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end trying to do a whole week’s worth of work. And we’d get calls at home at night that something had gone wrong. We’d jump in the car, get here at midnight or so, try to fix whatever it was in the dark, be back home at 3.”
The family lived in a tent part of that time. “And there were times that we were cold and wet,” he said.
He added that their neighbors, Sid and Dorothy Mank, rescued them from several different catastrophes.
It became clear to the Antonys that they’d have to change their schedule somehow.
“One summer Sandra and Chris stayed here, and I came on weekends and sometimes in the middle of the week. But, with rush hour, it would take me three hours to get to work,” Mr. Antony said.
By then, he and some family helpers had converted the barn into a house.
“I guess it was good that it happened that way,” Mr. Antony said. “I wasn’t afraid to build a barn, but I never would have started out to build a house myself.”
Last December, they made their final move, with Mr. Antony accepting a job at Vint Hill Farms Station near Warrenton and the family moving everything into the converted barn, now a cozy house with no clues to its original purpose except for gigantic double doors. (“We’d have no trouble moving a piano in,” said Mrs. Antony.)
It’s still a rigorous schedule during the growing season, though. “Sandra is literally working 18-hour days right now,” Mr. Antony explained.
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