Life in the Country

When I was a kid we walked one and a half mile to school each day. It wasn't so bad. When you're a kid you fall into a deep sleep and stay that way all night so when you got up you were  rested and full of energy. My family lived on a 365 acre farm. The adults got up at dawn and Dad went to the barn to milk the cows and Mom started a fire in the wood burning cooking range. Mom made biscuits every morning and I don't even know how to make a biscuit. We always had biscuits and gravy and ham or bacon and there was always plenty of homemade jam to eat on those biscuits. 
We didn't have electricity in the country area at that time. You can survive without it. Personal hygiene left a little something to be desired. I'll leave that to your imagination. Summer days kept my Mom busy at all times tending to a garden and canning everything that grew out of the earth. Her and a neighbor would take knives and a bucket and go to the creek banks and look for spinach that grew wild. It had a name but I can't remember what it was called.
Things begin to evolve, electricity came to the country. Tractors replaced horse teams. Ice was delivered for the Ice box. You could buy loaves of sliced bread at the grocery store so no more baking bread at home. When everything got easy they sold everything and moved to the city life.

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