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farmgrlchick
True Blue Farmgirl
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Theresa
Columbus
Montana
USA
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 Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 07:37:12 AM
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Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping.
By Miriam Lukken
What a fabulous book! If you enjoy timeless wisdom and practical advice. Found: Barnes and Noble, bargain section, 6 dollars plus change. Amazon~ 22.00 plus shipping.
Poem in the back of the book:
Mama's Mama on a winter's Day,
Milked the cows and fed them hay,
Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule,
And got the children off to school.
Did the washing, mopped the floors,
Washed the windows and did some chores.
Cooked a dish of home dried fruit,
Pressed her husband's Sunday suit,
Swept the parlor, made the bed,
Baked a dozen loaves of bread.
Split some wood and lugged it in,
Enough to full the kitchen bin,
Cleaned the lamps and put in oil,
Stewed some apples she thought might spoil,
Churned the butter baked a cake,
THen exclaimed, "for mercy's sake,
the cow have got out of the pen!"
Went out and chased them in agian,
Gathered the eggs and locked the stable,
Returned to the house and set the table,
Cooked a supper that was delicious,
And afterwards washed all the dishes,
fed the cat, sprinkeled the clothes,
Mended a basket full of hose,
Then opened the organ and began to play,
"When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day."
- Anonymous
Theresa
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Edited by - farmgrlchick on Jun 07 2006 07:39:09 AM |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 07:44:00 AM
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Theresa- I love Mrs. Dunwoody's!! I got mine at B&N also and then went back and picked one up for my sister. It has such fabulous little tidbits in it for anything you can think of for homekeeping.
I love how it hearkens back to a simpler time.
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 11:01:12 AM
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looks like a really cute book, I ordered one, used for 5.39. Lets see, that would be six books I have comming now, I have to stop for a while and catch up.
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2006 : 2:32:08 PM
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Nancy- You crack me up!! Everytime a book is mentioned -you order it! Yikes, if that were me , I'd be reading from now until the NEXT millenium!! Where do you find your time- I apparently have a lot to learn from you about organization skills. You go girl!!
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