Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Hey, did you live with us way back in the hills during the depression? Sounds like it.
And you had to have two irons, one getting warm on the wood stove while you rubbed the hot one on a cloth to see that it wasn't dirty from the wood stove, then ironed like mad till it cooled off. Then on the stove it went and, if you didn't have a solid iron, you took the handle off it and stuck it in the now hot one! No wonder they called them Sad irons!!
I can hardly wait for the next installment. Really does hit my memory button and turn it on.
My memory is fuzzy on that cleaning part, I think the irons rested on trivets while they heated on the stove. Granny had stacks of butcher paper which she used to slick up the irons. They had several irons going so that my grandmother and aunt could iron at the same time - at least two irons each heating at the same time. It really didn't seem like a time warp for me because that was the way it always was. In New Orleans, I had all the modern conveniences of indoor plumbing, washer and dryer, and electric irons.