Getting the Old Farmhouse in Shape for the Winter

The Old Farmhouse needed a bit of work from time to time.
Painting those fancy corbels was tricky! 

( The ornate decorative brackets under the eaves. )

One Old Farmer's Daughter remembers

 being on the roof where they overlapped
with the Old Farmer 

  reaching to paint them.

Of course in places you could put a ladder

on a porch roof, which made it much easier. 

A blessing was the Old Farmhouse 

having permanently colored shingles.
They were cement asbestos, 

very rigid and stonelike.

Every fall the screens were taken off 

the old windows and storm windows 

put in their place. 

And vice versa in the spring. 

No triple tracks back then.
And think about all the storage space

this took in the off season too! 

 The Old Farmer's children's job was to wash them prior to installing for the season.

This one picture shows the corbels and the siding

and some of the many windows needing to be changed spring and fall.