Thread: My mother, the time machine---

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Originally Posted by stovens

Grandma had these great aluminum drinking glasses that were dinged up and different colors.

I still have & use a set of those....



I'm much younger then some of you "Old Farts" but I do remember some of those days when we'd go visit my Dad's mom & his sister in northwest Iowa. Grandma did all the cooking on her wood burning stove but used corn cobs in it. Home made breads, jams, fried chicken that was to die for, german pancakes in a cast iron skillet, man could that woman cook. Only heat in the place was a big potbelly stove she had. The bed were feather bed that would suck you in & you could get lost in them. We took a bath outside in a big wastub & had to pump any water from the outside well. She had a 3 holer outside by the barn. And it was in the early 60's just before she passed away when she finally got a dial phone rather then using the crank phone.
My Aunt Katie & Uncle Art did have it a tad better they had oil or gas heat & an electric stove, but we still have to use the outhouse, pump any water they used wan, bathed in a washtub, grew 75% of everything they ate. It wasn't intil the 70's when there kids said enough && help build them an indoor bath & install a pump.

Man, o'man did this reply hit a nerve , man do I ever miss those people. What I would give to be 5-10yrs old again & be able to go back & relive those days again. I've give anything to be sitting at my grandmathers kitchen table waiting for those loaves of hot bread to come out. She's always make one just for me. I would pull the inside out of it & then spread homemade jelly & butter on the crust && eat it, mmmmmm I loved her bread.....joe