Wash Day On The Mountain.

Here it is the first Saturday of February and as I sit in front of the computer and look out the window I see what could be a fabulous ice skating rink if our property was flat land. Even with the thermometer reading fifty degrees, this huge yard is a solid sheet of ice. It seems like months have passed since we had that ice storm that stretched across much of this country. We originally had an inch of ice on top of snow with more snow on top of the ice. The snow on top has melted and been replaced with more snow several times since the ice storm. The original ice still remains on our ground. I would guess that it is several inches thick by now though. What snow we have has a shine to it from the ice that covers it that would put most floor waxes to shame.

I am doing laundry this morning because I have put it off longer than I should have. It is now a "Must Do or Do Without" situation and so I am doing. To do without would be a really scarey sight. Since today is laundry day for me, I thought I would share with you "A Clothes Washing Recipe" that I found some years ago. I think I may have even posted it before. If I did it has been a long time ago. It deserves repeating though...........

Years ago an Arkansas grandmother gave the new bride the following recipe:

This is an exact copy as written and found in an old scrapbook - with spelling errors and all.

WASHING CLOTHES

Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.

Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.

Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water.

Sort things, make 3 piles

1 pile white,

1 pile colored,

1 pile work britches and rags.

To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin

down with boiling water.

Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil, then rub colored, don't boil just wrench and starch.

Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and starch.

Hang old rags on fence.

Spread tea towels on grass.

Pore wrench water in flower bed.

Scrub porch with hot soapy water.

Turn tubs upside down.

Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.

Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.

JD has a saying that goes something like this: "The good part of the Good Old Days is that they are gone!" I don't know about anyone else, but I for one am grateful for my modern day washer and dryer. Have a great weekend everyone.

Wash Day Blues

I got up yesterday morning and decided I would get a couple of loads of clothes washed before Greg arrived. With that bright idea, I sorted the clothes and got one load started and then off I went to make the bed and take my Byetta shot and grab something for breakfast. After a while I meandered my way back to the laundry room to put another load in the washer. As soon as I was within eye shot of the laundry room I stopped in my tracks. The laundry room floor had become a wading pool. It seems that the washers brain had come down with a bad case of senility and forgot to tell the washer when it was full and to stop running water.

After getting that mess mopped up, I thought no problem, I can manually turn the water on and off as it goes through its cycles. Well that didn't work either because it wasn't going to be agitating anything but my mood. I can't really complain though because we bought the washer and dryer used four years ago and paid just a little over $100 for both of them. So I would say we got far more than our money's worth out of it. I can see a new washer is in the future though.

Greg didn't make it in until this morning. Bless his heart, he got turned around in Kentucky and spent a lot more time there than he really wanted to, just trying to get going in the right direction. I know every time we go through Lexington, we usually miss our turn off either coming or going. So we know what he was going through. He ended up just spending the night there and starting out fresh this morning and that worked for him.
Britt and T~Bear are spending the night with us. Tersie had the opportunity to go to a comedy show in Columbus tonight and would be coming in late. Any time we can have these children with us, we jump at the chance. They stayed over with us last month and I had them up and at school well before time. I promised them that I wouldn't make them go to school before sunrise this time ...... lol


We decided on on Mother's Day what the menu would be for dinner tonight . I asked them if they would like Lasagna and T~Bear suggested Ravioli, we added a salad and garlic bread to that and we ended up with a good filling meal. The first batch of garlic bread I home cooked though and had to quickly do up another batch. There is a story in my home cooked meals that deserves a post all to itself.


Everyone has settled in the living room to watch a movie. I am so glad that Greg was able to come visit with us. J.D. has been missing his children and he is loving every minute that Greg is here. I remember how much I missed my children and grandchildren when we were in Louisiana.

I'll be closing this post for the night and will check in again when I can. Until then I wish you many blessings. ~Jo