One of the projects I’m working on that I haven’t yet mentioned on the blog is my reorganizing and changing up the look of our home office. It’s a disaster. I’ll talk about that in another post. In the process, I started going through old pictures, and I came across this picture of a barn filled with beautiful Burley tobacco. The Burley tobacco leaf kept my family supported and warm when I was a little girl. Perhaps I am romanticizing tobacco, but I remember the excitement of getting the check and going to settle up our grocery account at Cunningham’s Store.
At some point in the past 15-20 years, I took this picture.
Now, I cannot find the barn. I’ve lost a barn!! My sister, Pat, and my cousin, Terri, drove around all night Thursday “in our heads” hunting this barn. I’m sure we passed each other a hundred times until we pulled off and fell asleep. We think there is a possibility it is the very barn that I posted about last week (here), but I’m not sure. The picture below which was in the the previous post is the front of the barn.
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So…the above picture is the front of the barn. Here is the back side of the barn. I ran down and took these early this morning. If it is the same barn, there has been a shed added.
I was certain until I started comparing the pictures. Now I’m not certain at all. I think these are two different barns.
Here’s another view…
Would you mind sharing this post with everyone you know? Surely we can find this barn. It has to be in the Mendota/Gate City/Rich Valley/Walnut Grove area. Here it is again…
On another note…it is 70 degrees today in January! Can you believe that? My dear girl Gracie loves to roll around in dead stuff and she was stinking. It was a nice day to bathe her.
Just before her bath…she took one last roll and stretched.
“Oh Mommy…you’re going to love what I’m rolling in. It’s Skunk Poop. I’ll smell so good.”
“Mommy…why did you call me a Stinky Flower and is that doggy shampoo in your hand? Oh no!”
“I am just going to sleep and pretend this bath thing did not happen. Thank you Chrissy the Cat for staying with me during this difficult time.”
And yes, that is a wet dog lying on my couch. It just happened.
Is it the one that use to be on the Nickels property below Bob and Lanny Hurts place? Next to the conrete block house below the Shutters?
Judi…that was my first thought too. It’s not. I went and looked.
I found the exact barn in two different locations! However, the surrounding ground was not the same as the picture you have. but, boy, the barns sure were. one just below Valley Institute and the other on the steep curve on Parigan Road. Take a ride by and look at them It is the very same style! I just realized something else, I don’t know how to spell Parigan….is that right???? LOL LOL I hate misspelled words and I can’t look this up in the dictionary!
I think it’s Pairgin but that looks funny. I’m looking it up.
Just looked it up…it’s Pairgin.
And you’re certain that the surroundings are wrong for the one near Valley Institute? I sure wish I could have the “aha” moment and see that barn!! The one near Valley Institute would be one that I’d stop at and take a picture. Pairgin Road I probably would not because it is on a curve. (I’m trying to think of my thoughts when I took that picture.) I’m going to drive up Walnut Grove in the next week and see if it’s there. I remember looking at tobacco over there and telling Mike that it used to grow everywhere, blah blah…if I had a camera with me, I’d probably have also been taking a picture.
Sorry I missed your birthday. Hope it was a very good one!!
You only missed it by a day..It was a good one, thanks to kids and grandkids…I thought it was going to be a depressing day ’cause it was a BIG number, but it turned out good!! I am ALMOST over the barn thing, but not quite lol why of course, that is how to spell Pairgan..I guess I had a brain freeze