General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...For, Fri. Feb. 10, 2006, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Hello everyone. It's too windy to ride today and so I am cleaning house instead, not too enthusiastically I might add. As I was cleaning I was thinking of how women used to do a certain job on a certain day every week, back in the days when women didn't often work away from home. I had a neighbor who did that, Monday was washday, Tuesday was ironing, etc. She lived on a dariy farm and had 9 children who all helped in one way or another when they were old enough. The boys fed calves, collected eggs, went out to get the cows from the field at milking time, helped with the milking and other farm work, etc, and the girls helped in the house and garden. The Mrs made her own bread 2x a week, it took a lot of loaves for all of them, and she had 2 sets of clothes lines out in the yard. She also hung laundry under a long porch roof in rainy weather. When she had the last baby I asked her if she wasn't glad for a break (3 days in the hospital) but she said no, because now she was 3 days behind with all the housework. The oldest daughter was in my grade but never could take part in after school things because she had to get home to help her mother. The closest I ever got to the every job on a certain day system was a set of embroidered dish towels that I got for my wedding shower.

Sarv, is your stroke cousin in really bad shape now? Your comment about it being too bad somebody found him made me think that he may not recover. Where is he now, and what is the plan from now on?

Kittymom, did somebody sign for the letter? I can't emagine anybody signing for a letter and then just ignoring it knowing you would not be back for many days? Or was it the postal employee who didn't get a signature? It sounds like somebody didn't do their job or use common sense and I hope nobody needs that insurance until after the problem is solved. How's Mercky?

Tgif, your cardinals are very pretty. We don't have them out here. I have gold finches eating from a thistle seed feeder, and house finches and sparrows eating from a feeder with ordinary bird seed. Maybe next year I will try another feeder with suet to see what else comes to eat. Occasionally we get a small hawk who gets a tweety bird for his dinner, but I think more of them survive because I feed them.

This morning my kitty knocked a plant off the windowsill and the pot broke. Bad kitty! (somehow those two words don't go well together). We have 4 windows across the end of the dining room that look out at the bird feeders. I keep one windowsill cleared so the kitty can watch the birds, but she was in warp speed and got into the next window, probably ricochetted off it because she was running from one end of the house to the other over and over again. Not too long after that she went to sleep purring in my lap.

Back to the vacuum cleaner, and I see a window that needs attention, the one over the sink gets splatters on it that I don't notice until the sun is just right. But first, I need some of that bread pudding.