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Image result for A Very Old Farmhouse's Kitchen We did have a gas stove and electric refrigerator.

Momma's Kitchen

So small about 9x9 feet
No running water, easy to keep neat
The churn set next to the chimney
There was I, anger within me

Come butter come, isn't this fun
I don't like doing this
When will it get done
Finally dipping out tasty yellow

Yellow butter to butter biscuits
We could not afford toast
Definitely not Triscuits
Sometimes pork roast

Life was hard and mostly lonely
It helped me to make it in life though
If I had known how life would flow, if only
In understanding I could grow

Up there on the large old farm
When I was so very young
Where life could be a charm
But there my childhood was hung

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Marilene Evans

Date: 1/11/2024 1:34:00 PM

Congratulations, Sara. Beautifully written. I love to look back how we all got started... including difficult, mundane tasks we had to do. I didn't live in a farm, I lived in a small town and a warm house. However, our stove is outside and you do have to start the fire with a paper and a match to light up the fire woods that get so smokey and found myself, gagging with the smoke and crying and cursing....lol

Joseph May

Date: 1/11/2024 8:52:00 AM

Farm life is hard work but well worth it, Very nicely penned Sara, Congrats on your win

Sara Kendrick
Date: 1/11/2024 11:46:00 AM

Joseph, Yes, life on the farm was hard and money was slim, but we got by. Thanks for the visit with congrats. Sara K

Howard Kerr

Date: 1/11/2024 7:19:00 AM

A divine piece with excellent flow between each and every line. This seamless mesh is maintained in a very philosophical work about those critical formative years. Congratulations, Sara, on your well deserved placement, Many thanks for your encouraging words on Golden Gust Glow Howard

Sara Kendrick
Date: 1/11/2024 11:45:00 AM

Your visit with congrats on my placement in the contest is appreciated, Howard. Thank you, Sara K

Silent One

Date: 1/10/2024 11:54:00 AM

I remember this lovely poem.. Congratulations on your placement in the contest..

Sara Kendrick
Date: 1/10/2024 1:23:00 PM

Thank you, SO, for letting me know I placed in a contest. Sara K

The Situation

Date: 1/2/2024 5:31:00 PM

I share this old stuff with you. I'm not a city boy. My grandmother churned EVERYDAY. I drank water from a pump. And rode the Gas tank like it was a horse.

Sara Kendrick
Date: 1/3/2024 3:13:00 AM

TS, Yes, there were degrees of not having anything even then. We had to draw water out of the well with a bucket instead of having the hand pump or windmill. We did have the gas stove and the refrigerator, but I think at first, we had to buy ice and put a chunk in the freezer section and one in the refrigerator until we could get a wall socket in the kitchen. Yes, those gas tanks were used for imaginative play but very dangerous. Thanks for dropping by with your understanding. Sara K

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 1/2/2024 11:49:00 AM

I enjoyed your lovely write/story/picture. Have a great day writing away..........

Sara Kendrick
Date: 1/2/2024 1:51:00 PM

Thank you, Paula. I had some thoughts going on but life happened and they were away. Your visits are encouraging. Sara K

Silent One

Date: 1/2/2024 11:00:00 AM

Oh i can see you did not enjoy this task.. but such lovely memories with your mum... thankfully life has got easier for you..

Sara Kendrick
Date: 1/2/2024 1:50:00 PM

SO, Yes, life did get easier. We only lived there four years then we went to a smaller farm, but different tasks went with it. Thanks for the visit. Sara K