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I probably shouldn't even be posting here. You are all too young for me. Married 55 years!! Remember my grandfather being hired by the town to break out the roads after a snowstorm. He would hook up his team to a giant roller and go up and down the road packing down the snow so a car could travel over it and then earn money hauling them out when they got stuck.

Milk came from grampas, unpastuerized, in a tin can.

Went to school in a one-room school. School started promptly at 8 A.M. and got out when the teacher got through with the lessons. Thank goodness there was no electricity or we would probably have been there half the night. Heat was furnished with a wood stove. The teacher would keep a tub of water on the stove and we could bring jars of home-made soup and heat it in the pan. (canned soup was just for the rich)

Grampa cut his own ice from the river in hugh chunks and packed it in sawdust. It lasted the whole summer in his ice-house. How us kids loved to sneak a chunk out of the ice-house on a hot summer day.

I still don't lock doors. Don't have any keys if I wanted to lock up. Hubby says if someone wants to get in they will, and do a lot more damage if the doors are locked.

No, I don't want to go back. Just bought a new computer and paid what would have been a years salary for it back then.