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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #664
Dates of adventure: 6/11/22
Exploring the grounds of an historic abandoned ranch in the southeastern Oregon desert. Because this place is on the National Register of Historic Places, I was able to research the actual history of what happened here - and it’s pretty interesting!
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3:08 as soon as you say creepy !
That swinging door says YES .
You captured a moment of the past moving through time !
Wonder what they would have thought of You tube ?
I so love your videos. I am 64 years old and used to go exploring back in the 80s to empty houses and hiking but didn't have a camera or video camera! I wished I did. No YT either. Keep on entertaining us WH. You rock! ❤ from Ohio
Ugh! That kitchen linoleum was the same pattern in my X mother in laws house in the country in Oklahoma. She laid it in 1980. Between a blood pressure pill and that linoleum, my daughter almost died. She was watching my two-year-old daughter while I was at work and when she was cutting a blood pressure pill in half, one flew off the table and she looked all over and couldn’t find it on that linoleum, but my little daughter did. She was Life flighted to Oklahoma City and she almost died !! but she is alive and well at 39 years old today. Wow seem that linoleum really brought back the past 😮 I love that ranch!! it’s only 160 miles from where I live. I better head over there and check it out before the snow flies. Thank you wonder Hussey for another great video!!
What a shame to see that old house in disrepair. It’s a beauty
Those kitchen curtains are Kmart 1970s I was a supervisor at KMart in the domestics dept. yup , Kmart curtains
Your videos are amazing. So informative. Safe travels.
I camped there in May, pitching a tent in the open area between the house and tool barn. Lots of history at the ranch and surrounding area. There are two graves on the hill behind the ranch buildings that have a fascinating history and are very much a part of the Shirk Ranch story. There are many stories about what happened and I’ll leave it to you to research and determine what you think might be the truth.
I was raised on a farm in North Dakota in the 40s and 50s where the noon meal was dinner and the evening meal was supper. We did mainly grain farming, but every farm in the area raised cattle, pigs, chickens, and had milk cows, and horses for pulling hay wagons. We planted a large garden every year for vegetables to be canned for winter use. All these extras were to be as self sufficient as possible in providing food and shelter. We also had a 300 gallon cistern in the basement to store rain water collected from the gutters on the house, and a well to provide drinking water for us and the cattle. Before the power was available, we used kerosene lamps until we bought a generator and a large battery bank in the basement to furnish power until the Rural Electrification Association finally came to the area in he later 40's.
I was surprised that Shirk Ranch didn't have many of these amenities. I think the second building you visited may have been a bunk house for ranch hands, and they did have work areas, like we did. We had our own shop to do all the repairs on farm implements. About the only things we bought in town were clothing and groceries we were unable to grow. My mother baked bread and prepared meals from scratch. So, I first lived off the grid (what grid?) and only lived the furnished life when I moved to California in 1957 to attend UC Berkeley. Nowadays, people do the reverse!
You described my life growing up on our farm in Iowa, we also had a generator before electricity, I remember dad calling it a delco plant.
Growing up in Missouri, dinner was at noon, supper in the evening, and lunch was an afternoon break from work and snack.
My favorite videos abandoned ranches homesteads mining camps great scenery good stories this is why your number one for me of course all your work is good
I’m so glad it’s Wonderhussy Wednesday. There is light at the end of the tunnel🥳
All to often, "The light at the end of the tunnel" is the headlight of an on coming train. Oh, and, "One good turn"...usually gets most of the blanket.
You are a great story teller. I really enjoy my time with you.
The one bed I grew up with and mom called it a hide away bed. Matter a fact the hotels use to have them in a storage room incase the family needed another bed in their hotel room.
Back in the day Sears had an excess stock of moldings & fancy work. To unload the trim, they started selling full home kits, many were sold in treeless areas. My GG had one in OK.
Boley ok had a J.C. Penny later became the Do Drop Inn. Thanks to Willie
There is one in Big Pine, CA
Ahh. the oregon outback. My favorite play ground. Did you see that 7' sage brush by the front gate? I found an ancient hunting camp out in that desert. I found ambush walls, processing table, and two ancient graves. I can't say where it is but i've taken nothing from there and left a little tobacco.
How would you know for sure that there was two graves without digging them up ???
@@rogerhenson6589 How do you know they aren't graves without seeing what i saw and the entire site complex? People lived, hunted and died there.
@@PACstove well we don’t 😂 lets just call them mysterious pile of rocks.
@@rogerhenson6589 Yeah, go ahead and make up your own science and your own story.
I was born in Contra costa county and lived in Berkeley and Walnut Creek. Now Live in Amador county refurbishing homes built in the 1850s
If you ever want to tour old houses in gold country let me know. Steeped in gold country history!
Concord ....
For a second you sounded like a relator "can't you see the potential in this large ranch kitchen? " lol
2:59 WE HAD THAT SAME FLOORING IN OUR KITCHEN WHEN I WAS A CHILD IN THE 1970'S
It’s crazy how I smile when I see you post a new video. Thank you 😊
My Great Grand Parents lived out there. Burns Oregon. Then they moved to the big city. Eugene/Baker
My great grandparents lived in Burns and my grandmother was born and raised there.
You talking to yourself is not crazy! You talking to a lot of other crazy people however is crazy! Sincerely yours truly! ALL stay safe thank you
*Dinner vs. Supper*
In the days of yesteryear, especially on ranches and farms, "dinner" was the "main meal" of the day. It was served "midday" (around noon), when the hot Sun was at its zenith (straight overhead and casting harsh shadows).
In terms of volume and caloric content, dinner was the largest meal of the day, and it provided the energy to work the remaining hours of available sunlight.
"Supper" was usually served near or after sundown. The meal was traditionally lighter in terms of bulk and calories.
The meal was intended to "supplement" the earlier larger "dinner." Thus, the name "supper" derived from "supplement."
After supper, the ranchers/farmers usually would not ingest additional food. They would "fast" until they awoke the next morning. At first light, they would begin working for a short period before temporarily stopping to "break the fast" from the prior evening. Thus, breaking the fast evolved into the word "breakfast."
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Wow!! I can remember houses like that as a kid. My Grandparents lived in ranch houses where all the women would be cooking and even dressing out chickens after slaughter. Ranch life is a working life, from before sun up your working, I remember my Grandmother teaching me how to milk the Cows, I was about 4 or 5 and at first it was fun but soon learned its not as fun as it looked. Feeding the Chickens is an art form, they will swarm you so you have to be bold and show them whose boss and collecting the eggs is not so easy and if Grandma had marked eggs not to be collected because she's raising chicks you'll get a whack on the back side. If you have horses their great but some like to bit or nibble on you and they will chew on anything. I didn't see a toilet so there must have been out houses there some place, also I seen that the upper rooms at one time had been divided and the one was pink so they had daughters I'm assuming. I'm very lucky to have seen and experienced ranch life but not live it my whole life. Thanks for the video Shara and the stories. 👍👍👍👍👍♥️🇺🇸
Yes things are nice as long as you don't have to do to live every day life us older foxes are lucky to have seen a lot of things but not so old as to have had to live the life
Great video mam
Thank you my dear
I know I'm watching this a year late, but your absolutely right about the desolation of that part of Oregon. I've done alot of traveling through the deserts of the west, but one year when I was a kid, me my brother and my mom were going back to Wyoming from the Oregon coast, and my mom just was in the exploring mood and went through south eastern Oregon. After that, going across Nevada and the Salt flats of Utah was a very welcome journey.
Dang, I live in Oregon and did not know about this ranch. I'll definitely drive out there and check it out. Love places like this
I missed parts of this as I tried to figure out where that annoying music sound was coming from... as I muted the TV, and thought I was hearing things 🤣 Great video! ❤
While employed on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.. I had the pleasure along with other residents to make friends with the wranglers at the 10x ranch..south of the park..they would host bar be ques and gatherings for their friends..their work was just like the old days..10x was an Arizona State ranch I was told..good and memorable times
I live not far from there
Thanks, Sarah Babe, for the postcard from the playa, glad ya got it!
What you are standing in is what made America and what makes America great and what will make America great again that's our history that you're walking through right now
On a farm or ranch, the main meal was served at noon and was usually called dinner. They would ring the dinner bell. No one ever rings a lunch bell. The lighter evening meal was called supper. People who live in cities have different titles for noon and evening meals, but I will point out that while there were many supper clubs (fine dining and dancing) I have never heard of a dinner club. A lunch for these people would be an impromptu meal produced for unexpected company and made up of sandwiches and whatever baked goods were around. They could be very bare bones or pretty elaborate depending on the talent of the house cook.
Thanks for the great tour....best wishes from down under.
Hi Sarah, I think I could probably name over half the parts on the table. Most guys would recognize the auto parts on the table. The long bar with the spiral pieces goes with the other parts with them. They look to make up a cultivator that would attach to a tractor that could be raised and lowered.
As long as the wood squares have boards in the bottom they’re probably parts bins, many for nuts and bolts. If they don’t have bottoms they’d probably be for rakes, shovels and long handled tools. When you show those places it makes me want to explore with you. I’m probably not alone though.🤷🏻♂️ might need more than one of us to keep.🙂😉 Stay safe and have fun Sarah!
Lived and worked in Walnut Creek for many years, bartended at Abernathy's
"The big ol' pot of tea with friends" brings back great memories.
I’ve lived in Oregon most of my life and I’ve never heard of this place before, but I am up near Portland and don’t get out much anymore because of mobility issues with my back, but this looks like a place I could probably handle and would love to check out. My husband has been itching to get out and do something like we used to do!!
I recently went to one of the many dry lake beds out there and wanted to test how well old dry cow dung worked for the camp fire. I have a pac stove i use so its more efficient than open camp fire. Its great because its very little smoke from the fire, but what was really cool is that there was this dull purple/blueish flame from the fire when it died down. I was just researching what might cause that and my best guess is that the metal salts from the dry lake bed blew far enough around the area that even the cow dung has it in it. So, if you want cool colored camp fire. Get cow dung from around dry lake beds.
I thought (don't really know) that the bluish tint indicated that there was sufficient oxygen in the flame.
@@delstanley1349 No. And this is more in between blue and purple.
@@PACstove Methane?
@@Jeff-jg7jh Not possible. Its the alkali salts.
I can almost here Mr Shirk say " I can never be left alone , a place like that would draw a lot of unwanted transient looking for a free place to live in a nice place if they could just get in the door they would never leave
I'm gonna "Shirk" off working and watch this video...with a libation...or two...cause we'll, it's Wonderhussy Wednesday 🤣🍸👍💖
Clink 🍻
Thanks for the video 👍
The upstairs room at 9:00 was likely a bunk house for the hired hands who worked tirelessly to keep the ranch going. 🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠
In back of the barn/shed were old car parts. The item you picked up was a very old car water pump. Thanks Sarah for taking me along....Russell D.
Yep.
Hi Sarah, I’m from Atlantic Canada 🇨🇦 and my ancestry goes way back in this part of Canada to the 1700’s and most of my people were fishermen way back probably the odd trapper. When men first came here and began to settle year round, they could apply for land called “plantations”, these definitely were NOT the “antebellum” kind of plantations. Men who were plantation owners were responsible providing a boat(s), outbuildings for cleaning, preparing fish to send to Europe and West Indies. Building their own house they had large families back then. Also they were responsible for getting men to help him the plantation owner, to fish, COD was the fish. They also had to have a place for the hired men, to stay. These buildings were called”bunk houses” the plantation owners wife was responsible for making the meals for her family and the hired men. Even as late as back in the 1950’s and 1960’s fishermen who had property and a boat, had hired men to help out in the summer, and they would have a bunkhouse. So some of those out buildings on that property may have been hired hands, ranch hands?
Thanks for the tour
I built an outdoor pizza oven from field stones onsite, at the cottage in Standish on Sebago Lake, Maine years ago.
Love me some Hussy tonight on my Thursday/ Friday days off.
blessed are you to be friend to little one prayers answered
Hello, I looked it up just for the hell of it to see when linoleum was invented and it was 1860. I didnt think it was around that long but actually is much older than I expected! So....just for the record...1860
Absolutely breathtaking views Sarah,appreciate U sharing the awesome vids with stories. The places are on my bucket list 💯. Sorry I can't be there, your vids are definitely the next best thing🎬 👏👏😘. Safe travels wonder ✌️
WONDERHUSSY Wednesdays giving me life thanks Miss
This is the stuff I love from you,
so, very interesting! GO, class of 93/94
Good to see ya
I saw Star Wars when I was five years old at a theater in Walnut Creek!
14:54 Yikers! One big gust and the whole building will come down on that corner!
I didn’t find this place as creepy as some of the others you’ve explored. The house actually looked like it was in pretty good shape. The sink outside the back door was for workers, kids, husband that had been working out on the farm/ranch could clean up before going into the kitchen. Which would end up being the first room entered in a lot of ranch houses. Where the shower was there for the same reason generally. All the mucky clothes could be left there, and you could shower off. With all the outhouses there, it was a pretty big ranch. Lots of workers, or a really big family was working it. I kind of miss those days…….stay safe WH!! ❤️❤️❤️
Shout out to Walnut Creek! I lived there in the early to mid 80's, nice town.
Cow chips were used for fuel out West.
Supper the evening meal..dinner the mid day meal..lunch if it is not a large spread
Dang, Wondethussy. I usually find your vlogs so interesting, informative and, most of all, relaxing. Well, I just paused this video to let you know that I was checking my blood pressure early on in your video. My normally ok blood pressure was very high. I blame it on the swinging door. That flipped me out. 😳
Very good vid!! Love that area and dwellings!
Thank you for the wonderful share. Learned a lot !!
Dinner was lunch and supper was the evening meal where I grew up.
Those weren't easy times. Had he not shot that hand from the competing ranch, he probably would have ended up in Boot Hill instead of Berzerkly. Anyway, that was a pretty good
explore...revealing much regarding the architecture of the time. And the story was interesting...even though You didn't come up with it🙂. Thanks so much for sharing...and
much love, Sarah Jane.
The government should get their rear out there and put some paint on those buildings if they really want to preserve them. Once the nails rust away, the siding just falls off. Sarah should have been an archeologist, she seem to enjoy exploring old settlements.
Tea and Shrooms sounds good at a place like this🥰
The night sky would be awesome too!
Great video… keep’em coming and stay safe😬
Fish fry on Friday night also is referred to as Dinner but I think it taste better if called Supper
Another excellent movie set location.
LAST SUPPER is our dinner. Thanks so much!
You know Sarah I think this is probably the best video you had of abandoned places I mean that place was cool a lot was going on there no doubt reminds me when I was a young man in the Mojave Desert actually back then it was anyway it's around the area of the Indian museum in California and I found a place that was a two-story small shack upstairs where everybody slept and downstairs there was one wall full of Witchcraft books yeah it's I tell you what this one I like and the stories you tell I mean seriously I like all your videos thank you Sarah talk to you later I hope bye-bye
Another fabulous adventure!
Nice one. Supper/Dinner = evening meal.
May I suggest (from an abundance of caution, and hard learned lessons) always walk on the outside of the stairs. Although those stairs looked fine, I've seen you on others that made me cringe. The supports are on the sides. And hoo boy, I guess I should share more information that I have gleaned over the decades of historical (sanctioned) and just curious exploring but I know that most folks don't want to hear it. I suspect that you may be different but I just hate jumping up into someone's life and telling them anything. Nor am I an expert, or able to evaluate what anyone is looking at a moment on a video. However, I have lived till today and I do know some stuff. Thank you for the fearless exploration and ruthless explanation of the history in your neighborhood. We need more of this!
Another Amazing Vide'o Wonderhussy! You're a natural star
Awesome 😎
Contrary to you Wonderhussy, the homestead doesn't come across very 'spooky' to me, but that's just by judging from your video. Love the beautiful weathered wood on these old sunbeaten buildings!
You survived Burning Man I see. You should do a video on how it’s been ruined.
I wonder if the house came in a kit that they ordered from Sears Roebuck!
Dinner can be either lunch or supper, it's the big meal of the day.
Love you Sarah Jane! Keep up the vids! 😍😍
Subscribers looks like we all love this video Sarah did good
Dinner is lunch. Main meal. Supper is evening more like a snack. At least for the ranch I worked for in Utah.
Dinner is lunch. Supper is Supper.
They really need to keep it up a little better, like keep the windows repaired and keep the roof from leaking, nothing destroys a building faster than a leaking roof.
Excellent!
That was spooky when the door opened and closed when you poked your head in
Good morning Wonderhussy.
I remember playing that game that game was almost impossible to complete. Also Wondserhussy you look so gorgeous today.
Great video
I swear, we had the exact same linoleum pattern on our kitchen floor as in the entranceway in the distant past. (early eighties)
Where I am from supper and dinner can be used for either name for the last meal of the day and lunch is just called lunch.
Hi Jean took me back too when I watched 'Wagon Train' with Ward Bond starring. No Cholera in them days, just circle the wagons and shoot a few injuns. From a UK sub.
Loved that place! Someone probably put that cow poo to dry out to use for a fire. My house is 1890 an it had linoleum in the upstairs hallway. It had grain like wood. Wish i wouldn't have taken it out. That flowered linoleum looks like my 1975 wallpaper. Such a cool place. Thank you
Old flooring often has asbestos in it. Better just to cover it up.
@@rogersmith7396 yep. I know that now. I was trying to take out 3 layers of linoleum in my kitchen. There's a maple floor underneath. I tore quite a bit out before I thought of that. I grabbed the dog an went outside.
@@chrisblack8390 I watched a stupid woman home decorator vid. Money was no object to her as long as it was'nt hers. The flooring guy told her they could recover it cheaply or bring in a hazmat crew and pull it up and decontaminated for big bucks. Of course she said pull it up. She also did'nt like where the breaker box was and told them to move it at great cost. As I said, not her money.
Asbestos is a naturally occuring element in Nevada. It blows in the air. Also in ground water. They also uncover it in mines. Not the greatest health advert. Its certainly in those hot springs as well as other bad elements/bacteria.
5:44 Looks Rancher Elmer Shirk won that coveted 100 square foot Z-Brick and maybe even a year supply
of Rice-a-Roni on "Let's Make a Deal" during that family trip to LA in 1979.
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Oh my Sarah Jane with that door opening no way would I go in their. 😮
Really interesting sarah. That’s a crazy thing to see on a work bench. Lol
Bat poop is GREAT for cannabis plants when they're in the flowering stage!
just smoke the bat poop. you'll get high
A well built house for it age, the porch made me think the rest of the house would be as fragile, but I would still be wearing boots in that place! Step carefully!
I believe the bins would have straw in them for the hens to lay their eggs!
Suppers is dinner little miss wonderhussy😵💫
That's my house I got it for a good price and I gave that house to you. It could be a good place no it is a perfect place just need a lot of work done to the ranch farm. Seriously I was joking about buying the house but I would love to buy the ranch house if I had a way to travel and get some money..!!!! Amazing ranch house it's in good shape. *Thank you. Wonderhussy* for uploading your video.
I would like to find a place to get away from capitalism and consumerism.
I'm his lawyer and this is true. enjoy wonderhussy