[AGL] Fwd: FW: gone-by years when we were kids.

[Frances Morey]

This could as easily read--"...when our parents were kids." I am old enough to have seen kitchens with hand pumps set over a well, two that I can reacall, one on the deMontel ranch near Castroville and the other at 1111 W. 11th where my landlady, Rosa Kunz, lived in what was once the Texas Military Academy up on a hill overlooking downtown Austin.
  My late brother, Maurice, once teased the parents who expressed awe at some innovation, that they still were surprised by the phenomenon of indoor hot and cold running water. The house my family lived in was built in the 1870's and had to be modifyed with every "new fangled" convenience, made for an interesting floor plan.
  Frances

Carolyn Westergren <crapemyrtle17 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 07:57:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carolyn Westergren crapemyrtle17 at yahoo.com
  
  

  I don't think kids today know what an apron is.     

    The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

    

    It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

    

    From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

    

    When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

    

    And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

    

    Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

    

    Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

    

    From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

    

    In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

    

    When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

    

    When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

    

    It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.

    

    Send this to those who would know, and love the story about Grandma's aprons.

    

    REMEMBER:

    

    Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.

    

    Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

   



 
  
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