Old Memories
As we grow older, we remember when,
all vegetables and fruits were grown
at home with no bad additives.
Clothes were made at home from flour or feed sacks.
Mothers stayed home, and dads made the outside pay.
Mothers cooked, cleaned, and helped the with the hay.
Raised meat, vegetables and picked wild berries for food,
knowing that it all would be good.
Honey bee trees were found for honey,
and for this you did not need money.
Eggs and milk were sold or traded for groceries
you needed and could not raise, sugar, baking
soda, and salt.
We made our soap from hog lard and lye,
ground our corn for meal and bought our flour.
We churned cream for butter and fed the pigs,
for bacon and ham and we never went hungry.
We cut wood to cook and heat and cooked
our food on a wood stove to eat.
Water was carried from a running spring,
Fish were caught from a running stream.
Ducks and geese the winter would bring,
deer for meat in season, wild turkey to hunt
and lots of miracles to sing about in spring.
We had lots of flowers and Mom would sing,
and say "look at their beauty and forget being
tired or hungry for other things."
Copyright © Mattie Jacobs | Year Posted 2007
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