I recently decided (yesterday to be exact), Desiree and I have it pretty good. We have a metal roof over our heads, running water inside the house, a refrigerator with a couple cold beers in it, and two cabinets in our den filled with pretty rocks.
Yesterday, we visited the
Parker Homestead, just a few miles down the road from Three Forks. The homestead is nothing more than log walls
and a roof covered with sod. Nelson Parker
and his family constructed the two-room cabin in 1910. For the first few years the Nelsons hauled water
they scooped from nearby ditches. Later,
they upgraded to a well and hand-pump a few yards outside the house.
That was about as easy as it
got for them. No refrigerator with cold beer. No den with pretty rocks.
The homestead cabin is now a Montana state park. As you can see by the photograph I am sharing, the grass on the roof and the grass surrounding has cured entirely under the hot summer sun. I cannot begin to imagine how different our lives would be if we lived as the Parkers did.
Parker Homestead
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