Vee- I must be much older than you, Don't tell. My mother's wash day was a little bit different. Take the baby to the back yard and sit her in a box, since her hands are wet from having them in her mouth give her a soft chicken feather to play with. She will spend the next hour trying to turn lose of it. <G>Make a fire under the big wash pot and draw water from the will to fill it. Disolve some Lye soap in the water. When it comes to a boil add the white clothes and let them boil for awhile. Take some of the boiling water into a wash tub and scrub the colored clothes on the wash board with more lye soap. Rinse them and hang them then take a big stick and pull out the white clothes, scrub them on the wash board , rinse them and hang them. Be sure you wring everything good so it don't take longer for them to dry. Before you hang anything that has to be starched you dip it into the starch that has also been disolved in boiling water. Use that stick to stir stuff around and pull it out of the hot solution. Take some of the wash water in a bucket to the house and use it and the scrub brush on the floors. Draw fresh water to rinse the floor. After the soapy water has cooled add the garbage from last nights supper to it along with some shelled corn and slop the hogs. If the baby has turned over the box she was sitting in and has been playing in the dirt, use the warm rinse water to give her a bath. Use the rest of the water to water the flowers around the back door. Waste Not Want Not---sorry this is long-I shouldn't remember stuff after midnight.....Mary Russell bird@scrtc.blue.net tomrussell@mindless.com Glasgow Kentucky