Thinking...

I get this Magazine called "Reminisce" every month, well actually Reminisce one month and Reminisce Extra the next. It was so filled this time with things of the past. Things that they are calling "things of the past!" To me it seems like pretty modern things. They showed on the front of the magazine a picture of what an older home would look like. On the table were, for instance, a peeler which I guess they were going to use to peel some apples for a pie since there was a pie crust rolled out and one pie pan already filled with a crust! I noticed a measuring cup, and a gadget that was used to mix together the lard, flour, salt,etc before adding a little water to hold the whole thing together. On a stove were big pots, a bread pan with a loaf of bread, etc. Got me to thinking how, when I was growing up we used a plain coffee cup for the measuring cup, a regular paring knife to peel the apples, and we kneaded the flour, Lard, etc. with our hands! This was great for your hands too. The lard kept them nice and soft! On the ironing board in the kitchen was an iron which was heated somehow but when I was growing up we had flatirons that sat on the back of a wood stove all the time. They were always ready to use, I guess. When one did the ironing we had a clamp-handle kind of thing that fir onto the irons. When the iron got too cool you put it back on the stove and "picked" up another one!!! And the stove in the picture was a gas stove! My, how things have changed! A heck of a lot of things, for the better, but in some ways, the "good old days" were good! People cared for one another and there wasn't so much "me" and "I". I didn't have to have everything to make "Me" happy and content! Enough of the Grandma stuff for today!