Thread:Jdude420/@comment-1693968-20140108154738/@comment-26929881-20140109171254

Jdude420 wrote: Cool, LSB, nice - my living grandpa still buys land and he's in his 80's, owns somewhere between 5 and 8 thousand acres and has about 300 head of cattle ATM. :P My Dad's parents sold all the dairy cows after all their kids were out of high school because the only reason they had them was to sell the milk to pay for schooling. :P On my Mom and Dad's side either their grandparents or great-grand parents moved from Russia (modern day Ukraine) back in the day, in part because the Russians didn't like the fact that my harder working German ancestors were richer than them and they 'persecuted' due to that. :P Probably too much personal history, eh? Sorry, I just enjoy talking about my family history even if it's just to myself. :P

Thanks Dewy. :) No, you didn't board me at all. I love this stuff.

So, here's a little bit about my Grandpa's farm; His dad bought the farm in like 41 or something I guess. But the farm, goes waaaaayyyy back. The farm house, was built sometime in the 17 houndreds! This family, ( The Lights) Came from Germeny, to settle somewhere in PA. So some went one way, and others went the other in the state. THere name was in Germen of course, it was sounded like "Leched". Which is "Light" in Germen. Anyway, so this guy built this farm house, and got a bunch of acres, and had a farm. They lasted till about tthe late 18 houndeds, and sold it. THen it went through two more people, before my GrandPa's dad got it. And all these years, the farm house is still in use. WHen my GrandPa sold the farm in 1998, it was in great shape. But in the past 15 years, this lazy guy, didn't do ANYTHING to keep up with it, and it's not the best inside now. Like some of the plaster is cracked, ect. The house is has three levels. Sorry, it has four. The actic. So there's also this really cool little plot, where there's a cemetery in it, with just about all the 'Lights" that lived near there, or there. So some of the tomb stones are like from the late 17 houndeds too. It's really cool though.