Thanks so much for sharing "Grandma's Apron. I miss Jan's Sunday Afternoon Rocking on the Front Porch series................so it was so nice to receive this piece on Sunday. Since we own a bed & Breakfast in Georgia, we are full of Florida folks fleeing Frances...........I am using my apron a lot to comfort, cook and dust..........keep them all in your prayers. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "roe lane" <roeb@compu.net> To: <TNSTEWAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 10:59 AM Subject: [TNSTEWAR] Grandma's Apron > > Received on Internet, Author Unknown: > > Grandma's Apron > > The principle of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, > but along with that, it served as a holder for removing hot pans from the > oven; It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even > used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be > finished in the warming oven. > > When company came those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids; > and when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms. > Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood > stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. > >From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been > shelled it carried out the hulls. In the fall the apron was used to bring in > apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the > road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a > matter of seconds. > > When Dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, > and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. > It will be a long time befor someone invents something that will replace > that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes. > > REMEMBER THIS! > "Grandma use to set her hot baked apple pies on th window sill to cool.. > Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.. > -- > A Compu-Net Enterprises Customer: http://www.compu.net/ > > > ==== TNSTEWAR Mailing List ==== > Stewart Co. Genealogy home: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/index.htm > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ >