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12/02/06, 02:33 PM
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Alberta Farmgirl
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Location: Alberta, Canada (Not the USA!)
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My "homestead"
This is a pic of my home, the farm, the place I was born and raised in:
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12/02/06, 02:42 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: far north Idaho
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How wonderful to live in the place where you were born. You are a lucky person. Thanks for sharing.
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12/02/06, 02:54 PM
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Enjoying Four Seasons
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Beautiful Milton, New Hampshire
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That's beautiful ~ you are very lucky.
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12/02/06, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MS
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Lovely! Those trees are beautiful!
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12/02/06, 06:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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It looks like a wonderful place to call home.
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12/02/06, 07:04 PM
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Big Front Porch advocate
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Join Date: May 2002
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Bauutiful... those trees look like real Christmas trees.
And I cannot even imagin living one place my whole life, must be terriffic.
Angie
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12/02/06, 07:11 PM
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Location: maine
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I have the place I was rasied burned into my head. I lost that place to a fire when i was 12. Yours looks great.
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12/02/06, 07:26 PM
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Thinking of the old homestead
We pay a quick visit to where i was born and raised when we visit back home in Ga. It has to be quick because it is under a interstate cloverleaf and you have to be doing at least 70 mph or some one will run over you. But things always change and you have to go on. The old house was moved by someone who bought it from the state but I just do not want to see it best to just remember it as it was.
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12/02/06, 07:28 PM
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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: South Central Kansas
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I live a long way south of you
I live a long way south of you, in Kansas and I always hear how cold it is in Alberta.
Was that photo taken in summer or winter. grin.
Nice place, glad you have the homestead. I have my grandfathers from circa 1888, and my sister-in-law has my great uncles where my dad and I both grew up, homesteaded in 1886.
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12/02/06, 07:48 PM
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Location: MA and PA
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Its beautiful! There is no place like home......
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12/02/06, 08:00 PM
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Alberta Farmgirl
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Alberta, Canada (Not the USA!)
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This house...
The house in that pic was built to "replace" this one:
I hate to spoil it, but the reason I have homestead in quotation marks is because it's not really a homestead (but to me it is). The old house in this pic is the real homestead that the first owners ever built, 100 years ago. This farm has been through three owners: we're the third, if you can believe that.
But truth of all truth, to me, this is my homestead.
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Last edited by Karin L; 12/02/06 at 08:23 PM.
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12/02/06, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Karin L
The house in that pic was built to "replace" this one:
I hate to spoil it, but the reason I have homestead in quotation marks is because it's not really a homestead (but to me it is). The old house in this pic is the real homestead that the first owners ever built, 100 years ago. This farm has been through three owners: we're the third, if you can believe that.
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I like your homestead. The old house that was there, is it a one room cabin? It has me intrigued! It would be really neat to restore.
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12/03/06, 12:20 AM
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Alberta Farmgirl
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Alberta, Canada (Not the USA!)
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Yeah I think it was a one-room cabin; it also has a another floor above, but covering only half of the house. My brother and Dad redid the roof (put tin on to replace the old wood shingles), but the logs making up the house are original. The doors in the front were built by the owners previous to us to turn it into a garage. But it's a 100 years old, the logs on the old house are 100 years old, and it's still standing with no signs of collapsing.
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12/03/06, 07:17 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Texas
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Originally Posted by Karin L
I hate to spoil it, but the reason I have homestead in quotation marks is because it's not really a homestead (but to me it is). The old house in this pic is the real homestead that the first owners ever built, 100 years ago. This farm has been through three owners: we're the third, if you can believe that.
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Karin, here in Texas, we live in a double wide manufactured home, on 12.65 acres which were split off a larger acreage some years ago. But this is our homestead too - and Texas law supports that concept and will give us a break on property taxes since it is our homestead, that is to say, our home, the place we live, not just property we own.
Now, we didn't acquire the land through the original homestead laws of the US, which meant you could move onto the land, file a claim, work on it a certain length of time and live on it, and it's yours. We paid for it.. but it's still our homestead.
What does homestead mean up there in Canada?
And I concur - the pictures are beautiful~ you have a lovely place.
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12/03/06, 02:26 PM
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Alberta Farmgirl
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Alberta, Canada (Not the USA!)
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I'm pretty sure "homestead" meant the same thing up here as in the states, a long time ago. Now, homestead, to me, is more of an american term, so us canadians just call our homesteads (newly built farm/acerage, property all paid off) home or "our new home" or "our new place." Even "our new place" just means that "we bought a place that previous owners had" sort-of-thing.
I hope that ain't too confusing, that's just from my very limited experience with home-owning stuff, lol.
And thanks, I appretiate the complements.
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