Comments on: What Nobody Tells You about Living in a 100-Year-Old Farmhouse Before You Move In

By: Carmen

Carmen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:57:36 +0000

Hi! I have been reading your blog for a little while now. We have a farm house that was built in 1880-ish. I love item number 8, 9 , and 10…don’t like to think about anyone dying in our house, though! I posted a link to your page on my blog. Just wanted you to know! Have a great week!

Hugs,
Carmen

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:31:22 +0000

I just bought a 100+ year farm house…We are in the process of remodeling which I know realize we will be doing until we move out. Slanted Floors:check…mice:check,check,check…dead mice:check…extension cords:check…cold:check…pipe problems:check…

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:54:59 +0000

My farmhouse was 145 years old and it did have slanted floors and mice. I wish I still lived there. Thanks for sharing. You are so funny, you brighten my days.

By: Becky Jamison

Becky Jamison — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:46:03 +0000

I so enjoy reading your stories! This one is terrific—you always put a smile in my heart. Thank you!

By: Amy Lynn

Amy Lynn — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:30:53 +0000

Oh the smell of dead mouse in your wall in a pretty special smell. We had one that died in the heating vent to our bedroom. Just far enough in that we could not reach it but far enough out to really stink when ever the heat turned on. I hated sleeping with a lit candle in the bedroom but with out it there just was no sleeping. :mrgreen:
Oh yes the extension cords. They come in handy when your one and only outlet in the bedroom goes dead. Of course the whole house falls into shambles when one of the dogs trips on the cords and pulls it out of the wall. Thank God for batter operated alarm clocks!

By: Looking Back | Chickens in the Road

Looking Back | Chickens in the Road — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:05:54 +0000

[...] this little retrospective into my photo files looking for a picture of the foddershock at the old farmhouse from last year. I wanted to make a foddershock and had planned to get corn stalks from Georgia, but [...]

By: amber swafford

amber swafford — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:20:47 +0000

I absolutely love your site. I found out about it this evening while checking the news on WSAZ.com. Beautiful pics, love the goat stories,…and they have to be real…we raised goats for a long time…they are the best. And the old houses, been there done that and loved it.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:34:27 +0000

We kept our washer and dryer each on a wooden pallet in our cellar. Why? Because whenever it rained hard or spring thawed the show, our old cellar would routinely have water in it. The cement floor has been patched so much over the years that there are high and low spots so that not all the water would head toward the hole in the center of the room.

My parents kept a long handled squeegee and an old broom down there just for such occasions: “Kids, get on down to the cellar and sweep that water out!”

Being a teen in the late 1980s meant this was a mortifying chore for me. Heh.

By: Barbara Jacobs

Barbara Jacobs — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:51:24 +0000

So glad to have found your website, looking for French bread recipes. We also live in an old farmhouse, which will be 100 years old in 2009. We hope to have a celebration. It was a working dairy farm of 40 some acres and many of the old timers have great stories to tell. We only have 9 tenths of an acre and are now at the edge of town. We are only the third owner. The first from 1909-1920, then 1920-1988, and then us. We have worked hard to “restore” not remodel, and love the wallpaper and high ceilings.
I will try your French bread! Continue to enjoy your home, as there is nothing better than that old house with character.

Barb Jacobs
barbj@olypen.com

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:24:14 +0000

I loved this! I can feel for you as I have been there done that and bought the tshirt (well the long john version). We rented a >100 year old beauty for 3 years. We moved in in Oct which was unseasonably warm but Dec was just the opposite and we were poor at that time and could only afford a small “Tin Wood Stove” for the living room. We threw a mattress on the floor and our 2 teenage girls, my hubby and I all slept beside the stove on a full size mattress. DH and I took turns sleeping and watching the fire afraid we would burn down the house or the fire would go out. Ah those were the days! My girls loved it though.