Papaw And The Spring Shed

If you've ever dipped your feet in spring water then you already know how cold it gets. Try taking a bath in it. Whoooo! (Won't hurt you, but that homemade lye soap will nearly take your hide off.) Papaw used to say his nose was "running like a spring branch". That's a branch of the spring which comes through your farm. (a coveted thing). Papaw built a wooden shed over the spring. It was four walls and a roof with no floor, and that's where he kept the potatoes he dug from his garden. He banked them up around the walls so they would stay dry, and then the water from the spring kept the shed cool.