Oh, yes, I remember when Mama had a wringer type washer and she used the wash tubs to rinse the clothes in. Mama told how when she was young, she had to do a lot of the family wash. She said she had been doing it for a long time (she used a scrub board back then) when Grandma told her one day not to starch her underwear or her brother's overalls. Mama said it made her so mad that Grandma would tell her this, so she made some extra thick starch (flour and water) and dipped Grandma's underwear and Mama's brother's overalls in the starch and hung them out to dry. When Grandma went to get her underwear off the line, they were so stiff they would stand alone. Mama said she was never told again how to wash clothes.
Mama also said she had to do a lot of the cooking and sometimes there would be a brother and his wife and kids living there with Grandma and Grandpa. She said she got tired of having to do so much cooking that she made some cornbread one day and put castor oil in it. she didn't tell anyone, and also she didn't eat any. She said, "guess who spent a lot of time in the outhouse that day"..everyone but her.
And speaking of outhouses and snakes. We were "uptown with our outhouse"....we had a two seater. One large one and one small one. I was in the outhouse one day when I was little and using the large one, when up came a snakes head out of the small hole. Talk about "skeedaddling", I did.
Also, Remember the black berry pickings, fishing and dog paddling in the creek that ran through our property.
Remember the Saturday night baths in the big ole wash tub in the kitchen.
I hd better shut up....rambled on enough. This has been fun to reminisce (spelling??)
Oh, the good ole days!!!