--WebTV-Mail-15119-5122 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Liz, Did you ever get to rob the hen nest for an egg to get a peppermint stick from the rolling store. If i remember correct, you could get a bundle of them real cheap. My mom always traded chickens or eggs to get material to make her and my dresses. Or use a flower sack to make mine when i was small. We never had money, but we got what we needed. The rolling store had cages hooked on the side and top of his store to hold Chickens or even pigs. He would trade for abt anything. And he always gave you a good deal. The only spanking i ever got from my daddy was pitching a fit because i had to share my candy with my bro Buford. He told me a couple years ago just before he passed away, I caused him to get all his whippings. Of course he was only kidding. If it wasn't for that old rolling store, alot of us out on those farms wouldn't have gotten the few luxuries of life we got. We could trade our live stock, vegetables which were plentiful on the farms for the things we didn't have money or time to go to the city to buy. But the rolling store could sell anything. I guess you can tell I am blessed with my memories. May you all be Blessed too. Happy New Year to Every one Jimmie in Largo Fl. --WebTV-Mail-15119-5122 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-2206.public.lawson.webtv.net (172.16.213.136) by storefull-2214.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:36:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.39]) by smtpin-2206.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 7F33FFE20; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) id gBTGSo9m023274; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:28:50 -0700 Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:28:50 -0700 X-Original-Sender: lippy01@yahoo.com Sun Dec 29 09:28:50 2002 Message-ID: <20021229162840.35278.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: Janice Redmon Smith <lippy01@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [FLHOLMES] Re: FLHOLMES-D Digest V02 #9 Old-To: FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <b9.2c21fbe9.2b4076c4@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <iuf5d.A.LrF.CLyD-@lists2.rootsweb.com> To: FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/548 X-Loop: FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: FLHOLMES-L-request@rootsweb.com I forgot to tell Jimmie I, also, remember the rolling store when I visited my grandparents. It was so unique and exciting as a city raised girl to walk down the dirt road from my grandmother's house to the rolling store on the next dirt crossroads or have it pull up in front of the house. Trying to see inside the door while my Grandmother gave her order of groceries at the food stuff or pots and pans or trying to figure out the excite piece of candy I wanted to purchase. Janice Redmon Smith --- DLizgerlits@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/29/02 9:39:03 AM Central > Standard Time, > ninnid@webtv.net writes: > > > > I long to > > be on a farm with only a rolling store to buy what > i need to live on. Do > > any of you remember that? > > I remember the hard work from daylight till > dark. My bros getting > > their chores done and being in the field to pick > cotton by daylight. > > Even my mom would have breakfast done and dinner > ready to cook. And > > still go to the field and help gather the crops, > whatever it took she > > was always there. > > I was born in 1941 in Gadsden Co, FL, but I remember > the rolling store and > the little country store where we bought all we > needed to live on. I worked > in the tobacco fields 10 hours a day Monday through > Friday all summer. I > started when I was 6 years old. I was making a > whopping $3.00 a DAY by the > time I was 17. I also picked pecans, beans, > tomatoes, etc. > > The farmers wife, who was the best country cook in > the world (except Mama & > Grandma), fixed the noon meal for us field hands. > The work hard and the > weather was hot, but we survived and were, for the > most part, happy. Yes, I > do long for the good ole days when life was simple. > > Liz Gerlits > Palm Bay, FL > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > ~ ~ > "Recipes from Family, Friends & Strangers," by Liz > Gerlits (a cookbook with a > genealogy flavor). 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