Try living closer to them then
LOL.. I was born in '59. I remember visiting my great-grandma down in Delray. Her house was out on an old country road. She had an old wood house, which nowadays would be considered a shack, she raised chickens and pigs, had a couple of horses, grew snap beans, tomatoes (she called 'em 'maters),peppers, carrots, and a few other veggies. We'd sit on her rickety front porch in her wooden rockers (built by great grandpa), shelling the peas, snapping the beans, and later in the day, making homemade ice cream.How far back was this?
Don't hurt me!
But I'm still pure awesomeMan your young
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My parents weren't even born in '59.
Shelled pecans and made homemade pecan pie. All from scratch. Back then very little was store-bought. We picked our own strawberries, blueberries, apples, oranges,I know places like that. They where called relatives
My grandmother had 12 brothers and sisters. I loved those kinds of things.
Did you guys shell pecans and stuff like that too?
If only...you parents were a test tube, beaker and a bunsen burner
Shelled pecans and made homemade pecan pie. All from scratch. Back then very little was store-bought. We picked our own strawberries, blueberries, apples, oranges,
Oh, did I mention the outhouse? Met up with a few snakes using the toidie.
Do you remember when all the stores in the little towns has wooden floors? Remember Soda jerks and getting fresh grilled food at the drug store? Remember the general stores where you could get everything from Milk, Flour, and even saddles and ammo at the same place? Remember when there was no such thing as Walmart and little towns where alive in the downtown area? Fishing without a pole in the creek? Noodling for fish?
If I could turn back the clock to that time again I would do it.
and Ties out front for the horses)... A bunch of us that own horses ride down to the Saloon just about every saturday.... more horses than vehicles and this is just a few minutes away from a fairly large city of 75,000 population... There are places like that all over the upper Northwest (ND, MT, ID, SD, WY, WA, CO)...
No need to turn back time... there are places like that still around, ya just gotta know where to find them. The town I grew up in (Shelby, MT) still has a Drug Store (Well's Drug) that is like the old drugs stores to include a grill (open for breakfast and lunch). The area I live in now still has a Mercantile & Saloon (Gas, Mail, Food, Supplies, Bar etc all in one with wood floors
No need to turn back time... there are places like that still around, ya just gotta know where to find them. The town I grew up in (Shelby, MT) still has a Drug Store (Well's Drug) that is like the old drugs stores to include a grill (open for breakfast and lunch). The area I live in now still has a Mercantile & Saloon (Gas, Mail, Food, Supplies, Bar etc all in one with wood floors
Do you still have working cowboys in Montana? I hate to ask this one but, ummm, do you guys still have cowgirls up in your part of the country. I love cowgirls
So you don't like your parents?
Sounds exactly like my grandparents farm near the southern coast of NC. They were tobacco farmers mainly (around there, tobacco farmers were called 'backer hackers). I remember waking up early to the smell of my grandmother making cheese biscuits, grits, and bacon(from their own hogs they butchered themselves) in her iron skillets on her wood burning stove. I also remember us all getting dressed in our Sunday best and walking 100 yards down their dirt road to the little church they attended where all the men sat on one side and the women on the other. I think there are still some pics of me as a very small boy playing in the yard with my cousins in the intense heat of the summer and all of us running around in our skivies (underwear for you non-southerners)...and no incest jokes please
