Good story Nick, sad ending though. Thanks,Jody Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E -------- Original message --------From: Nick Tullius <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/18 3:45 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "'Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) '" <[email protected]> Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls Hello Daniela, How to keep a Banat-Swabian home clean - before and after the War: http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/memories/cleanliness-eng-de~NT.htm Nick -----Original Message----- From: Daniela Hieslmayr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March 13, 2018 2:54 PM To: Darlene Dimitrie; [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. Liebe Grüße, Daniela Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter <[email protected]>: >I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >life was like in Yugoslavia. > >We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would load >the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would bring it >back to the house.  They would roll wood and straw into the dirt for the >walls to strengthen them. > >Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >was 90 years old, and passed away the next year.  I have a vivid picture >  in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >and the dirt. > >Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >their homes a fresh look for the spring.  Does anyone remember what else >went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. > >Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >their homes.  My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >every day.  You were considered rich if you had wood floors  Was the >roof mud too?  What about interior walls?  She said that the walls were >thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >summer or too cold in the winter. > >Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >were for wine-making. > > >-- >Darlene >http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >