It is tales like these that make our genealogy books come to life--every day people doing every day chores but that was life and all of us at one time or another wish for "the good old days." I did not grow up on a farm but had friends that did, and I enjoyed the barn (not the smell) and loved to watch them milk and squirt milk at the barn cats and kittens, and then fill their bowls. It was a simpler life--. We may have gotten older but I don't think we've gotten any better. Dorothy