Possum Trot

 

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 The farm we call Possum Trot isn't actually a farm or at least it hasn't been farmed for more than 90 years that we know of.  It is hard to imagine it was ever farmed for a living.  My great, great grandfather purchased the land over 100 years ago and named it Possum Trot.  My grandfather built the cabin there and did some clearing, planted some fruit trees, ran goats and hogs in the woods and used the place as a retreat from the hustle of the real world which is how we use it today (no goats or hogs, though).  He built the cabin and surrounding buildings (none of which is still standing save the chic sale which now sports new siding and a steel roof) using labor that he paid for with food during the depression in the late twenty's and early thirty's of the last century.  By 1975, the cabin had rotted beyond the point of redemption and we began to tear it down.  Since about 1987, we have been rebuilding and the cabin is now quite livable with double pane windows, screens, steel doors, insulation, and recently a kitchen and bathroom.  We have even installed most of a solar electricity system.  Here are some photos to give you an idea of how we spend our time.

      

The cabin.  My grandfather built the stone parts                 A road in the woods, one of my favorite views.....
and we built the rest.  No power, no phones, or
lights, a real off-the-grid retreat!

     

The waterfall at the spring - Winter of 2004                            Joseph and I built a bed from a poplar tree we
                                                                                                  cut in the woods below the cabin......
                                                                                                         Eleanor made the quilt!

    

This is where the famous                                                  The meadow - Spring of 2005.....
snowball fight of December 1969
took place. 

 

Click here for some photos of our Thanksgiving there in November of 2006

Renovations in the Spring and Summer of 2007

History of the farm

 

 

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