Frying Pan Bell
This is our dinner bell. It is simply an old cast iron frying pan hung at the side of our cottage by some polywire with a stick hanging below. The poly wire is important, other strings decay in the sunlight and weather but the polywire has stainless steel strands which hold up.
We also use walkie-talkies and calls to communicate over the distances of the farm but there is something homey about the iron bell.
Outdoors: 34°F/24°F Sunny
Tiny Cottage: 66°F/62°F
Daily Spark: When someone starts out by saying, “In all honesty…” or “To tell the truth…” it gives me the impression that normally they lie.
Walter Jeffries Tinker, Tailor… A bit eclectic & a tad eccentric, polymath, quantum mechanic & Farmer. Also lucky at cards.
My mom used something like this to call the pigs home – very effective.
With two teenage boys I’m surprised that you’d even need to ring a dinner bell. Seems like they’d be underfoot the whole time, looking for food.
*grin* Ours cook. Even Hope, age 9, cooks meals.
Is that a ferris wheel up on the background?!
That is the metal reel from the 2,500′ of 2″ water line we installed last year. You can see that Water Line Reel and Water Line Pull. It does look like a ferris wheel, doesn’t it… :)