{"id":1598,"date":"2018-10-23T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T02:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2018-10-28T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:44:00","slug":"tom-bucklands-last-look-at-his-barn-oct-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Tom Buckland’s last look at his barn Oct. 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOM BUCKLAND TAKES \u00a0A \u00a0LAST LOOK AT HIS BARN<\/p>\n

alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Oc.t 23, 2018<\/div>\n
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I wish we could stop and \u00a0take a breath. \u00a0The pace of change is \u00a0just too \u00a0fast for me\u2026and for lots \u00a0of others. \u00a0Fortunately I \u00a0had<\/div>\n
that chance to pause the other day when I caught Tom Buckland, alone on his seventh line farm which was \u00a0 about to be turned<\/div>\n
over to a new owner. \u00a0And that new owner may not know what to do with the huge Buckland \u00a0barn because it needs \u00a0some rescue<\/div>\n
work on the stone foundation. \u00a0 \u00a0If other barns are any guide i expect the Buckland barnwill soon be gone\u2026a \u00a0pile of splintered \u00a0beams<\/div>\n
and twisted roofing. \u00a0Not glorious any more.<\/div>\n
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\u201cTom can we take a look at your barn from the threshing floor?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cClosed \u00a0it up for the farm sale\u2026worried \u00a0someone would get hurt\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTwo of us are unlikely to have trouble\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSure \u00a0we can take a \u00a0look.\u201d<\/div>\n
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What was left unsaid? \u00a0 You figure that out below.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAlan, when we were kids this barn was our playroom\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHuge place\u2026biggest barn I have ever seen, what did \u00a0you do in here when you were young?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSee that ladder over there\u2026the one that runs right the barn frame?”<\/div>\n
\u201cThat one with short boards nailed to it??\u201dYep\u2026when we were young, my brothers would climb that ladder<\/div>\n
and then swing across the top of the barn hand over hand\u2026a challenge.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou could kill yourself doing that.:<\/div>\n
\u201cKids never think of that.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAnybody fall?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cProbably but there was always \u00a0a hay mow below\u2026soft landing.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cYou mean way up there and then hand over hand \u00a0along the hay track?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYep\u2026did it\u2026younger then.\u201d<\/div>\n
(look at picture far right)<\/div>\n
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\u201cMost of the big beams in here are beech\u2026the trees \u00a0must have been immense way \u00a0back then.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cPowder post beetles in the beams now.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNo problem\u2026it would take them a couple of hundred years to bring down the barn.\u201d<\/div>\n
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TOM BUCKLAND TAKES \u00a0A \u00a0LAST LOOK AT HIS BARN alan skeoch Oc.t 23, 2018 I wish we could stop and \u00a0take a breath. \u00a0The pace of change is \u00a0just too \u00a0fast for me\u2026and for lots \u00a0of others. \u00a0Fortunately I \u00a0had that chance to pause the other day when I caught Tom Buckland, alone on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}