Fast rebuilding!

I saw smoke off to the east Sunday afternoon. The wife went to town about an hour later and said they were telling in the grocery store that there was a barn fire out at a Mennonite farm two miles east of town on my aunt and uncles old place.
I came by there yesterday afternoon about 1:30 on my way home from the stockyard and couldn't even see where there'd been a barn fire,just some smoke coming up down next to a swamp. There were a couple of guys out back setting some poles though. They had three leaning lop sided in the holes.
This morning about 10:30,I had to go to the Agco dealer for parts and went by there. They had all the poles set,rafters up and were putting on the 2x4s on a pretty good sized barn. The smoke was still smoldering off by the swamp.
The wife wanted to stop at the Mennonite store on the way home,so I asked in there what was going on. She said that was where the fire was alright. She said they lost two tractors,a bunch or round bales,a generator and an air compressor. She said they used a hydra hoe to take the burning bales out and shoved them off to the side.
It was about 1:30 then when we came back past the place and they had all the steel on the roof and were staring to put it on the sides.
Here it is 4:30 and I'd bet anything you want to bet that they're done and packing up to go home and do chores. The whole yard was full of buggys and pickups. Must have been quite a crew.

That is the way those good neighbors do for each other;around here too,S. central Pa.

It's good to know that it still exists. It's a shame to know that it's vanishing from our society. Been blessed with a good neighborhood myself. Where word goes out when help is needed and neighbors show. And when there is a reason to celebrate they pitch in also. I grew up that way and it's changed through the years. It's good to see for my piece of mind and my children's upbringing. We live near the Mennonite area and I know this for sure, best derned church feed ever did et. This story reminds me of a home movie that was taken of a neighborhood barn raising in the late 60's. The cast of neighbors, home built components, even the hosting cook was pounding nails when she had the daughters to task. Been in construction for 28 yrs and know that it would be a three month planning process before todays pencil pushers would have ground broke. Barring any ecological studies. More power to them.

About the yr. 2000 on my way to work at 6:30 in the morning, I came up on a road block. Up ahead I could see fire trucks and flames at an Amish home. That night I came by and most of the house was gone and cleaned up. This was on a Thursday. The very next Monday I drove by in the Morning and there stood a brand new house. Very impressive. Lighten had struck and caused the fire. No one got hurt.

I'm guessing they didn't have to wait on a permit?
Ron