C Nash
Senior Member
Re: BARE HANDS on the sewer conections
remember Mother cooking on the coal fired stove and there was sure some fine food cooked there. Nothing better than coming in from school getting one of those big old baked sweet tatters out of the warmer above the stove and after a stop by the smokehouse and getting a slice of salt pork out of the salt box then hit the woods with my dogs and 22 rifle to get the squirrels that Mother would cook on the stove the next morning for breakfast. Yep, those were some pretty good days. Only had to bath once a week because we had to heat water on the stove. Did get a little cleaner in the summer because a daily trip with soap to the creek for cool off was welcome. No electric bill, water bill, didn't need a car even though Daddy always had one in the shed but it was for Saturday going to town and seeing Roy Rogers or Rex Allen movies. Thought eating out just meant going on picnics. No rent, no house payment and very few grocery to buy. Daddy would work the hoot owl shift in the mines and then come home and hook up the muel and plow the field. I was only a kid so didn't realize how hard he worked at the time but for us kids those were good days. Did hate to chop cotton and pick it. Daddy always said I was the hunter and my brother was the farmer which suited me fine. Well enough for the good old days :approve:
remember Mother cooking on the coal fired stove and there was sure some fine food cooked there. Nothing better than coming in from school getting one of those big old baked sweet tatters out of the warmer above the stove and after a stop by the smokehouse and getting a slice of salt pork out of the salt box then hit the woods with my dogs and 22 rifle to get the squirrels that Mother would cook on the stove the next morning for breakfast. Yep, those were some pretty good days. Only had to bath once a week because we had to heat water on the stove. Did get a little cleaner in the summer because a daily trip with soap to the creek for cool off was welcome. No electric bill, water bill, didn't need a car even though Daddy always had one in the shed but it was for Saturday going to town and seeing Roy Rogers or Rex Allen movies. Thought eating out just meant going on picnics. No rent, no house payment and very few grocery to buy. Daddy would work the hoot owl shift in the mines and then come home and hook up the muel and plow the field. I was only a kid so didn't realize how hard he worked at the time but for us kids those were good days. Did hate to chop cotton and pick it. Daddy always said I was the hunter and my brother was the farmer which suited me fine. Well enough for the good old days :approve:
