Thursday, May 5, 2011

Bashful barrel......or a wallflower


This is a barrel that sat in the corner of the office area of the Woodward Depot.  It is a fitting object that could have been used to ship grain on the train. My father use barrels like this to soak oats in sour milk to feed to his pigs.  I can still smell that sour mix today even though it was fifty years ago.

5 comments:

Alan Burnett said...

I always think that the proper content for any barrel is beer - or possibly whiskey.

Valerie said...

Great picture. Do you have a use for it now?

L. D. said...

Yes, Alan, over here we can buy half barrels like this for planting flowers. They had a history of storing wine.

Betsy Brock said...

It's lovely. I love old things like this. Isn't it funny how we can smell some things from our memory?

The Retired One said...

I have one too...wanted to change it into a flower pot outside, but haven't done it yet!

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