Rick, We too had the same bath tub and coal buckets at Holden. My children are clueless to hard times. But I guess I am too compared to my parents days. Judi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stewart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:44 AM Subject: [WVLOGAN] Shelby Hello - I am enjoying your stories too. I was born in 1944 and remember having no running water at the homeplace and the big tin bathtub filled with water heated on a coal stove. Also, the house was heated with coal that had to be carried in those wide mouth buckets. The outhouse was my main memory of those days. One time a long blacksnake fell at Grama Mullin's feet when she went to the privy. I have always been very afraid of snakes. I started going off into the woods to do my "business". Mom and my uncle Troy caught me and forced me to go to the outhouse while they stood guard. I got over my fear of the outhouse. Cousin Rick ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message