At the far end of the screen porch on the west side of the house there is a storage room that had an interesting collection of junk in it. One of the items was a hose and nozzle from a gas pump.
I wondered if at one time there had been a tank somewhere to fuel the tractors and other powered equipment when this house and surrounding outbuildings had been the center of a working farm. Once again my neighbor Allen Green had the answer.
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| country store cabin |
This old cabin on the property down at the road was a little country store in the 1920's - 1940's. There is an underground fuel tank and concrete base where a gas pump once stood at the left front corner of the building. The hose is from that gas pump. According to Allen the cabin was kept up by previous owners and in good repair until about 2002 when no one lived on the property full time any longer. Once the roof started to leak and not repaired, the water rotted the logs in the back corner. The building collapsed just a couple of years ago. Too bad.
Anyway - back to the storage room. There was a rusty two man saw in the room, lots of mice droppings, glazed tiles for the kitchen back splash, red tiles from the kitchen cook stove hearth and cut nails (like the kind used for flooring) and some hand wrought iron nails in the walls for hangings tools.
We swept out the room, removed all the nails in the walls (saving them, of course), patched a couple of small holes in the floor, and loaded all the camping equipment and some of my inventory of rough rock into the room
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| all cleaned out |
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| camping equipment and cabochon rocks in crates |
On one wall be put nails back in the wall to hang all of our garden tools. One day all the tools will go into a garage/barn/workshop we will built out back by the garden area.
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| Tools, tools, tools |
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