Jan 19, 2011

Was there a chore you hated doing as a child?

OK let's face it and rephrase it. Was there a chore I didn't hate to do as a child? Much easier to answer this one since it can be stated with two letters "NO". I hated washing or drying dishes, setting or clearing off the table, vacuuming, cleaning my room, washing the clothes on saturday, making my bed in order to go to sleep on saturday night (well Sunday morning technically), mowing the lawn, milking, feeding the cows, slopping the pigs, feeding the calves with a bottle of milk, cutting, raking, baling, and hauling the hay, irrigating, planting, weeding and harvesting the garden, picking the fruit and canning it also, cleaning the fruit room so there could be room for the new fruit, putting the empty jars in the grainery, getting the empty jars out of the grainery, cleaning the black widow spiders out of the jars, washing the jars, peeling the fruit, cooking and processing the fruit, bottling the fruit and putting it away after labeling it. Actually I really didn't hate it that bad now as I look back on it but I am sure that I complained about it plenty to mom since none of my friends in town had that much work to do. I didn't complain about the other ones who lived on farms as most of them did since I knew they also had plenty of chores as well. Life really was quite OK on the farm as long as we could cool off in the canal in the afternoon or late evening when the water always seemed to be a lot warmer.