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Diana Sinclair
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quotePosted at 14:42 on 28th August 2009

I don't remember all of those but I do remember many. I also have fond memories of:

1. Pouring salted peanuts into a coke-a-cola bottle (glass) and drinking it.

2. Floating down the river on a tire tube.

3. Helping my grandmother wash clothes in the old style washer with the roller wringers to squeeze out the water and then hanging them on a clothes line in the sunshine to dry.

4. Riding the work horses bare back after they had finished their day plowing the fields.

5. Digging the toy out the Cracker-Jack box.

6. Using a bucket on a rope to draw the daily supply of water from a well everyday.

7. Out-houses! (I don't miss those...lol!)

I am sure I'll think of more! Laughing

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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 20:16 on 28th August 2009
Outhouses, Diana are you referring to the shed, or that other little place where the newspapers were cut into squares and threaded through a piece of string and hung on a nail lol ?????????
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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 20:28 on 28th August 2009

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Barbara Shoemaker
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quotePosted at 20:54 on 28th August 2009
On 28th August 2009 14:42, Diana Sinclair wrote:

I don't remember all of those but I do remember many. I also have fond memories of:

1. Pouring salted peanuts into a coke-a-cola bottle (glass) and drinking it.  Me too!

2. Floating down the river on a tire tube.

3. Helping my grandmother wash clothes in the old style washer with the roller wringers to squeeze out the water and then hanging them on a clothes line in the sunshine to dry.  I remember helping my mother do this!  We had metal trouser forms that went down inside the legs, and then we had to "sprinkle" or dampen everything and iron it.

4. Riding the work horses bare back after they had finished their day plowing the fields.

5. Digging the toy out the Cracker-Jack box.  Ditto.

6. Using a bucket on a rope to draw the daily supply of water from a well everyday.  My grandparents' well also had a big metal dipper that we used to get a drink of water as well.  The coldest, best water ever.

7. Out-houses! (I don't miss those...lol!)  I don't miss those either!

I am sure I'll think of more! Laughing


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