What's Grandma Doing?

What is Grandma doing?

I know I am not the first person to come across a photo and wonder, What is going on in this photo? Sometimes this question can't be answered. But thanks to social media, questions can be answered. And sometimes we can find out so much more about the lives of our ancestors, just by gathering memories of one photo from the perspective of several people.

This is the photo that I post of my Grandma Moses.

Grandma Moses filling the water jugs for the chickens.

Here is the Facebook conversation that we had about this photo.

From this conversation we learn that Grandma is at the farm in Moreland, Idaho. The building in the photo was there when they originally bought the farm, the kids remember it as the pump house - but buildings with the studs on the outside were built that way on purpose for use as a grain bin, at some point the building was repurposed into a pump house. Grandma is getting ready to water the chickens, the white plastic jugs are filled up and then the top of the jug screws into the red bowl sitting on the ground. The tree in the photo has a 3 story playhouse that was built with scrap wood Grandpa brought home from American Potato, he built it with his boys. This photo was taken before the big fence was added around the house to keep the cows and chickens off the yard. 

We also learn that Cassi (granddaughter) waters her chickens the same way. And Edie will be protected from the chickens by her attack dogs.

We learned so much from one photo, that I didn't think was that interesting. Until everyone started to comment on the photo. This is so much more then a picture of Grandma filling up a jug.