Wendy's 2014 Project 365

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wthorson

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Day 242/365 This is the river that we were right next to for the weekend.
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Day 242/365 This is an old barn on my families old homestead. My grampa built this and other structures on the farm that he homsteaded in the 1800's. He had over 800 acres of land that he farmed. It is a sad story why the land is not still in the family. My grampa was getting old and leased the land and farm to a neighbor who said that he would take care of the farm for him. They signed a paper, but my grampa trusted the neighbor and didn't totally check out the papers. In the papers the neighbor was given the opportunity to buy the whole 800 acres for $20,000. Soon we found out that my grampa was taken advantage of, but he was too proud to take his neighbor to court. The neighbor subdivided the land and made millions of dollars from it. It still makes me sad to think that someone would do that to my grampa. But, I was able to get some pictures of the memories that I had there.
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Day 243/365 This guy let me get pretty close but he kept and eye on me. Marilynne, I thought of you when I took the shot because I don't know what kind of bird it is.
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wthorson said:
Day 243/365 This guy let me get pretty close but he kept and eye on me. Marilynne, I thought of you when I took the shot because I don't know what kind of bird it is. View attachment 110927
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Thanks for thinking of me when you saw this Killdeer.

Glad you had a great vacation. Enjoy your new RV, speaking of which, we watched RV with Robin Williams for the umpteenth time a couple of nights ago. Enjoy that movie!!

Sad story about your grampa.
 
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