I lost a barn 😐

So, how does one go about losing something as large as a barn? Well, it is rather easy when one has over 300 of them in the herd and without a good dog to help round them up at milking time.

^{• PHOTO BY ME •}

Followers of my blog have probably noticed I haven't posted barns from my Old Barn Project lately, and there is a good reason for that. I began the project several years ago, and have accumulated over 300 barns thus far. It was my intention to post all of my barns here, in sequence, and with a tag to the SteemitWorldMap with their exact location pinpointed.

However...

I began my Old Barn Project while caregiving full-time for my elderly parents. I was "on duty" 24-hours-per-day, 7-days-per-week for nine years. So, many of my earlier old barn photos were quickly snagged as I was driving my parents to appointments, or taking our recycling to the Recycle Center, or other such errands. The nature of taking such hurried photos in a happenstance setting leads to problems, one of which being that I don't recall with clarity exactly where some of the earlier barns are.

So, I hesitated when it came time to post Old Barns № 023 and № 024 because I couldn't remember exactly where they are located and didn't want to break my routine of posting them in sequence. I recently drove the 30–40 miles — twice! — to the area in the neighboring county where I thought the barns were located and ambled down one country road after another for two or three hours, trying to locate them. I did not have success, but the roads are a rather twisty-turny web of rural mileage and I might have been one simple left-turn-instead-of-a-right-turn from finding them again.

Therefore out of necessity, the next barn I post will be 025, and I will post the missing ones whenever I figure out where they are. I can't promise that it won't happen again, but my record-keeping began to improve after about the 65^th or so barn, as conditions in my caregiving situation stabilized somewhat (although that proved to be only temporary). I will probably write about that caregiving time period at some point... so many posts to write, so little time...! 😆

I HAVE A QUESTION for @martibis and @blueorgy, the founders of the fabulous SteemitWorldMap project. I posted two of the barns in my Old Barn Project before becoming aware of the SteemitWorldMap. I attemted to add them later by posting the requisite string in a comment, but that did not seem to work, nor does there seem to be a way to add a paid-out post to the world map. Is there some way to add those two entries? Thanks for letting me know!

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^{a big hug to @enginewitty for designing the following personal banner for me 🤗}