Glen Family Farm House

The Glen family has 3 daughters and one son, and they are all in training to be farmers. The Glen family house is a quaint old farmhouse squished into the North East corner of their farmland. Its german style shows the wooden beans through the white clay of the house. The roof is sagging in and it’s dark grey shingles are coated with moss. The oak door has a brass bell hanging on the left side. This bell was designed for visitors, but it has come to be used as a dinner bell for those working out in the field. When you step through the small door, you see that the entire first floor is one large room. On the left side of the room is the kitchen. The stove and oven for bread are attached to the main fireplace, which heats the house wonderfully in the winter. To the right side of the door are the living room cobbled together out of old couches and scrappy wooden chairs and a makeshift hammock coveted by the youngest boy. The right wall of the house extends off into some smaller rooms, where there is a small “library” of maybe 20 books. This is where the youngest sister practically lives. The second floor is divided into two rooms, one for the three daughters, and one for the parents where the youngest boy still sleeps. The lot isn’t a particularly nice plot of land. It’s rocky and L shaped, which doesn’t lend itself to easy farming. Them, the southern side has a tendency to flood in the spring, which has created the “the southern pond” out of the swamp. They mainly use the land for vegetables. Tomato plants tower over a large section in the west, 8 feet tall, the rows stretching the entire length of their farm. Broccoli, lettuce, and carrots floor close behind. The north has a wonky path of potatoes in front of the family house, which they tend to tromp over without a care. Of course, there are large patches in the middle for corn and wheat, the stables. Then in the spaces in between are the less popular vegetables like peas and turnips. The farm doesn’t grow everything, but it grows a lot of things, and they sell quickly at the market.