Old House

August · 11-13-19, 09:22 PM

That is pretty cool. It does look like someone rummaged through it already.

Armistead · 11-13-19, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by August

That is pretty cool. It does look like someone rummaged through it already.

haha, yea me, ..but the back part, or kitchen caught fire, the one pic with the hutch and all the dishes so that was trashed. They closed off the main house from that and that no one has been in it for about 2 decades. The one sister that lived there until then, no running water, toilet, just use to living that way I guess. She moved out after the back kitchen was lost, just really didn't take anything and no one ever went back.

Aktungbby · 11-13-19, 09:56 PM

Rumaging is fun but there's a certain melanchloy quality to it all; like your intruding on someone's weirdly mundane existance...

Armistead · 11-13-19, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Rumaging is fun but there's a certain melanchloy quality to it all; like your intruding on someone's weirdly mundane existance...

Yea, it sort of feels like that, so weird vines growing through some walls right on the furniture with pics and stuff still in perfect place. Most of the antique furniture is still OK, but too far for this boy to carry through a basic swamp now to get to a tractor road. The sort of main road or drive has grown over. Also got a nice arrowhead collection, about 2000 of them her father mostly picked up after plowing fields for decades. It will take weeks to go through, but finding some stuff from the 1800's. Did find an album of tin type pics, some with confederate soldiers, so that made me happy. She said there's a Japanese sword and hat in a room I haven't gotten into yet that her uncle took off one he killed. Got a cellar in it, but ..getting cold, I saw tons of snake skins looking down, but I'll wait.

fireftr18 · 11-13-19, 10:18 PM

Pretty cool. That reminded me of some of the places and stories you told about them during our Ubisoft forum days.

Buddahaid · 11-13-19, 10:40 PM

Having spent much of the past year clearing out my parent's and my mother in law's homes, I find those photos somewhat depressing. Still, I love old stuff.

Aktungbby · 11-13-19, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

Yea, it sort of feels like that,She said there's a Japanese sword and hat in a room I haven't gotten into.

get a foto of the katana ASAP...genuine work of art or 'WWII gunto'?

Reece · 11-13-19, 10:44 PM

Love the picture of "The Good Shepherd" over the fireplace.

Take it!!

August · 11-14-19, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

get a foto of the katana ASAP...genuine work of art or 'WWII gunto'?

I read somewhere one of the vets organizations was collecting up war souvenirs like that to return to the families in Japan as some sort of bury the hatchet program.

Jimbuna · 11-14-19, 10:05 AM

I'd have found it a little eerie searching through everything.

em2nought · 11-14-19, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

Did find an album of tin type pics, some with confederate soldiers, so that made me happy.

An image of Billy the Kid would be nice.

Aktungbby · 11-14-19, 10:39 AM

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An image of Billy the Kid would be nice.

INDEED!

11-13-19, 09:22 PM	#1
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,232 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That is pretty cool. It does look like someone rummaged through it already. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

11-13-19, 09:56 PM	#3
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,084 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Rumaging is fun but there's a certain melanchloy quality to it all; like your intruding on someone's weirdly mundane existance... __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

11-13-19, 10:18 PM	#5
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Pretty cool. That reminded me of some of the places and stories you told about them during our Ubisoft forum days. __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

11-13-19, 10:40 PM	#6
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,332 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Having spent much of the past year clearing out my parent's and my mother in law's homes, I find those photos somewhat depressing. Still, I love old stuff. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

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Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,821 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Love the picture of "The Good Shepherd" over the fireplace. Take it!! __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

11-14-19, 10:05 AM	#10
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,014 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I'd have found it a little eerie searching through everything. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!