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| REST STOP #1: What’s A Barn Got To Do With It? The barn is why we bought this farm. The barn and the trees. The 3-story barn nestles into the Kansas sod; the trees canopy much of the yard. We fell in love with the place, were lucky enough to buy it, and then we began asking people who grew up on the farm to tell us about the barn. We heard about the dairy stanchions in the lower level, the big fork and rope that brought hay into the hay loft, the specially constructed elevator that moved grain from a pit into the bins high above on the third floor. The stories were intriguing. What a practical showpiece this barn had been! But we didn’t have dairy cows, grain to dump, or loose hay to store. We couldn’t use the barn the way it had been used in the past. Instead, we could build stalls downstairs, and a tack room on the main floor. We could store small square bales in the barn, and add a lean-to for sheep, a tractor, and large round bales. We could modify the old barn into something useful for our post-modern farm.And there was one more thing. Every year, the barn could share itself with the community for two unique nights. On a weekend in December, the barn would open itself to a living nativity framed in straw bales. Teenagers in Mary and Joseph costumes, donkeys, llamas, a miniature horse, cow and calf, peafowl, doves, chickens, guineas, ducks, turkeys, sheep, a dog and cat would find their way into the nativity scene. And the people would come to sing carols, hear the reading of the Christmas story, and experience the simple surroundings. Worship would happen in this barn. Continued... |
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