When I was growing up my father was very fond of the phrase: Close the door, were you born in a barn? I felt this was rhetorical so I never answered, but I always wondered about the barn lifestyle.
It must be a great place to live I thought, because for one thing you apparently didn’t have to close the doors. But we lived in Levittown, Long Island in the 60’s and there were no barns anywhere to be found.
Later we moved further East to Setauket, and in the woods behind our house was a real barn, doors open and everything. The owner was said to be insane and shooting trespassers was not out of the question so I never had the nerve to see it up close.
Here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania there are almost as many barns as soccer moms who drive like Indy Car racers. And I still wonder what it would be like to live in one. I have a feeling it’s probably cold in the winter, hot in the summer, smelly and buggy.
Of course some people renovate old barns to perfection, complete with heat, air conditioning, windows and even doors that close and lock. But I think that most of the people who can afford that were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south. The simple things I see are all complicated, I look pretty young, but I’m just back-dated, yeah.
:)) My second daughter was born in a . . . horse trough! Filled with water . . . 2 hour delivery, start to finish. (More to all this story of my eccentric unusual life, but your opening line triggered that awesome memory :))
I think you will enjoy the following fella’s cartoon posts — your humor and his will certainly click :)) Dawn
https://eringillespiecartoons.wordpress.com/
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Did you give her a special horse related name like Kanthaka? I’ve always loved that name since I read it was the Buddhas favorite horse.
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No — I’m simply not THAT creative :)) Her name is Ella (short for Angelica, a family name). She’s an amazing musician, just coming out with her first CD now, and you can listen to her Celtic Harp music here:
https://ellaharp.com/bio/
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Wow that song Dirty Money is awesome! I’ll bet she’s as pretty as her mother too.
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Her music is amazing :)) Glad you got to enjoy it :))
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Lovely photo. The different colors just pop. How well I remember hearing that phrase growing up as well 😊. Plenty of barns around here too. I’ve seen renovated barns on tv. Pretty cool.
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The renovated barns rarely come with cows, that’s an extra.
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What? That doesn’t seem right. A cow for every barn and a chicken for every pot or something like that 😉
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I watch a lot of home shows and its usually either cows or shiplap. At least on Fixer Upper. 🙂
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I watch that show, too, and now I think I need shiplap in my house. I really have to have it some place. Yesterday’s rerun had shiplap on the ceiling. That’s a lot of pressure.
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Your best bet is probably to call Joanna.
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You are right but Chip would be all excited to have a demo day. Things could go south fast.
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It takes so little to make some people happy.
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😊 true. Maybe that’s a good thing.
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Mike, you rock!
You made me smile and laugh today so many times. You just can write. Please do it more often!
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Writing is hard Alena, not as hard a taking pictures of goats but its hard. 😛
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