The Old Barn


A young man and his new wife were looking for a place they could call their own, they were looking for a farm to buy and raise their future children. They searched and looked but no luck, one day they were visiting an old friend to see their new home, when suddenly they came across a farm that was simply beautiful. What really caught the attention of the young man was the old tobacco barn, with it's tobacco stalks hanging to dry. They turned around and drove up to the main house there on the porch sat an old man he looked like the house and he were one. The cap on his head was dirty, and his mouth was full of his chew. "Afternoon sir I just wanted to come here and say you have a beautiful place and we know, we've been looking for a farm to buy". The old man looked up at him: "Young man I've been here for fifty years I got it from an old man like I am right now. I got married in the front room, my three kids were born in the fifties up in the bedroom, I buried my oldest up on the hill next to his mother when he feel out the top of the barn, hanging tobacco. The two other kids moved out sometime back and have families of their own now, I ain't seen one in twenty six years, the other comes back when she needs money. I lost ten good hunting dogs to the wild hogs and coyotes, and I've gone through six good tractors here. You wanna know what I would trade for this farm?" The young man didn't know whether or not he had angered the old man but he went ahead and said "No sir what would you trade". "I wouldn't trade a thing I've had a full life in this old place. I sure love I just don't want it ending up in some development companies hands. So you want to be a farmer boy?" The young man getting a little confused but answered his question. "Yes sir I grew up on a tobacco farm and I sure do enjoy that kind of work." The old man smiled a mile long grin and stuck his hand out "My name is Johnny." The young man shook the old man's hand which was pretty firm for his age. "I'm Tom and this is my wife Ann we're the Wilkes, well sir if you don't mind we would like to come back sometime and see this place again." The old man was amused "That'd be fine, any time you wanna come over, come on it's just me and ol' blue here", he pointed at a blue tick hound with it's head sitting down on the porch near Johnny's feet. When Tom and Ann were on their way going to their friends house just up the hollow Tom said to Ann, "Ann I don't think that old man will sale this place but he said we can come back any time we want." The young woman looked her husband and said "I would like that maybe we could come back next week." To which Tom replied. "Sound great honey we'll do that". The next Sunday came and they went back to the farm, the old man was as happy as a young kid, the young man helped him bring wood in for the fire place, the young wife cooked up a fine supper from the quail he and the old man had killed that day from of their hunt. When it was time to leave the old man yelled out "Son come back next Sunday I'm looking forward to it." The young man was as happy as he could be "You can count on it Johnny". The next Sunday came again and when they arrived they noticed there was no Johnny on the porch no dog and no smoke from the chimney. They went down the friends house and they told him how old Johnny died last Wednesday in his barn but he went with a smile, and now the town was thinking of giving his land to his oldest son who worked for a development company. So Tom and Ann went to the farm one more time to give it one last look they went to the house and to the Fields, then they went to the barn. Nailed on the barn was a letter, it surprised Tom because if his eyes weren't looking in that exact location he would have missed it. Tom saw it had his name on it so he opened it. "Dear Tom and Ann Wilkes: I have taken pen in hand to deliver my last will and testament to bequeath to you my all possessions in life, including the four hundred thousand dollars I have in the bank in town, this old farm is yours now love her as much as I do".

A year later in the upstairs bedroom the midwife called down to Tom, "Tom you have a boy" Tom replied with tears in his eyes, "His name is Johnny".

Sometimes people just need a friend, sometimes a small amount of human kindness can go a long way.


Tommarow nature.

The Jackass

A man was walking through the woods one day to enjoy it's sights and it's smells, to just get in touch with nature. As he walked he came upon a cliff he knew that if he fell that would cause serious injury so he took it slow making sure that every step was just as careful as the next. All of at sudden, his footing gave way, he tried to stop himself from the fall but down he came and tumbled all the way down the hill. When he came to he noticed a sever pain in his leg, he reached down and felt it, he was doomed, he had in fact broken his leg. He yelled and yelled, finally an old man came out of the woods, the old man looked like a hermit, walked with limp, and he smelled like he hadn't bathed in month. To the younger man he looked like a miracle and his scent didn't matter to him. The man said to the older gent: "Sir please help me I've broken my leg and I can't move I took a nasty fall from the cliff." The old man agreed but he would have to return with a way to get him out of here he wouldn't be no more than a half hour. The man sat there thinking that a ATV would take him out but when the half hour came past and old man returned he noticed a Jackass. "This old Jackass is the best thing for ya" said the old man. The man looked at the jackass not believing his eyes this old thing is going to carry me out, why it looks like it couldn't pull a child let alone a two hundred pound man. It's chest was hardly large the hoofs looked like they needed new shoes you can see the belly was sagging so low it had a sag in the back but that didn't take away from the fact you could almost see it's ribs and one of it's ears had a split. "How do you suppose we do this Old man?" asked the man. The old man spit tobacco juice out of his lips and said... "I'm gonna make a litter something the Indians would do and this here Jackass is gonna pull you out". The man's worst fear was about to come true this animal has to pull him out. " Are you sure he can do it old man?" The old man was taken aback. "Son I don't see where you have much of a choice just relax and this old Jackass will show you a thing or two, he's still got a lot of strength left in him". When the litter was complete and the man securely laying on it, the old man gave the Jackass a slap and the Jackass was off the old man was nearly running trying to keep up with it. When it came to a hill it walked nearly running pulling the litter and coming back down the other side the jackass slowed its pace to make the journey a smooth ride for the passenger in the litter. The man was very surprised, this old, decrepit Jackass was pulling better than anything he could have imagined and was laughing at himself for doubting the animals strength, forty-five minutes later he was in the old man's truck going to town to the hospital. When the old man dropped him off at the hospital the man shook his hand and said: "Old man I sure thank you, and give that Jackass an extra bucket of grain for me tonight would you?" The old man smiled a toothless grin and said, "Son come back and see Ol' Jack and me when you heal up and I'll give him the grain, good luck to you".

When something doesn't look like it has anymore strength left in it don't doubt it, when pressed it will surprise you..

Tomorrow Things of Interest.

A woman has her first day off to relax and be herself, so she takes a walk through the park. She notices a flower garden in the middle of park so she walks over, she has seen many flower gardens before but she remembers her grandmothers. Her Grandmothers roses, daises, and orchids from her childhood where absolutely beautiful and could never be matched. So she sits down on a bench and admires the roses very beautiful but not grandma's. She walks to the daisies, they are quite elegant but not in the same class as grandma's. So she finds the orchids they are plain in comparison she misses her Grandmother so much she begins to cry. The woman now in her late twenties feels sometimes like a small child, but since loosing her Grandmother only two years ago she feels not only like a child sometimes but a lost child. She sits down near a tree that is standing near the orchid garden, she sits down and looks up tot he sky. "Grandma I miss you so much I wish you were here". She takes her eyes off the sky and looks at the orchids again and sees one orchid she missed earlier, this orchid was different from the rest it was pale but pink and seemed as if it had it's own light shining from within, this orchid looks like her grandmothers. She walked over to it just to see it closer and marveled at it, it was as if it was smiling at her like a long lost relative. The woman heard the garden keeper coming from behind her she turned around and told the man that he keeps a beautiful garden. The gardener was stunned to see the pink orchid he said that, that flower wasn't there yesterday it was as if it just popped up over night. The woman knew it wasn't there yesterday or last night or even there a few minutes ago it was her Grandmother saying "I love you baby".

Tomorrow, it's about the animals...