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| Historic barn on M-22 between Leland and Glen Arbor |
An open house in a newly restored old barn tempted us south on Sunday afternoon. This was the old Shalda farm. I remember when their little store stood across the highway on the southeast corner.
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| Mr. and Mrs. Shalda in the old days (not my photo) -- |
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| New paint job for the country's 250th birthday -- |
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| Lumber neatly sorted and stacked -- |
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| This ladder was useful when hay was stacked nearly to the roof. |
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| Many old things found in the barn could be seen... |
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| ...but the vintage and the modern were at times strangely juxtaposed. |
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| Milk cows would have come and gone by this downstairs door. |
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This old apple tree caught my eye as we were leaving.
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| Old and weather-beaten, it is still bearing apples. |
Back at my own barn, where Tree Guy is at work cleaning and organizing things, he turned up a mysterious object. We were puzzled.
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| What could it be? |
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| The patent number was the clue we needed. |
An online searched turned up information. The patent expired long ago on this antique chimney cleaning device!
