Chicken Feed

 

what stays in the yard!

  These are my chicken feeders! They are supposed to each have a flat tray beneath them – but those dishes are no more, having cracked and broken over the years. I did not get these from an antique store or an auction or garage sale. They were in the barns when we moved in to the house on Zimmerman in 1965, They were used to feed the chickens way back when.

     There had been yard sales at the house when the farmer lady was selling everything. And not everything sold – and stuff was left behind in the barns which we rummaged through – it was not a lot of stuff – but all treasures to us!

from Zimmerman Road

     I think there had been six feeders which Mom then put in different areas of the yard for decoration. Years later when she and Dad moved to Florida – I took possession of the feeders – which is weird when I think about it because we were in an apartment then – so where did I store the chicken feeders? Most likely in the storage area of the apartment basement lined with, you guessed it, chicken wire!

     Well, the feeders have come with me to every home – the yard in Alden, New York, the rented place and then the house near Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the rented place and then house in Plano, Texas, and the rented house and then home for the last 23 years here in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

     No one has ever come into the yard to steal them – I guess they are not worth too much.  

    And I'm glad because they are worth a lot to me and I would miss them if they were gone or vandalized.

     And I hope they stay in the family after I am gone – as a token of something from our old farmhouse on Zimmerman and all that it had meant to us!

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