{"id":22627,"date":"2022-11-24T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=22627"},"modified":"2022-11-24T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:34:12","slug":"episode-684-new-doorway-for-skeoch-freeman-farmhouse-circa-1870-and-doorway-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=22627","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 684 NEW DOORWAY FOR SKEOCH\/FREEMAN FARMHOUSE CIRCA 1870 (AND DOORWAY 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 684   NEW DOORWAY FOR SKEOCH\/FREEMAN FARMHOUSE CIRCA 1870 (AND DOORWAY 2022)<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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Mice!  Lots of them squeeze through the old frame doorway of our farm house.  This is a bad year for them.<\/div>\n
Marjorie has caught 28 so far.   All dead except one she caught by the tail and let it go down by the pond.<\/div>\n
Where  did it go?   I bet it hightailed it back to this loose brick in the old farm house.  If so, it is doomed.<\/div>\n
Snap traps get them. <\/div>\n

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But that freeway for mice may not be as bad in future years.  We ordered a new fancy doorway with sidelights and<\/div>\n
transom\u2026just like the old doorway but made of metal shielded lumber  It took all summer to construct.<\/div>\n
Old farm houses are not constructed using  tape measures.  Ours has an inch or so difference one side to the <\/div>\n
other.  Takes a skilled carpenter to overcome rule of thumb measurements.Thanks to Fossil Landscapes<\/div>\n
we were able to find carpenters who are artists as well as tradesmen.<\/div>\n

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I think the cost of this doorway will be far more than the cost of a dozen mousetraps.<\/div>\n

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On cold winter nights when icicles hung from the window frames and frost deadened all the farm house<\/div>\n
rooms but one.  That room was the old kitchen where a big wood stove was kept as hot as a poker<\/div>\n
Louisa and Ed Freeman spent the winters in that little kitchen while the rest of the <\/div>\n
farm house was given over to frost and icicles.   The big front doorway was full of holes for winter wind <\/div>\n
to creep through.  Nothing could be done.  The old doorway was built in the 1870-s and we thought it could<\/div>\n
not be replicated until now.<\/div>\n

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Mice?  No problem.  In the past The house was so damn cold even the mice looked for better homes<\/div>\n
in the barn.   The mice haven was our fault when we gutted the house and modernized it.<\/div>\n

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How smart are mice?  Will they find holes in the field stone foundation \u2026 places where ancient cement<\/div>\n
can be pushed side?   I think Marjorie better hold onto the traps she purchased.  If she catches a <\/div>\n
mouse with a dent in its tail I will know that the mice are smarter than we are.  They can find a way!<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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EPISODE 684   NEW DOORWAY FOR SKEOCH\/FREEMAN FARMHOUSE CIRCA 1870 (AND DOORWAY 2022) alan skeoch Nov. 24, 2022 Mice!  Lots of them squeeze through the old frame doorway of our farm house.  This is a bad year for them. Marjorie has caught 28 so far.   All dead except one she caught by the tail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}