Many a meal was cooked on this stove

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I grew up on a farm in a house that was mostly built by my father. In the mid-1960s, a new house was built which is still lived in today. We visited the old farm recently and I took this photo of the kitchen chimney which is about all that remains of the old house. The stove has been removed. The space looks very narrow to me now but my mother cooked some wonderful meals on that stove. There was a cement hearth and a little hole in the floor at one corner of the cement. We used to sweep the floor then push the dirt down the hole in the floor. Next to the stove was a tap which connected to a rainwater tank on the outside of the wall. As you might imagine, that visit brought back a whole lot of memories.