And now it would be occupied by this barn for two hundred years and it had only taken a day to put it all together. Thick sandwiches, cold fried chicken, meat loaf, beans with bacon, biscuits with honey and butter, corn bread, apple muffins, blueberry and strawberry cobblers, iced tea and lemonade so sour it could make your ears pop. We always ate dinner as a family and shortly after my father would grab his lunch pail and thermos and head for the saw mill where he was the overnight foreman. The pipe crew found their way up there in ones and twos. I just can’t take any more of that. The boys work on the pipe crews and the girls work on our farm. We had our fun of course. The crown purlin cantilevered ten feet out past the end of the barn on each end. You stick close to me, I can’t see as well as I used to and I need your eyes and feet.”
“Yes sir.” I was a little disappointed I was relegated
