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    1. The old days
    2. Note from Mom, after reading Donna's email Golly kids, this sounds like when I was growing up, We didn't have refrigeration when I was young until I was 13 or 14, then it was called a coolerator, we had to buy ice from the ice man that went thru the country or town and you put your ice wanted sign in the window to tell him you needed ice. When I was real young , my mom always put the left overs in the cellar or in the middle of the table and covered with a dish towel or tablecloth. Having 6 children, there wasn't many left overs, She always bought an oil cloth for the table in a pretty pattern every year and every two years we bought a new 9x12 linoleum rug for the kitchen floor. and tried to match the oil cloth to the linoleum(sp) boy, do I need spell check on this computer, I use to have it, but not on this program. When little Louellen started to school. She talked like this and her teacher went to visit Warren and Nadine one day and she went back and said I can see why she talks that way and after listening to Warren, I just give up. Warren and Helen were much worse than the rest of us . Helen and family came to visit us when we lived in Minneapolis one time, we were gone, so Helen went across the street to see if the neighbors knew where we were. Helen said to Pearl, they probably went to do their trading. Pearl and Len never did get over that. They sure had a laugh out of it. In Missouri where we lived, everyone did their trading instead of shopping. In those days, you would trade your eggs or cream for groceries. These were good old days and our people had hearts of Gold. Marie West

    12/20/2005 05:35:47