Is It Shelled?
Dec 24, 2022 11:10:01 #
Is It Shelled?
For those who weren’t born during the depression of the 1930s you are to count yourselves fortunate. Even though I was just a small kid, those were hard times. I know my parents had to struggle. I remember before my sister was born, which was almost exactly four years after my birth, for a while we had a car. Then there was a period when we no longer had a car.
In the car we once had, I can remember riding up behind the back seat on a shelf next to the back window. This window was unique in that it had a window shade that could be pulled down if you wanted to cut out all the light and sleep.
If you are familiar with the years of the ‘dust bowl’ these events were happening almost simultaneously. I can recall several times when a dust storm would come and block out the light and it would be almost night. There was nothing you could do to prevent sand from entering the house. My mother would be sweeping and trying to keep all the dust out, she would put damp rages around the windows, and it would still penetrate the house.
I can remember playing on the floor in the kitchen and with my toy truck, empty shotgun shells and an empty Prince Albert tobacco can would be able to build roads and such on the linoleum floor.
We moved back to Bulcher sometime just before my sister Belva was born. Her being expected may have been the reason we moved back to Bulcher. No one ever told me. But things were still tough, and money and jobs were hard to come by. In our community there was a family who were particularly hard up. Their team of horses were nothing but skin and bones.
Another farmer in the neighborhood had seen the shape of this first farmer’s team and finally told the hard-up farmer to come by his farm and the second farmer would give him a wagon load of corn for his team. The farmer who was the beneficiary of the load of corn asked, “Is it shelled?” Can you imagine such a crass question? Just Sayin…RJS
For those who weren’t born during the depression of the 1930s you are to count yourselves fortunate. Even though I was just a small kid, those were hard times. I know my parents had to struggle. I remember before my sister was born, which was almost exactly four years after my birth, for a while we had a car. Then there was a period when we no longer had a car.
In the car we once had, I can remember riding up behind the back seat on a shelf next to the back window. This window was unique in that it had a window shade that could be pulled down if you wanted to cut out all the light and sleep.
If you are familiar with the years of the ‘dust bowl’ these events were happening almost simultaneously. I can recall several times when a dust storm would come and block out the light and it would be almost night. There was nothing you could do to prevent sand from entering the house. My mother would be sweeping and trying to keep all the dust out, she would put damp rages around the windows, and it would still penetrate the house.
I can remember playing on the floor in the kitchen and with my toy truck, empty shotgun shells and an empty Prince Albert tobacco can would be able to build roads and such on the linoleum floor.
We moved back to Bulcher sometime just before my sister Belva was born. Her being expected may have been the reason we moved back to Bulcher. No one ever told me. But things were still tough, and money and jobs were hard to come by. In our community there was a family who were particularly hard up. Their team of horses were nothing but skin and bones.
Another farmer in the neighborhood had seen the shape of this first farmer’s team and finally told the hard-up farmer to come by his farm and the second farmer would give him a wagon load of corn for his team. The farmer who was the beneficiary of the load of corn asked, “Is it shelled?” Can you imagine such a crass question? Just Sayin…RJS
Dec 24, 2022 11:20:25 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Is It Shelled? br For those who weren’t born durin... (show quote)
Some people are never happy, RJ. In that time period the offer was Extremely generous, and should have been accepted without question.
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