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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Off Subject Flour sacks and Such (Glenda)
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:07:23 -0500
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Glenda,

I loved reading your memories! Some of the food makes me SO hungry, and I
have already eaten for the day! :)

I can remember the wood burning stoves, and I actually have a good-sized
scar on my inner leg where I got too close and burned myself good! :(

The yeast rolls are a wonderful memory to me, as well! And, the dumplings!

Thanks for sharing

Jean C



At 11:50 PM 1/31/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Now that I think about it, I believe it was juice cans as it was too tall to
>be anything other than that. I never saw the Sears Catalog door stops.
>Ours were Christmas trees out of Readers Digest, painted green, with
>glitter. Wow, weren't they bea-ti-ful???
>
>You know the thing I remember the most from my childhood was eating!!! We
>could talk but we couldn't goof around at the table and all of us ate at the
>same time. The good biscuits, the gravy, fried chicken, chicken &
>dumplings, and Mother's fantastic yeast rolls. Good gracious, I'd give a
>$100 bucks for one right now. And just think she cooked 3 meals a day, 7
>days a week. She sure couldn't talk Daddy into going for takeout! He'd
>have to drive too far and it would have been cold by the time he got back -
>LOL - and not to mention we couldn't afford it either. If we couldn't grow
>it, kill it, or trade it, we didn't often have it.
>
>I remember hog killing day. All the neighbor men coming by and all the work
>we women had to do putting it up while they stood around and had a good
>time. It use to make me mad because I was doing more work than my brother
>was because he hung out with the big guys.
>
>And don't forget about chopping cotton. You had to wear a bonnet to keep
>from getting sun burned and you had to wear those beautiful old brown cotton
>gloves to keep from getting blisters. AND then before you know it, it'd be
>time to pick the stuff. You wore the same gloves but you cut off the
>fingers so you could grab the cotton. But your hands were chapped and
>cracked anyway - Gosh, that hurts me now to think about it.
>
>Another memory was washing DAY and I do mean it took all day. The hanging
>out on the clothes line, the clothes pin bag, the jeans hanging out on those
>wire stretchers, and in the winter time, the clothes coming in frozen stiff.
>
>I remember in the winter time waking up and running out to the living room
>where the old wood stove was, putting your b____ towards the fire and
>lifting up your gown to get warm. You could only get warm on one side, you
>know.
>
>Well, I guess I've gone and told everybody my age but those good ole'
>Arkansas days....I do miss them - although I kinda like my house, my fancy
>car, my 'puter, sleeping til you want to get up, and of course, the
>takeouts. LOL
>
>Good night all. I'm going to bed and dream about those yeast rolls! Glenda



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