Charlene Grunertâs latest attempt to summon something miraculous involves a classified advertisement.
âJust barely getting by, month-to-month, looking for a miracle,â Charlene wrote in the ad she placed in the Watertown Daily Times.
Desperate and losing hope, she purchased the classified ad hoping for divine intervention in saving the barns that have been in her family for about a century. Sheâs lived on the property, once an active dairy farm and horse stable a few miles outside the city of Watertown on State Route 283, for several years.
The spirit of her grandparents and mother still roam the old farm and Charlene occasionally is lucky enough to harvest a special memory about them. She told me about one when staff photographer Kara Dry and I visited her last week.