God bless him! I don’t have a suggestion but this is when we pull out skills learned by our older generations and do some “outside the box” thinking. I have considered myself fortunate to have been raised by grandparents who married in 1932. Used to love hearing their stories of how they coped with the adversities during the 30’s and 40’s. If any people in the USA can come up with alternative ideas it’s us FreeQs. Somehow, your grandson, TX Bubba’s kids and the rest will be honored in these milestones of life. Saying that as a prayer that the Lord gives the ideas and wisdom.
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Thank you! You are right - my mom was born in 1930 and she has told me stories of that time. A very resourceful generation.
I agree: we folks whose parents survived the Great Depression were inculcated with attitudes and endowed with survival skills that should carry us through this crisis in fine shape.
During the Great Depression, my Father worked as a "roughneck" in the oil fields, and they moved frequently -- following the latest "oil play". Whenever they arrived at a new site, Dad put up a tent with wooden walls, and Mom planted a garden and started canning:
They never went hungry, and did fairly well, financially: that's a new 5-window 1934 Ford V8 Coupe - "with rumble seat". (In that condition, that car would be worth a mint, nowadays...)
Yep, we "depression babies" have a lot going for us! '-)
TXnMA
