This pic is pretty recent...I think  it was 2 years ago!

Junie

Barn Charm~April 4, 2011

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Barn Charm

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This is a new Picture meme for me but I love old barns and farm buildings so I want to share this one here.

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This is a log cotton shed that stood, and still stands, on the place where my husband lived as a young boy.  

His memories of this place date from the mid-30s. This is in north Alabama.

At the time his family lived there, all the barns and out-buildings and even the house were made of logs.

This is all that remains today of the old log buildings.

We go back every summer to see if the cotton shed is still standing...as of last August, it still was!

~Much more about this cotton shed~



Junie

The Rent Crib

This is a small corn crib (the rent crib) that still stands on the old home place where my husband lived in his youth! This crib was used to store the 1/3 of the corn crop, which went to the landlord for rent of the farm.

This is in Limestone Co, Alabama in the farming area known as Mud Bottom, near the banks of Elk River.






Junie

Cotton Fields

Charles has many stories of picking cotton, chopping cotton, plowing the fields and planting the cotton ... and of playing in piles of cotton as a kid - with his brothers, sisters and cousins! All things cotton ~ in fact! ;)

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This is a modern day cotton field and an OLD red barn! This is near the place where Charles grew up! This farm is near Athens, Al~ the 'town' of my husband's childhood and teen years.

I can imagine that this cotton field looks pretty much as it would have in the early days...though modern ways of growing and gathering of the crops are totally different now! ( Thank goodness for that!)

We got these pictures on a recent trip back to Alabama.


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Some stories of cotton picking/chopping days are coming up soon! :)

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And this~~~

Junie