DreamWeaver said: I would flush the toilet on the bathroom.....
Wow! You had a bathroom to flush lol!
I remember the two hole out house. A sears roebuck catalog beside one of the holes
In the summer time we didn't get any shoes, that was for winter time only, and (school).
In the summer it was pig party time! In other words us younguns had to round up the older pigs, run them through a shoot to be loaded up on a truck to be sold.
It was messy but boy was it fun, we would feast on ice cold watermelon and didn't care how sticky our elbows got from it!
If we had grits for breakfast and there was some left over, you knew what was for snack, baked grits pudding! Don't ask me how to make that, I never got the recipe! I'm not sure if I'd want it.
If we were outside got a cut or a scrape we didn't run to Ma crying, we would fill the wound full of dirt and go on doing what we were doing.
We had one television station; CBS, and I ate more dirt than I care to remember.
We would catch junebugs tie strings around them and fly them till they died!
That was fun!
We had china berry wars with sling shots; OUCH!
We would play outside from daylight to just about dark. We would jump out of the loft of the barn on huge mounds of hay. We didn't care if it was used or not, we were having fun!
We also had to work!
Even the youngest of us had stuff to do. If it was to pick up the house they had to do it. We worked in the cotton fields too. We had vegetables like butterbeans, peas, squash, corn, tomatoes, and whatever else you can think of that had to be gotten in and prepared.
In the autumn it was time to run chichens, we would put them in the freezers for winter.
We never lacked for anything! And we never got sick, no had ear infections or any of the other ailments prevalent today with our grand kids. We were very healthy.
The good old days... Things were a lot less complicated, a lot more fun! You knew who your neighbors were and you could trust them.
Sunday after church we would go visiting! The front porch was the place to be if you were an adult.
If you were a kid, you'd best not be hanging around the adults, you'd better be in the yard playing but where they could watch you. It was great!
I wished it was like that again...
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