It's been awhile.....

Sorry that I haven't been on my job of "blogging! So much has been going on I just haven't felt "up to it"! Was talking to my friend Rose today and while talking to her started to remember a few things about the good old days! They were, I know now, really the good old days!! Even if we did go through a Depression and all, or as some people say "the GREAT DEPRESSION". Things were much calmer then it seemed to me and I think it had a lot to do with the fact that families were "closer"! When it was mealtime, for instance, we ate together and then instead of getting up from the table and dashing off to God knows where, we stayed at home, played games, talked, read, or in most cases, the first thing we did was help with the dishes. No dishwashers, (Oh I shouldn't say that! As my son Dick recently pointed out, at one time, I had three "dishwashers") I also remember doing dishes myself when I was small enough to have to stand on a chair at the sink to do them! I didn't say I enjoyed it, but here at almost 90, I still do my dishes at the sink but I stand at the sink and not on a chair. My Mother was ill one time and my Father cooked all the meals, which we really enjoyed! He used a lot of the good old fats like Lard and real butter, etc. He made the best fried potatoes I have ever eaten and I consider myself a good cook! But after dinner, he would bring in a chair and up to the sink we would go and he would sit down and make sure we did the dishes to his liking! So, when I found out that Cappy was a better cook than I was, I "LET" him do the cooking whenever he wanted. But he told me flat out that he did "NOT" do dishes! So clever as I was, I had to train the boys to do the dishes!! My sister Barbara said to me one day, "I hate to dust! That's all I did when I was growing up at home!" I told her she should have said something, I would gladly have "dusted" if she had done the dishes!! It's not really that much of a chore and I kind of miss the big sinkful of dishes after having company and standing there and quietly go over the days events in my mind. It was kind of soothing! OOH YEAH!!!!!!! Goodnight.