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We sure would like to be out planting, but living in Colorado is a unique existence as we have had snow as late as May, guess we will wait awhile to plant. We have missed updating this web page. We are very technical and our computer decided to crash on us. Good news!! A White Knight came to our rescue from the City of Wheat Ridge and bought us a brand spanking new computer. Now I am trying to get use to this fancy new keyboard and figure out the new operating systems. Mark your calendars for the May Festival, May 12, second Saturday day, day before Mother's Day. Come enjoy a delicious lunch cooked on the old Wood Stove. Not sure of the price yet. If you play an instrument come join in the singing. If there is good weather we will have the May pole dance, a tradition. This is a wonderful outing for youngsters to come and enjoy old fashion festivities at the museum. We hope Eron Johnson can be here and appraise antiques that you just know are worth a fortune. Charlotte thought you may enjoy this poem sent to her via email; Remember making an apron in Home Ec? Remember Home Ec? If we have to explain "Home EC" you don't remember and it doesn't matter read on. THE HISTORY OF APRONS I don't think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few and because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons required less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls. In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time' that served so many purposes. REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw. They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron-but love... |
