“Because of rationing I had a new way of life. I made lye soap to wash baby clothes, picked wild greens, canned all garden vegetables and fruit, helped raise broilers [chickens] and milk 29 cows by hand. We butchered our own meat, also caught fish and had frog legs.” --Marjorie Marzolf, Salina, Kansas
Did I mention that I've sworn to whine a whole lot less during canning season??????
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Oh my, those poor women back then. All the hard work and not even a blog to vent.
Joking aside - I do have the deepest respect for them. How in the world did they cope? As for the frog legs, I'll just pretend I haven't read that part. ;-)
So - when are you buying your first cow to milk?
This sounds like a lot of what your grancma did.
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