Saturday, April 28, 2012

Old Shed

 Everytime i go to Les Schwab North in Bend, i always want to take pictures of this old shed. Thursday was the day!!  Light was fairly good, overcast and i had my camera!! Liked the way last years grass was waving in the wind.
 It was very strange, it is a wonder what it was used for. BUT it had a basement! Which is a rarity in Central Oregon as there is not usually much earth on top of the hard pan. You hit LOTS of rock!! And u could see the rock at the bottom of the house, the whole floor was gone. the place was pretty well trashed.  Liked the door tho' That would be neat to have for something cool, re-purpose to ???
It just seems i go by old houses, sheds, what ever, then at some point they are just gone, burned, moved??  who knows where they go.  I like pictures of old houses and especially sheds that people manufacture for whatever use.  We have always had lots of sheds on the places Mom & Dad owned.  When his barn burned down on Iris Lane in Culver, when he put in the new one, closer to the house, he built a shed to put all the gas/oil in. Had a shed for the wood for the fireplace.  Built a shed out by the garden for mom. that was a neat one had windows, shelves and a work bench. then built a lean-to onto it for the swather.  He just kept adding on, where ever he needed to put something or store something, as i am sure others in other places did the same.

6 comments:

  1. I would like to find a small piece of property with several outbuildings, don't need a house. I could use it as a home base for my RV.

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  2. I agree with Teri, it would be neat to have a piece of property like that. I'll bet it wouldn't be that hard to find. Outbuildings are all over the place in the country. My last house had a pretty big storage shed with a window, concrete floor and a work bench with electricity. I only used it for storage, but someone must have used it as a work place.

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  3. When we had our mountain home in Montana, we had built a deck out in the meadow, maybe 200 feet from the house, and were in the process of building a cover on it, and had plans to build a "carriage house" for parking a vehicle or two and to store stuff. Then came the bad word that we had to leave the state (my job closed down there and I was transferred), so we never got to complete the projects. We wonder sometimes what our life would be like today if we'd been able to stay there!

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  4. I always wonder when I see those falling down sheds and houses, what happened to the people who built them and loved them.

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  5. I have the same feelings about those old places as Sherry - people laughed and cried, were born and died in them. If the walls could talk...

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  6. Love, love, love the old door too - that was the first thing I noticed and thought to myself that it would be so cool to have! :)

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