After tons of work.....

As I said, I forgot to take "before" pictures.  But, anyone who saw these places before will know that a LOT has been accomplished.....yeah, clearing out 90 years worth of accumulation!

(If you've never been to our house or seen these sheds, you might want to skip this post.)

Click on each photo to see a larger view.

 

Basement

Former freezer room below.  Those boxes belong to the house tenants.

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The "old kitchen" shed in the back yard.  When my grandparents bought the house in 1920 it was the typical frame farmhouse with 2 rooms upstairs, 2 rooms downstairs and a room on the back for the kitchen.  

When they remodeled in 1942, they doubled the size of the house and literally took off that old kitchen room, making it into a storage building.  It was so full, you could barely get in the door.

  

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One of the machine storage sheds out near the barns.   

These two shots are "before".

 

Now for the "after" shots of the shed.

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Neither Grandaddy, Daddy nor Uncle Bob were known for keeping a neat or organized tool shop.  Plus, they saved everything.  The amount of metal, tools, equipment and trash that came out of this building is mind-boggling.

The dairy barn is swept and cleared out, too.  

This huge operation was with the help of family, the auctioneer, the metal scrap guys, and my trusty helpers from the Linden Rhodes family (they rent the farm), the house tenants, Faith and Jonathan Histand and others.  I sincerely thank them all!!! 

Considering we didn't get up here from Florida until the middle of May, this was all done in 3 months.  No wonder I'm tired!  It is such a relief and feeling of accomplishment to have this finished.  

Now we can move on to the next step --- getting the farm on the market.  Know anyone interested in a farm of about 95 acres in the middle of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia?