Comments on: The Gift of a Chicken Story http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/11/05/the-gift/ Your online simplicity village Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:37:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Karen McCurdy http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/11/05/the-gift/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Karen McCurdy Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:35:35 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/?p=1029#comment-825 There's a great message in this really heart warming story. My own Dad is 91 years old and loves it when folks stop by to visit his home in Holmes County, Ohio. He loves to hear all the stories that folks are willing to take the time to share with him. Thanks for sharing your story with us, Judith. We all need to take more time to visit our elderly neighbors, share our garden produce if you have "extra", bring your pets. All of this is so much appreciated by folks who are alone. So here's my story from about 15 years ago...... I have a metal detector and my elderly neighbor John Scanlan invited me to "hunt" in their centuries old barn yard in Medina County, Ohio. After searching with no luck at all, I set my detector down to give my good friend a hug goodbye. As I did that, the metal detector beeped!! My curiorsity got the best of me so I dug a very shallow hole and found a beautiful solid gold locket with a bird engraved on the front and a tiny diamond in it's eye. John casually told me to keep it because they have "enough junk" in their house. Of course I couldn't do that. I showed the piece to his wife Faye (then about 80 years old) who grew up on this farm. She started to cry and held the golden piece to her heart. She said this lovely locket was her 16th birthday present from her parents. She lost it shortly after she got it!! As I've ben told, there was a huge barn/dance hall fire many years ago in this barn yard, when all was destroyed. The earth was moved, filled, graded, etc. etc. after the fire. How this locket remained only about 1 inch below the surface of the grass is a miracle. Faye handed the locket back to me with her sweet gracious smile and said "You found it. It's now your's"..... Again, I couldn't do that. With tears in my own eyes, I handed her back the lovely keepsake and asked her to give it to one of her grand daughters. She did. My wonderful friend Faye has passed on now, and her memories of how she loved my visits will forever be in my heart. PS: It's this dear old lfriend who taught me how to butcher chickens, boil pure maple syrup into delicious candy. Every year at Halloween we'd find three pumpkins for my children magically deliverd to our porch steps.... we knew it was John who came to share his happy garden gourds! Thanks again for a wonderfully inspiring story. I truly enjoy the Lehman's Front Porch Newlsletter. There’s a great message in this really heart warming story. My own Dad is 91 years old and loves it when folks stop by to visit his home in Holmes County, Ohio. He loves to hear all the stories that folks are willing to take the time to share with him.

Thanks for sharing your story with us, Judith. We all need to take more time to visit our elderly neighbors, share our garden produce if you have “extra”, bring your pets. All of this is so much appreciated by folks who are alone.

So here’s my story from about 15 years ago…… I have a metal detector and my elderly neighbor John Scanlan invited me to “hunt” in their centuries old barn yard in Medina County, Ohio. After searching with no luck at all, I set my detector down to give my good friend a hug goodbye. As I did that, the metal detector beeped!! My curiorsity got the best of me so I dug a very shallow hole and found a beautiful solid gold locket with a bird engraved on the front and a tiny diamond in it’s eye. John casually told me to keep it because they have “enough junk” in their house.

Of course I couldn’t do that. I showed the piece to his wife Faye (then about 80 years old) who grew up on this farm. She started to cry and held the golden piece to her heart. She said this lovely locket was her 16th birthday present from her parents. She lost it shortly after she got it!!

As I’ve ben told, there was a huge barn/dance hall fire many years ago in this barn yard, when all was destroyed. The earth was moved, filled, graded, etc. etc. after the fire. How this locket remained only about 1 inch below the surface of the grass is a miracle. Faye handed the locket back to me with her sweet gracious smile and said “You found it. It’s now your’s”….. Again, I couldn’t do that. With tears in my own eyes, I handed her back the lovely keepsake and asked her to give it to one of her grand daughters. She did.

My wonderful friend Faye has passed on now, and her memories of how she loved my visits will forever be in my heart.

PS: It’s this dear old lfriend who taught me how to butcher chickens, boil pure maple syrup into delicious candy. Every year at Halloween we’d find three pumpkins for my children magically deliverd to our porch steps…. we knew it was John who came to share his happy garden gourds!

Thanks again for a wonderfully inspiring story. I truly enjoy the Lehman’s Front Porch Newlsletter.

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