Precisely how it was with us. We usually took turns on first in the bath when the water was still clean.
What Is Found At Grandma's house?
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Even so... my maternal grandmother in their little country place had no livestock, but dozens of cats. My step-grandfather cared for them calling them in the evening and throwing table scraps to out the back door. Their next door neighbor had a small herd of dairy cattle. From them they got milk and then made their own butter in an old fashioned churn. We lived in a small town about 10 miles away so once a week we would make the trip to grandma's house and to that neighbor. We would buy two one gallon glass container of fresh milk... no pasteurization there. It would not last the week so in between trips we had to suffer with the store bought variety in a carton. If there was no money until pay we really suffered with no milk at all.Willie ~ amadeus...braggin y'all had clothes your mama washed for you and food for supper....LOL (just messing with you guys).
We were so poor, I thought everyone else I knew was rich!
Having supper at Grandma's house was always a highlight. And Real Butter Grandma would let us slather it on bread as thick as frosting.
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We were in town but on the edge with a very large lot so my step-dad while working a full time job at nearby cement plant always had a huge garden going with every imaginable kind of vegetable and several fruit trees. That was in central California and everything grew. We had strawberries, raspberries and blackberries on the vine and a couple of massive walnut trees that produced more walnuts than we could ever use. Across the road on a hillside outside town limits was an old apricot orchard that also produced fruit every year.
My mother canned everything so that in the offseason canned fruit and vegetables were available. We also had chickens for eating and for eggs along with rabbits and pigeons. It was almost a tiny farm, but I didn't appreciate how nice it was until we moved to the big city, San Jose, Ca... and everything was store-bought.
PO??? Why we were so poor — I was raised as a poor Mexican boy — we couldn't afford a hacienda…… we lived in a "half-hacienda."
I wish my grandma was like the ones you all had but she was a very strict and straight laced Victorian lady. She was cuddly at all and in her house children had to be seen and not heard.
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I can relate to that...I was always a little afraid of my grandma, but not my grandpa. Mine too were Victorian/ Edwardian ..being born in the late 1800's
I'll dig a couple of photo's ...
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Here is a photo of my grandma on the left ( looking AT the photo)
Mt dads identical twin is behind her with his wife. Next to his wife is my grandpa. Next to him is grandpas brother. As my grandpa is tucked behind
my oldest brother Neil, you can't see grandpas hook on his left hand ... I use to love when he'd say to me " Jenny run into the bedroom and bring my hand to me..then you can take the hook of and screw in the hand."
My mum had a sister called Helen , so I was always Jenny ( my middle name) until my aunt Helen died.
Here is a photo of my grandma on the left ( looking AT the photo)
Mt dads identical twin is behind her with his wife. Next to his wife is my grandpa. Next to him is grandpas brother. As my grandpa is tucked behind
my oldest brother Neil, you can't see grandpas hook on his left hand ... I use to love when he'd say to me " Jenny run into the bedroom and bring my hand to me..then you can take the hook of and screw in the hand."
My mum had a sister called Helen , so I was always Jenny ( my middle name) until my aunt Helen died.
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Here is my dad... ( looks like his twin eh?) he's holding me, with Neil in front of my mum...Robin ( James) ...etc was not born yet...
Here is my dad... ( looks like his twin eh?) he's holding me, with Neil in front of my mum...Robin ( James) ...etc was not born yet...
Beautiful pictures Helen! How fortunate you are to have them.
Things I used to find at Grandma's house...
Was ... Grandma
Was ... Grandma
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And this little black curly dog paw paw called skipper.
Oddly I’d forgotten about him, glad you started this thread @Helen
Oddly I’d forgotten about him, glad you started this thread @Helen
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With me it was the turkeys in my own backyard, fortunately within a fenced enclosure. I hated to go in there alone. It seemed like the male [Tom Turkey] had it in for me. Maybe cause I was just a little fellow at the time and once scared always scared [LOL = OSAS] and that guy was after me.
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This is not at grandmas house, a ours... when I was in my early teens and had started dating ( yes I started early!
)Next door neighbours had two Geese...Mated for life...thing is they seemed to 'live forever', nasty things...they wandered...they would come into our front yard. I used to try and get into the house without them giving any warnings ...but they'd hide around the shrubs ..and as I tiptoed passed, they'd come our shrieking ...and grabbed my ankles ...it used to scare the life out of me, plus it hurt!!! I hated them. Their names were Archie and Veronica . Never to be forgotten.
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