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Farm
Journals
One Mans Trash... Is Anothers Treasure
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Butterfly Hollow Farm ____ The Path Leading Us Here ____ How The Farm Got Its Name ____ Restoring the Old Farmhouse ____ Where The Beefalo Roam ____ Saddle Up The Horses ____ Saving Wilderness and Farm Land ____ Farm Journals ____ Sharing The Farm ____ Guest Book ____ Site Map ____ |
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(February) We just love Tennessee's weather. Here it is February and a week ago we were huddled around the fireplace as some of the un-reusable wood from the farmhouse was keeping us warm . And now today the sun is out. It's almost 60 degrees and the fields are already starting to turn a deep purple from the wild Henbit that has sprouted everywhere. There is an old saying here in Tennessee......Hey, If you don't like the weather....just hang around and wait a day". Sharon's Dad has come up for a visit and the three of us have loaded up the pickup truck with crowbars, sledge hammers, chain saw and plenty of ice tea and snacks. One of our neighbors down the road had his large old barn blow down last year during a spring storm. They only wanted to keep the tin and some of the large posts and the rest was open for us, the termites, birds and any other scavengers looking for free materials to build their home. A couple days before we had already experimented with some barn wood we took from one of our old barns and built the first of the bathroom vanities. It is definitely a rustic look, but it fit so beautifully in the old farmhouse. We plan to use barn wood for some of the floors, cabinets and trim. So as one of us would pull off a prize piece of lumber, we all had to stop and oooh....ahhhh and imagine where it would eventually live in our farm house. By the end of the day we had the pickup loaded as well as a trailer. You could definitely tell that we had been there, but there was still much more we could come back and get sometime before the summer. With dirty and dusty faces and swollen muscles we quietly drove back into the hollow and closed the gate. It was an unanimous vote to wait until the morning to unload our treasures.
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Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563