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Arnold
Jan 23, 2012, 9:03:08 PM1/23/12
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Do you remember ….?
How many of the readers remember flour sack curtains and even dresses
and shirts? Mother kept my sisters and me pretty well-outfitted using
decorative and patterned flour sacks for making our clothes.
How many of you remember drawing water from a well or going to a
spring to fetch water or catching rain water in a barrel for household
use?
What about hog killings? How many have participated in slaughtering a
hog on a cold winter’s morning? It would be an all-day affair and a
good cold snap was mandatory.
Have you ever consumed chicken feet and dumplings? We did not waste
anything at our house.
Virtually every day, Mother made butter.
We grew most of our food and thought we were deprived because we had
to eat homemade bread. My sisters and I thought peas and beans out of
cans were better than what we grew, picked and shelled – proof that
you tend to want what you can’t have. Daddy would often say, “Those
kids will eat anything that comes in a can or wrapped in cellophane.”
We picked wild plums and blackberries and Mother made pies, jelly and
jam.
We kept chickens and gathered fresh eggs daily.
Mother used to make homemade doughnuts and I could smell them for a
mile.
Surely everyone still knows that cooked-custard ice cream made in a
hand-cranked freezer is the best.
Do you remember GRIT newspapers? I used to sell them.
How long has it been since you stopped whatever you were doing to
marvel at the high distant vapor trail of a jet airplane?
When did you last cook off a mess of cracklins?
Do you remember buying ice in blocks?
Have you ever taken a bath in a galvanized wash tub?
Do you know how to weigh a sack of cotton? It was lots of fun riding
to the gin in the back of a cotton trailer.
Have you ever sat on a porch at night listening to foxhounds?
Did you ever clean a ditch bank with a kaiser blade?
Do you remember the fun of playing in a hayloft?
Did you ever play mumblety-peg?
Have you ever saved fresh eggs to put under a setting hen?
I bet most folks these days don’t know how to cut up a chicken, let
alone dress one,
There are several acceptable ways to kill a chicken but I won’t go
into that. I will tell you how to catch one for Sunday dinner without
chasing. Get yourself a wire coat hanger, straighten it out, and put
about a 4-inch, narrow bend on the end of it. Scatter some cracked
corn or other enticement around on the ground for the chickens and
snag the one you want by the foot with the coat hanger.
Copyright © 2008 by Arnold D. Dyre
All rights reserved
How many of the readers remember flour sack curtains and even dresses
and shirts? Mother kept my sisters and me pretty well-outfitted using
decorative and patterned flour sacks for making our clothes.
How many of you remember drawing water from a well or going to a
spring to fetch water or catching rain water in a barrel for household
use?
What about hog killings? How many have participated in slaughtering a
hog on a cold winter’s morning? It would be an all-day affair and a
good cold snap was mandatory.
Have you ever consumed chicken feet and dumplings? We did not waste
anything at our house.
Virtually every day, Mother made butter.
We grew most of our food and thought we were deprived because we had
to eat homemade bread. My sisters and I thought peas and beans out of
cans were better than what we grew, picked and shelled – proof that
you tend to want what you can’t have. Daddy would often say, “Those
kids will eat anything that comes in a can or wrapped in cellophane.”
We picked wild plums and blackberries and Mother made pies, jelly and
jam.
We kept chickens and gathered fresh eggs daily.
Mother used to make homemade doughnuts and I could smell them for a
mile.
Surely everyone still knows that cooked-custard ice cream made in a
hand-cranked freezer is the best.
Do you remember GRIT newspapers? I used to sell them.
How long has it been since you stopped whatever you were doing to
marvel at the high distant vapor trail of a jet airplane?
When did you last cook off a mess of cracklins?
Do you remember buying ice in blocks?
Have you ever taken a bath in a galvanized wash tub?
Do you know how to weigh a sack of cotton? It was lots of fun riding
to the gin in the back of a cotton trailer.
Have you ever sat on a porch at night listening to foxhounds?
Did you ever clean a ditch bank with a kaiser blade?
Do you remember the fun of playing in a hayloft?
Did you ever play mumblety-peg?
Have you ever saved fresh eggs to put under a setting hen?
I bet most folks these days don’t know how to cut up a chicken, let
alone dress one,
There are several acceptable ways to kill a chicken but I won’t go
into that. I will tell you how to catch one for Sunday dinner without
chasing. Get yourself a wire coat hanger, straighten it out, and put
about a 4-inch, narrow bend on the end of it. Scatter some cracked
corn or other enticement around on the ground for the chickens and
snag the one you want by the foot with the coat hanger.
Copyright © 2008 by Arnold D. Dyre
All rights reserved
Joy Marter Tippit
Jan 24, 2012, 10:22:52 AM1/24/12
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Thank you, Arnold Douglas, for sharing.
This is a good one.
I remember the 25 lbs sacks of flour in the early years of Daddy's store.
I remember the 25 lbs sacks of flour in the early years of Daddy's store.
Joy
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