This should cover what I am trying to put across to you. Life in the 1920's and beyond wasn't always easy, but as you know, life is not easy now. If you just do the best you can you will be fine. I know you have lived a very different life than I have, but you still are having fun and have learned to work. I hope.

        As I have said before, when we lived on the farm we couldn't run to the store every time we needed something to eat. In the first place we had no money to do this so we got out and planted and got it from the garden or whatever. If we hadn' t raised our own food I am afraid 10 little ones and two parents would have starved. We either worked, planted and harvested or we wouldn' t have been able to eat.

        In the fall our father had to sell some steers so he could buy clothes for his 10 kids. Then he would sit down with us and make out an order to Sears And Roebuck or Montgomery Ward. The catalogs were our wish books. The boys got new pants and shoes, but Mother made their shirts. The girls had to just order material so our mother could make our dresses, slips and bloomers we needed. Besides that, she would order the flannel and cotten batting to make quilts for our beds. This was no small task, but after the first quilts were made we just covered them with new flannel each year. We ended up with some awfully heavy quilts, but we couldn't waste anything. What can you do with a quilt, but put new covers on it. Nothing was wasted!

        Our mattresses were made from ticking, which is a heavy, almost like canvas material. Then we took them out to the straw stack after the threshing was done and fill the big sacks with lots of new straw. We had to really stuff them full, because as the winter went on the straw would pack down and we ended up with a thin matresses.

        Well, this was a pioneer way of living, but we had a good life. In fact we have packed away a lot of good memories that will never die. So I hope my Recipes of my life will give you a few laughs and I hope you do enjoy them. You can relive the Good Old Days along with me.