| Several
generations sometimes lived on the farms at the same time. Often
homes of equal size were built next to each other and chores
were shared among parents, children and grand-children. Barns
were built big enough for all until extra money could be saved
to fund a new build; but in the early 1900s there was precious
little extra. Families kept company with each other, the Sunday
service and monthly Grange meeting may have been the highlights
of their social calendar, shadowed only by the occasional
wedding, birth or funeral. |
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Children learned that the live stock were not pets and that cats
and dogs had their chores on the farm as well.
Only the occasional eccentric Auntie might get away with
making a pet out of the prize rooster. |
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Boys learned to farm, to use
their rifles and to hunt with bow and arrow at a very tender
age; while the girls occupied their time with cooking, canning
meats and vegetables for winter, sewing and the more
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gentle farm
chores like
feeding live stock and cleaning out the barns; while attempting
to save time for their herb & flower gardens. |
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If
you look closely in the windows of this barn, you will see two
flags crossed in each; and if we look closely into our windows today we will see our
flag displayed with pride and in honor of our soldiers serving
here and abroad. |
