> On Mar 28, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Ingrid Kjønnøy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Budeie - woman who milked cows. This was never a man's job until the milk machines were introduced. Never. Fact. Our family has a story that our German-born gg grandfather was so set on the fact that milking cows was women’s work that he brought the cow inside the house for his wife to milk it from her sick bed. The truth of that is questionable, but yes, milking cows was definitely not man’s work. :-)

Fascinating! If the cow urinated or defecated in the house while being there for his wife to milk from her sickbed, who cleaned up after the cow? :-D Bev On 3/28/2017 3:55 PM, Lenise Cook wrote: > On Mar 28, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Ingrid Kjønnøy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Budeie - woman who milked cows. This was never a man's job until the milk machines were introduced. Never. Fact. Our family has a story that our German-born gg grandfather was so set on the fact that milking cows was women’s work that he brought the cow inside the house for his wife to milk it from her sick bed. The truth of that is questionable, but yes, milking cows was definitely not man’s work. :-)