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Original house (12 by 26 feet) built 1926. Addition added in 1929, a "bumper-crop" year and can be seen in the photo. Front door faces the camera, central stove pipe is that of the heating pot-belly wood-burning stove and stove pipe on left is that of the wood-burning cook stove with warming oven---a real luxury. New chicken house can be seen in the distance under constuction. Between the chicken house and back porch can be seen the framework for the water bucket pulley with which we drew water up out of the underground cistern which filled from roof runoff during rains. Our land extended as far as the eye can see in the picture and as far behind. It was a 640-acre, one-mile-square section of land. Our fields were behind us here and were about 300 acres. Many, many happy memories I have from this home where I learned to exist and live and not to expect the fine things of life so to speak, but to love and to be satisfied with all that God blessed us with here. Drafted from here into the Army in January 1943. The folks sold the place in 1943 and moved to Albuquerque. The house is gone now because the new owner is a rancher and has torn down all improvements to leave just grassland. This is the place I first became interested in amateur radio and built my first radio at age eight (with dad's help). (Return to Homepage) |
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