Word: hayloft
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...Getting frisky in a hayloft Oh, it sounds wholesome and Rodgers and Hammerstein-esque. And those little pieces of hay you and your beloved get stuck in your hair are very cute. But take it from us: There?s danger in them-thar piles of hay: Rats, pitchforks, angry farmers. Do yourself a favor and rent a room in town...
...comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
...Ohio, to be one of the finest examples of a round barn in the Midwest. That was nice, but until recently, the barn was nearly useless for modern grain farming. Like most old barns, it contained stalls for livestock and horses -- the preindustrial tractors of agriculture -- and a cavernous hayloft for storing their fuel. Over time, the outmoded barn weathered and withered. But during the past 15 years, to avoid new construction costs, the Manchesters have braced the old roof, installed modern seed-conditioning machinery inside, applied a coat of white paint and given the barn a new working life...
...restorations. "Bigger is the whole concept," says Michigan renovation expert David Ciolek, who has rehabbed hundreds of barns around the country. Ciolek creates higher, longer open spaces by a process called trussing. First he rearranges the old post-and-beam construction, then transfers the weight of the roof and hayloft to the outside walls by means of triangular wooden supports. Says Illinois livestock farmer Janis King, who had Ciolek fix up an 1870 barn: "Unless lightning strikes, the barn will be here another 100 years...
...trail on his logging roads. By 7:30 he had showered, and driven his sons Benjamin, 11, and Richard, 4, to school. He ate breakfast with his wife Beverly, and by 8 a.m. was busy at his desk in an office partitioned off in what must have been the hayloft of his barn. Then...