Talk about an image worth a thousand words!
This part of Nebraska could be a very unforgiving place to homestead. Yet the foreground, house, outbuildings and roofs tell me everyone worked pretty dang hard to keep the place in tip-top shape. There sure must have had incredible pride in their farm.
The back part of the house, with its mud room, etc. seem pretty large to me for the time. I can easily imagine 10 people living and growing there. Farming such a demanding place meant the house was used for eating (kitchen, I'm imagining, located under right-hand chimney), one double-bed bedroom for parents, and two rooms with almost cot beds in today's eyes for the children, plus pegs on the wall for clothes. No shower, but out building to the left used for washing, bathing, and much more. Get up, do chores, eat hearty breakfast, get straight to work, work till dusk, eat dinner together, a few mending tasks, and drop into bed dead tired. Repeat next day.
Added to which, the presence of electricity, and other obvious amenities, an unshakable trust and hope for the future.
I'd sure be proud if this were my family's place!
