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Originally Posted by Esther
I remember going to see my great aunt Alice. There was no running water and you would have to prime the pump before you could get water out of it. She had a bucket on the back porch with a dipper in it that everyone drank from.
There was no indoor bathroom so you had to walk down to the outhouse pass the hog pen on the right and the chicken pen on the left. Seems there was always red wasp in that little ole house. But at night there was a chamber pot on the back porch and it was really cold.
There was no doors between the rooms they just hung quilts. The rooster woke you up.
Had a hude fireplace that kept the place warm and a wood stove for cooking. And she could cook.
Had a long table with benches for the table with homemade pear preserves, fresh yard eggs and fat bacon with large biscuits. Didn't much care for the "fresh" milk, even if chilled.
There was no electricity so they used oil lanterns when it was dark. But folks went to bed early and got up early.
I learned to not walk in her yard barefooted. 
Had a few cane chairs and some leather chairs that matched the cows out in the fields.
Oh and almost forgot the quilt frame that was over the bed, that was in the living room. |
This sounds like my grandmothers house - complete with the quilting frame over the bed in the bedroom
(Wasp, outhouse and all - cept the pigs were on the other side of the property but the chickens were right there)
You know, I wouldnt mind going to just such a place for about a week or two - for vacation.
just the good old simple basics - outhouse and all.
wouldnt that be peaceful?
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