Plants

  • red raspberries
  • black raspberries
  • dew berries
  • red currants
  • strawberries
  • yellow apples
  • red apples
  • sheepnose apples
  • white pine
  • blue spruce
  • weeping willow
  • silver maple
  • red maple
  • sugar maple
  • serviceberry
  • tulip poplar
  • black cherry
  • peonies (pink, white)
  • bearded irises
  • cups-n-saucers
  • bellflowers
  • "live-forevers"
  • roses
  • hollyhocks
  • red-orange daylilies
  • hollyhocks
  • grape hyacinths
  • hyacinths
  • snapdragons
  • zinnias
  • dahlias
  • mini "victorian" pink roses
  • belladonna lily
  • string beans
  • onions
  • peas
  • lettuce
  • beets
  • potatoes
  • tomatoes
  • peppers
  • sunflowers
  • grafted apple trees
  • cherry tree
  • peach tree
  • plum tree
  • grapes
  • forsythia
  • wild orange azalea
  • wild pink azalea
  • mountain ash
  • eastern redbud
  • flowering almond
  • flowering quince
  • rhododendron
  • trilliums (red, white)
  • orange poppies
  • daffodils
  • red tulip
  • multiflora rose
  • wintergreen "teaberry"
  • morel mushrooms under the apple tree
  • buckeye tree
  • white flowering shrub
  • hay
  • corn
  • hawthorn tree "the thorn tree"
  • euonymus tree
  • rhubarb

Animals

  • white leghorn (?) chickens and roosters
  • Jersey cow and calf
  • pigs (pink...not sure what breed)
  • ring-necked pheasant
  • bobwhite quail

Tractor

  • Old Ford 8N from the 50's (I think...)

Buildings

  • Farmhouse
    • Open porch toward road, later closed in
    • Living room with angled front windows
    • Old bedroom off of living room with iron bed
    • Bedroom on opposite side of living room
    • Dining room with old wood cook stove and 3-pane picture window
    • Cellar door beside fridge
    • Bedroom off of dining room
    • Kitchen "hall" with sink at the end windows and washer, dryer set
    • Double steel sink with faucet and sprayer
    • Handmade cabinets with copper-like handles and lazy susan (made by Granddad)
    • Bathroom back little hall off of dining room with jade-greenish tile and pink/black shower interior. Frog soap holder. Pink glass perfume bottle. Cabinet with hanging shelf.
    • Dirt cellar with bins for apples, potatoes; shelves for canned goods; huge chest freezer; outside double door near pines and forsythia.
  • Stone fireplace in front yard
  • "Meat" house and attached buildings
  • Greenhouse
  • Chicken coop
  • Corn crib
  • Butchering spot under the old oak tree in the front yard near pole light
  • Clothesline
  • Cement block garage
  • Granddad's Shop
  • White Mobile Home with rooms built on, rock porch, pavilion
    • bedroom, cabinets, bathroom, furnace, bedroom, living room, kitchen
    • bedroom, dining room/family room, pantry/utility room
  • Beige Mobile Home (added later, with ramp and pavilion)
    • kitchen, "bar", living room, former bedroom (now separated from living room by a large curtain), bathroom, bedroom
  • Yellow metal shed, later replaced by beige/brown minibarn
  • Playhouse made with camper top from Granddad's old truck
    • Paneling refrigerator
    • Kitchen set
    • Folding blue table with orange/yellow/brown/silver chairs
  • Grape arbors
  • Well Pit

Musical Instruments

  • mandolin (Granddad's, shaped like half a watermelon)
  • steel guitar (Granddad's)
  • maroon accordian (Granddad's)
  • small accordian (Granddad's, white accordian)
  • fiddle/violin (Granddad's)
  • clarinet (mine)
  • trumpet (mine)
  • acoustic guitar (mine)
  • upright piano (mine)
  • table top organ (Mom's)
  • mandolin (Mom's, flat)
  • harmonica(s)

Other

  • large grey boulders (one under maple tree, others in flower beds)
  • mint green wagon wheel beside boulder under maple tree
  • the white lamp with the crystals on the stem and the lacy liner on the white shade
  • the glass candy dish with the maroon band around the top and a goldtone rim
  • the little nightstand on which both the lamp and candy dish sat
  • the orange living room and front porch furniture
  • the little rocking chair
  • Mom's big rocking chair
  • the little pink, white, and blue "cat in a bonnet" light switch cover
  • the Dumbo light switch cover with dimmer switch nose
  • the pretty pink-and-white glass lampshade
sep 21 2010 ∞
jun 8 2013 +