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Home Place: Abandoned house on CWB inspires reflection The sight of a wonderful old house prompted Tony Harvey to imagine some earlier times which may have been better. "We call it progress, today, but really at what cost?" He asked. And comes up with a suggestion on continuing to enjoy simple pleasures from a few decades ago, "Turn off the cell phone, leave the desktop or laptop turned off as well. Forget about watching your favorite program that comes on tonight. Take the time too sit and smell the roses." Click on headline for complete story with photo By Tony Harvey While out driving one day this small house caught my eye, so I came back to get a closer look. To the average motorist passing by it looks to be just another run down abandoned home. To me, in it's day it was a beautiful place to live and if those walls could speak, imagine they would possibly tell this story. Imagine the wonderful meals cooked here Just as the early time of day that I drove by there's been untold many breakfasts cooked the upon wood stove. One can almost smell the aroma of the biscuits and gravy being prepared for the family. The man of the house, I'm sure had been up at the break of dawn many hours before the rest of the family. To go with the meal were the freshly cooked sausage and eggs, the latter coming from the hen house, and not the local Walmart or IGA. It's a small house by today's standards but it was plenty big enough for the family of four who once lived there. The days spent here were full of chores that needed to be done everyday in order to insure food being on the table. After those things were done, the children were off to school if they were old enough to attend. Imagine the trip to and from the house, before school busses To get there though they walked both ways everyday 3-4 miles on a gravel road, there were no buses to pick them up back in those days. There were also no snow days to keep them from going to school, if it were to snow they still had to walk. Occasionally, if they were lucky a neighbor from nearby would happen along in a pickup or with a tractor and wagon, and they would take them as far as they were going. Other days they might be going the same direction as the school and they would get dropped off at school. The children were in no danger as in todays society, that's way it was back then. While away and the man of the house was out working the fields or cleaning a fence row for a neighbor. Imagine a mother busy cleaning and washing The lady of the house was busy washing and cleaning things around the house. After that was all done she probably spent her free time outdoors tending to the beautiful flowers, that can still be seen growing here today. If it was the right time of the year, she might be seen picking up the apples or pears that grew on the tree that can be seen to the right of the house. From these she could make the best home made apple pie or fried apple pies. From the pears, she more than likely prepared some pear preserves. While yes some of these things are still being done today, isn't it so much more convenient to pick them up at the grocery store? Imagine sitting on a porch on the backside of the house If one looks closely there appears to be a porch on the backside of the house, there have been plenty of hours spent there relaxing at the end of the day. You see, then there were no big screen TV's to sit and watch, they may have been fortunate to own a small battery operated radio. That was all the entertainment they knew, along with a checker board and the kids playing marbles was as exciting to them as a Nintendo or a X-box today. Oh, I forgot to tell you there was no electricity this far out back then, one needed to live in town to have that luxury. It was a slower way of life to be sure, but it was in this writers opinion so much easier and better. As compared to todays fast pace life of constantly on the go and never taking the time to really sit down to just relax. And now, imagine getting back to that more tranquil era Turn off the cell phone, leave the desktop or laptop turned off as well. Forget about watching your favorite program that comes on tonight. Take the time to sit and smell the roses. Today this small home sets within a stones throw off the by-pass which was recently built, for the family that once lived here if they were around today. Would probably wonder, why would someone go and build a road so close to their little slice of heaven? We call it progress today, but really at what cost? This story was posted on 2009-04-27 14:10:06
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