I remember riding(yes riding) Jack the dog( large large dog!!) down to the back pasture with my grandpa. We brought up the cows and he milked them I remember him trying to teach me to milk but my hands were too small to get the rhythm. I remember helping my grandma seperate the cream from the milk.
I remember making popcorn balls with my grandma in her canning kitchen in the basement while Grandpa watched tv in the next room in the basement.They didn't have a tv upstairs. Downstairs(basement) was a canning kitchen a store room for all the canned stuff and a long room that had a ping pong table on one end and a tv area on the other. This was the only place my grandma allowed any mess. Upstairs had to be kept spotless at all times. Woe betide anyone who touched the white walls! LOL
She cooked big dinners in this kitchen, They had 14 kids so my mom's family is a big one. Food was very much the center of the family life on a farm!!