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As you can see, the farm consisted of four connected buildings that create a completely enclosed square courtyard between them. There was only one entrance which was through the eastern building and it had a great big door in it which we locked each night before we went to bed. 

All of the buildings were set low and narrow, reaching no more than 16-18 feet in width. The building to the East was the main house while the stables were housed in the building to the North. The two other buildings to the South and West were used as barns and for threshing.

In the living room and in the sitting room we had clay floors, where as in the entryway, the kitchen, the pantry and in the maids room, the floor was comprised of small rounded stones. The sitting room which also was used as a guestroom contained a bed, a cabinet and a pair of chairs (sfv) but no curtains. In the living room there were two beds and under the window on the eastern wall there was a storage bench. During the day it looked like a chest of drawers but during the night it was used as a bed for one to four children.

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The living room clock was wound once every eighth day and its mechanism was housed in a case that went from the floor all the way to the ceiling. It was encased so that no one could touch the two large iron weights that hung by ropes and which ran the mechanism. Then there was a table that was made from black oak and which was ten feet long and three feet wide. The table legs were 6x6 inches in width and the table top itself was also out of oak and two inches thick. On one side of the table there was a drawer which contained the breadknife, which was the only knife in the house. It also held the women's spoons as well as the bread that was left over after each meal. At one end of the table, the one facing the kitchen door, you could always find two pairs of his boots hanging, when he wasn't wearing them. At the opposite end of the table you'd find a storage bench which was where father and mother sat when they ate. This bench was divided into two compartments. In the first compartment mother kept her linens such as shirts, sheets, table clothes and spare clothes. In the other compartment she kept pants and woolen socks. At the one end of the table, the one that faced towards the entryway and the western yard, there was a goose bench which is where the farm hands and the boys sat and ate. The girls always stood in front of the table and ate.