[AT] Off Topic: Grandma's apron

Mike Sloane mikesloane at verizon.net
Fri Feb 25 10:13:50 PST 2005


The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress
underneath, but along with that, it served as a holder 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.

REMEMBER THIS!  "Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the
window sill to cool. Her granddaughter's set theirs on the window
sill to thaw."


-- 
Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
mikesloane at verizon.net
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so
heinous that the public will not forgive it. -Tom Robbins, writer (1936-)


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