Happy Birthday Dad! Dad would have been 90 years old today, but a heart attack followed by cancer took his life at what we now call an early age. If you go to cemetaries and search old graves you will find the age listed in years, months and days. Dad lived 65 years, 7 months and 20 days, if I did the counting right. That is young because if I count my age the same way I'm 65 years, 7 months and 27 days. I've now lived longer than my father.
Well what does that have to do with this farm and the fixing of this barn, quite a bit. Mom was raised on this farm and they were married in this house. Then after a couple years of marriage the story goes that dad helped his father in law, my grandfather, Edward Geiger build the machine shed that you have seen from time to time and will in the future, photos of the barn.
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| Shed and barn at sunrise today |
The shed likes just about like it did when it was built in the late 40s. The cement floor was finally poured in the mid 70s. We did a little remodeling and added the side entrance when we celebrated Grandma Geiger's 100th birthday the summer of 2007.
We have noted the barn being closed in and that would help keep the wind off the workers and allow them to work longer into the winter. But look below for the surprise found today.
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| Propane heater |
Roger and crew are adding posts and posts require cement footings to sit on. The guys dig a hole in the floor, mix cement by hand and pour into forms fashioned in the hole. Roger says the cement needs to be kept warm for some time while it cures. That's true, but you'd be surprised how it helps warm up the barn just a little.
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