OLD FASHIONED BLOGGING

Seems like these days, blogging has gone the way of board shanty cabins on the prairie and desktop computers...Most have moved on to tweeting and instagram on schmartphones, not wanting to actually write much. While we don't have to hitch up the horse to go to town and our little rancher in the West has more than one room, we're still blogging on our desktop Dell. Yep, go ahead and call us old-fashioned here at Angel Crest Manor. 
This photo is from about 1904 when Jack's relatives were homesteading on the prairie in South Dakota, 20 miles from the nearest town. In order to claim the land (a quarter section was 160 acres), you had to build a shanty, plow at least 40 acres and spend one year living there. They called it "proving up." City slickers need not apply, though some probably did and lasted until winter. Jack's grandfolks made it work, combined their acreage through marriage and ended up farming a whole lot of land in the south central part of the state. Doubtless, more got sore than their thumbs! They did get telephones in 1910, but didn't get electricity out on the farm until 1951! (REA...Rural Electrification Act). Good times!