tennhound
Fri Mar 10, 2006, 03:18 AM
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect
the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot
pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on
occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying
eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding
places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it
around her arms! .
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow,
bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen
in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been
shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was
surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the
porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to
dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents
something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
Send this to those who would know, and love the story
about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the
window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the
window sill to thaw.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect
the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot
pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on
occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying
eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding
places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it
around her arms! .
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow,
bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen
in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been
shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was
surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the
porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to
dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents
something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
Send this to those who would know, and love the story
about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the
window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the
window sill to thaw.