Posted by EX 450 Owner on October 19, 2011 at 18:22:33 from (50.96.222.26):
In Reply to: Things remembered posted by RickSvt on October 19, 2011 at 15:29:38:
Remembering a typical Summer day on my Grandparents farm in the late 1940’s.
Grandma up before dawn starting the wood stove.
Milking before breakfast and before dawn. White gas Coleman lanterns in the milk barn, coal oil lanterns everywhere else.
Separating the Cream.
Listening to the radio during a huge breakfast (News, weather, and Farm Report.) “Need to save the batteries”.
Finish feeding the animals and getting tractors and machinery ready, (Horses if they were being used) shortly after dawn.
Field work all day with a noon break for a big meal. At noon listen to the radio (News, weather, and Farm Report.)
Shutting off the fuel on the regular and F20 to run the carburetor dry of tractor fuel so you could restart on gas after lunch, you would be on the back porch washing up when you would hear the tractors die.
Slipping away to pick something from the orchard (Grandma would make a pie out of anything I would pick and bring to the house).
If in the hay fields (or anything that required harder work and extra help) a lunch about 4:00 PM in the field. Often my job to deliver that, in a couple of gunny sacks on the old saddle horse.
Milking and feeding again at about dark or maybe a little after dark,
Separating the Cream one more time.
Supper time and listen to the radio for a short while, before it was time to go to bed.
My uncle used to joke about working from “kan to kan’t”, working from the time you can see in the morning until you can’t see any more in the evening
On Sundays when they didn’t like to do field work, unless it was absolutely necessary, the chores would be done and supper would be over before dark so you could set on the front porch and watch the sun go down, and if you were really lucky there would be a nice breeze.
Good memory in my old age; but my gosh how hard they worked, sometime I think grandma worked the hardest of all. She was the first one up in the morning and the last one to finish her work at night.
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