And what fun times those were, with neighboring farmers gathering to help, and dinner for all on the long table laden with the products of a long morning's cooking by the housewife. Patricia

Patricia, Have you ever been the one who had to cook for those guys? And in the middle of summer with no air conditioning. Remember that was some time ago and out in the country there was no electricity and no running water. Had to go to the little house out back and bathe only once a week. I was born on that farm where my father grew up and remember not having electricity or running water and no inside plumbing. I was pretty young to remember the once a week bath though. I do remember a terrific ice storm before I was in school. Sounds like I'm pretty old, but actually I'm not that old....we just lived where things were a little backward. Dad sold the farm and we moved to just south of Los Angeles, California where it was "really" city. People from rural Lawrence County Missouri seemed to have moved around quite a bit and I see that as a problem in finding our ancestors. Pat BTW how may Pats are there on this board? [email protected] wrote: >And what fun times those were, with neighboring farmers gathering to help, >and dinner for all on the long table laden with the products of a long >morning's cooking by the housewife. > >Patricia > > >==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== >Looking for a town, postoffice, cemetery, creek, etc. >Try the mapping services at USGS GNIS. >http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >