I don't know what to start this with, but I walked 2 or 3 miles to catch the school bus. and no matter what the weather was, i don't think they canceled school, at least not the way they do now.

I would always take my lunch which consisted of a BIG biscuit, with saucage,or a canned porkchop, or a fried egg and a slab of bacon. Now i can remember the boys always wanting to trade me a white bread sandwich for my big biscuit. Now that i look back on it, i think i got cheated.

Saturday night, we would play the radio, Which operated by a battery about the size of a car battery, best I remember. and they played the "Grand Ole Opery" Only two or three hours. The news is the only other thing we listened to, and sometimes preaching on Sunday.

All my clothes were hand made, the quilts were hand sewn, each little block and stuffed with cotton, we had to use several to keep warm, There was no heat in the house, other than a wood stove, and many nights the snow would blow through the cracks in the house. I studied by an oil lamp, no wonder i'm half blind now. Once it snowed so hard, we had to dig a tunnel under the snow to get to the barn to feed the cows. Grandma heated snow in a pan on the wood stove and made water for the animals to drink. We would make snow ice cream, i would always get a sore throat from that.

We raised most of our food in a large garden I think it must have been near 2 acres of it. and we had one of the largest grape harbors around. People came from different houses and bought grapes home for their families.

Oh! yes about the Johnnie house, many times when you went there the snake would be there waiting on the rafter for you. That just about scared the notion right out of me.

I was 14 or 15 the first time we lived in a house with electricity a phone and running water.

Just a few of my thoughts.
Rena