Oct 14, 2010

Did you have to do anything to earn it?

For the dime I had to do the dishes and other household chores. For the milk money I had to feed the cows, milk the cows, feed the chickens and gather and clean the eggs. I also had to help with the farm chores of irrigating, cutting, raking , baling, and hauling the hay that would feed the cows during the winter. We also had a lot of other chores that we would do depending on the seasons. For instance the late summer days were filled very full of picking, washing and processing the fruit. My job was more as well because I had to bring the bottles in from the grainery where we stored the bottles, remove the black widow spiders that made their home in the bottles, wash the bottles and prepare them for having the fruit added to them. I also was the one to sort through the storage room and remove old fruit and empty and clean those bottles as well. Then I would put the new fruit away in the storage room. I had plenty to do to earn any allowance.