Do you ever consider how the lives we live are so very different than the lives of our people who have gone on before?
My grandmother lived all her life in carroll co. ar.She told me that when she was a girl everone heated and cooked at a fire place. We all know this is true but the other thing she told me was that no one had matches or any way to start a fire. Year around summer or winter the last thing our people did before going to bed was raking the ashes over the embers of their fire. In the morning they would rake back the ashes and place dry material on the live coals to start the fire for the new day.
she said if someone neglected to bank their fire at the close of day, in the morning they had no fire. When this happen the family would take a pot and walk to a neighbor to borrow fire. grandma was proud of the fact that her family never had to borrow fire from a neighbor.
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Old Sister..
went to Harrison to day to see my baby girl. I showed her your blog and she is going to start one too.
We bookmarked yours so she can read what you have said. I told her how I love it and want you to know that the first thing I do each morning is check your blog to see what you have to say.
Please don't stop. As it is the highlight of my day...to se how your day is going.
Now my baby will be talking with us.
Sweet Sister!
Reading these posts is a little bit like reading "Little House on the Prairie." I loved those books.
it not little house on the prairie. velvet sack, more like trailor trash!
at least old sister lives in a trailor, if she is trash can be up to question.
I guess we must get some of our obsessions from that side of the family. I am sure none of us would loose our fire either even if we had to take turns watching it all night! I am also never late for anything and I think all of my Sisters are the same way.
My mother grew up in the oil fields of west Texas during the 1920s with dirt floor shacks and no conveniences. My father was born in 1900 and served in the army during both world wars...it has always astounded me to think of the changes those two people saw in their lifetimes.
Carmon
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