March 25, 2011
From grandma's diary -
March 21, 1914 - Sat. done saturdays work. baked a cake. mended. was over home. set a hen.
March 22, 1914 - Sun. went to Sunday school and church in morning read ten chapters.
March 23, 1914 - Mon. done washing. cleaned in summer house. mended.
March 24, 1914 - Tues. ironed. cleaned in summer house. cleaned casings for butchering. set a hen.
March 25, 1914 - Wed. butchered. set a hen. mended. Sam was here for dinner and supper.
Well, grandma was pretty busy this week cleaning casings to make sausage and setting more hens. They did some butchering and I presume a hog since she was cleaning the casings. Also she was looking forward to summer as she was cleaning the summer house. The summer house sat just behind the main house and was probably about a 20 by 30 building with one room downstairs and then one room upstairs with a real steep stairs. I remember there was an old wood cookstove downstairs and a table but when I was growing up the summer house was no longer used and there was just a whole lot of old stuff stored there. This was the kind of stuff that "The Pickers" from TV that go around searching for old collectibles would have gone crazy over. To us it was just a bunch of junk. The summer house made a good place to hide out for a pre-teen however.
Apparently in the summer time the summer house was used for cooking and canning keeping the heat out of the main house. In middle to late summer when the thrashers were here and a lot of help with that there was as whole lot of cooking going on.
April 1, 2011
I started out on this entry a week ago so now I have to get caught up again with Grandma's diary.
March 26, 1914 Thur. washed windows and woodwork in summer house. set a hen. had two callers.
March 27, 1914 Fri. baked six loaves of bread. cleaned the attic. set a hen.
March 28, 1914 Sat. done saturdays work. baked fifteen pies and a cake. set a hen. read seven chapters.
March 29, 1914 Sun. went to Sunday school. read eight chapters of Isaiah. had four callers.
March 30, 1914 Mon. cleaned three closets upstairs. Ben Moore was here for dinner. Eph and I spent evening at Sams.
March 31, 1914 Tues. done washing. Curt Swope was here for dinner. Jim Moores spent the evening here.
April 1, 1914 Wed. ironed. mended. set a hen.
Grandma had another busy week doing spring cleaning, setting hens, and baking pies. I'm always amazed at the number of callers and visitors that stop by. I guess that before television people did more visiting. It certainly took a little more effort back then to get the horse and buggy out.
This week we continued trying to tie up loose ends for our trip to New Zealand. We were trying to get the notebooks ready to mail to our intrepid group. Now that the route and itinerary are final and campgrounds have been selected and sites to be seen we put everything together in a notebook for each of the couples. Day to day driving instructions are provided to keep evreyone from getting too lost along the way. This year we are going to have GPS's in the motor homes so no one will have an excuse for getting lost. We have been able to confuse Amelia ( name of our GPS here at home) at times. Basically when we leave in the morning everyone is on their own to follow the suggested route but we suggest that they stop along the way to see the sites and take any side trips that they think might be interesting in order to learn about the country and the people. The only responsibility is to find the campground that has been reserved for that night. If they can't for some reason then we request that they call us to let us know. Hopefully the notebooks will get mailed Monday.
We have been working in the yard on nice days and it is shaping up. Will have to get some mulch on the beds next week. The weather turned cold this week and it took away my desire to work outside. I was supposed to have an instrument training flight with the instructor on Thursday but the snowstorm the night before and the precipitation and low freezing levels cancelled that out.
We went to the Wednesday Lenten service this week again and we continue to find it interesting. The Lenten program was one that Wally our interim pastor suggested and that is studying and learning the gospel basis for Handel's Messiah. This week it was Psalm 24. More later about that.
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