November 21, 2005

• Three Little Thankfuls

  First off, I am thankful for music.  Music is a large part of my
  life.  I walk around singing or humming all day.  I wish I
  could say that I was thankful for a beautiful singing voice but… eh..
  well, you can’t have everything!

  Next, I am thankful for modern day heating.  When I was young, we
  had a coal furnace.  It was a pain to keep up with.  First,
  you had to go get the coal or have it hauled to your home.  Then
  unload it into the basement.  Then every morning before the
  household awakened, my Dad would get the fire started.  By the
  time we all woke up, the house was nice and toasty.  But it had to
  be tended at intervals during the day or it would go out.  “Throw
  another log on the fire,” was a frequent refrain.  Speaking of
  logs, we could also burn logs in our furnace so there was the cutting,
  curing and stacking to get a winters supply.  We also were able to
  burn a lot of the household trash. When i was about ten, they drilled
  an oil well on our farm, and we were able to heat with free gas! 
  It didn’t take Dad long to change over! and the heat was so much
  cleaner!  No longer was there a layer of soot on everything.

  Third, I am thankful for dishwashers.  There were eight of us kids
  but only two of us were girls that were old enough to do dishes. 
  Now, my parents weren’t sexists, just farmers.  The boys did the
  outside chores and the girls helped with the housekeeping.  In
  fact, my mother was ahead of her time and insisted the boys know how to
  cook.  (It’s a good thing, too.  They have all had long bouts
  of bachelorhood.) To get back on the subject, dishes were the bane of
  my existence. My oldest sister washed and I always had to dry the darn
  things.  I hated the silverware. 
  When I married, we did not have a dishwasher for the first couple of
  years.  As my weight increased it hurt my back too much to stand
  at the sink and do the dishes so my husband bought me a dishwasher and
  I fell just that much more in love with the man.

  So, there you have it.  my three little thankfuls.  And all three play a huge part in our Thanksgiving celebration.

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