“Here’s looking at you!” 😊
Painting, painting, painting……
That was Silvertop’s day Lol!😅
So I decided to have you follow this big arrow in the third photo……….
Do you see the dairy farmer on the tractor up ahead, he’s going back to his barn……..
Let’s follow him!😇
Silvertop wanted to show you some of these hand built structures!🤗
Weather in the Pacific Northwest can take its toll on these beautiful Barns!😮
Many were built over one hundred years ago, with hand tools, not the power tools of today!
The first gray barn is my neighbor Tim’s barn. He owns the off grid cabin that we hike past on most days!😊
Today Mr Bear had this trail all to himself Lol!😇
Tim’s barn was built with hand hewn support beams, cut from old clear grain Douglas Fir!
Even if you wanted lumber like this, it can’t be had…….
It is long gone!😲
Silvertop has Douglas Fir beams in his house, Liz and Silvertop personality lifted and placed these beams by hand!😅
They are a beautiful light golden color………..
Above my wood stove I have a dark golden Fir wood mantle …………
That my friends is the difference, old growth Douglas Fir Timbers have this dark golden color!😊
Either way they are very beautiful, and they add to the “Mountain cabin” look!☺️
You can see that the original settlers had a certain style of Barn that they were partial to!😇
The second to last is what all these barns are being used for…………
Dairy Cows!😊
Now we have the last photo……🤔
Silvertop isn’t going to tell what this is, can you guess???😇
Let me know in the replies below!
Till tomorrow Silvertop Mike 😊
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I know!.........I know!! Do I get a prize? 🙌🎉🎈
Hmmm....😇😘😍
This kind of memories stay with you forever. Not sure about the last photo, planning for a fish pond maybe? :))
It’s actually a Cow manure pond!😳
They mix it all up with water, and then used high powered water guns, and spray it on the fields for fertilizer, very stinky !😲
This is another reason we don’t live in the valley! Lol🤗
I'm familiar with cow manure and all the smells :))) , but I never witnessed a large pond just for that. Compared to other chemicals, this is a better fertilizer :)
This was a first for us as well!😳
All the dairy farmers do this……..
So glad we live up in the foothills, on some days down in the valley it can take your breath away!😬
:))))) literally :))
Lol...so very true!!😬
Is it still cold there?
Sunny and cool with a breeze, at the moment our house is staying about 62°F 😊
I'd love that weather.
I do as well my friend, I love the cool weather, and blue skies😎
Yeah. How I wish we have such weather.
I guess it’s the same for us in the winter time when you have beautiful, warm weather, my friend!😇😊
Winter time there gives us a chilly weather too, but I liked it.