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The Last Of The Fresh Tomatoes
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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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(November 1996) Sharon and I started working on the farm house the end of September. We've taken down the smokehouse, built floors in the chicken house (now called Wood Shed) to hold all the salvageable wood from the smokehouse and farm house, put in a septic system, and have degutted the inside of the old house and am in the process of taking the back section completely down to the ground. I remember my Pop once told me that the best way to learn about how a car engine works is to take one apart and then put it back together. I never did learn that lesson and can barely change the oil in my truck now, but the same principle applies to building a house too. I hope to finish the gutting/teardown by mid December and will spend most of our time during the winter pulling nails and stripping all the wood that we have taken out of the old house. We ate the last of our fresh tomatoes last night. I'll sure miss our homemade Salsa. I'm already getting excited about all the things we'll plant next spring. Yesterday I worked in the morning moving dirt in the yard and planting some winter rye grass where we had done all the septic work and then went down to my neighbors and helped him work cattle (rounding them up, giving shots, cutting horns off, branding and ear tagging). He helped me a few weeks back and we have a kind of barter system going. Once the rains came in we went over to the family tobacco barn where Larry, his brother Ronnie, an older man named Charlie and I sat and stripped tobacco as the rain danced on the tin roof... telling stories, learning history, swapping farming secrets, and getting my hands covered in sticky tobacco juice.
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Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563