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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (216647)	7/21/2012 4:01:03 PM
From: KLP	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

The book I'm planning on writing for the family, will talk about some of my experiences as a kid while watching the ladies and the work they had to do, and compare how easy my own life has been in comparison. Each age has its challenges, and while we today, have many that our ancestors didn't have --the wildness of not only the media, the movies, TV, video games, etc versus the actual chores and responsibilities the kids had in the yesteryear timeframe.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (216647)	7/21/2012 4:13:44 PM
From: KLP	2 Recommendations Respond to of 225578

As a kid, it was the most wonderful experience! Feather beds and starched sheets......only later I realized the time, toil and trouble it took to deal with sheets that needed to be washed, hung on the lines to dry, ironed and staratched.....No spray cans of starch, but actual boiled starch. For instance. They killed their own chickens, dressed them, and we usually had the most wonderful chicken dinners on Sundays. They grew most of their own veggies, and also berries of all kinds, apricots, apples, peaches.... I grew to really like Elk meat, until I really realized how beautiful Elk and Deer really were....I NEVER again liked lamb (to this day) after we raised Lamie as a baby, fed him with a baby bottle, and one day came to visit and Lamie was to be dinner one day in the future.....OH NO.....not for me. We ran, and played all day, and our folks really didn't worry about us....unless one of us got hurt. I was "Helping" my Granddad feed the cows, by being on top of a haystack (that he had told me not to do) BUT I wanted to HELP him....then I looked down, and my Mary Janes and Yellow socks were really a mess....blood everywhere....I had stuck a pitch fork in my foot.....THAT caused a good deal of excitement, because the nearest Doc was many miles away.....and not easy to get to.....I didn't disobey my Granddad again.....and he never said a word, except he told me he was sorry I was feeling the pain..... I loved the entire experience, but really, decided I was really a city chick when I grew up. I LOVE having access to the Library, the Museums, the Art Galleries, etc....even if we don't access them all of the time...but at least we don't have to go far to do that. But when we were younger with the kids, we did a lot of Tent Camping, and enjoyed the time....well, most of the time, except when they were little, and wanted to go play in the mud in the rain..... Made me realize again how much easier we have it today with even the little things like the laundry .....