Hand Built Barn

This barn was built, by the owner himself, in 1962. Interestingly, he cut the roof joists with that curve that the roof follows. How? I still do not understand. While I was shooting, that cow just stood there, intermittently mooing at me, which is strange behavior in my experience. I asked the owner about it and he explained that his name was Buddy. When he was born his mother’s teat was too big for him to suckle, so he had to hand feed him for the first few months. In Buddy’s eyes he almost became a family pet at that point. He did admit that Buddy would be going to the butcher that fall, however. I expressed my surprise that that would be Buddy’s fate. He hooked his thumb over his shoulder at a hillside of grazing cows and exclaimed, “He’ll taste the same as them!”