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(By!DoroIt was Labor Day ...afterall labor means work and workI did and do. It was my duty tohead out to the back yard aridr - ■ •: 'do the bush trimming that was always done before by Equal Half. As I was working diligently I could just feel him say* ing, Look Lord, she’s trying to trim the shrubs! That*was always my job! And then the Lord replied, Let her try! You never know what you* can do until you try. And then, as myimagination kept working I*could just hear the two of them laughing together. Not at me, but with me as I wondered what I’d do if1 a yellow jacket nest wound up in my hair. Laugh if you want too, but it could happen! Haven’t I confessed to you about a real live bumble bee landing on my head and becoming tangled in my blondish hair. He became so entangled my Mom had to get the scissors and cut the rascal out. The miracle is that even though it did shut my screaming mouth for a time I really had something toscream about when it was*over. Well, what else could a mother do? Sooooo...the hair cut was rather weird, just so that oV bumble bee died in the process. (As a kid I didn't care about having the latest style in haircuts anyway.)During those childhood days I recall stepping on a dead yellow jacket and jumping around as if a fierce tiger had just crushed my foot. Mom had toonce again come to my aid and, •» . . . *remind riie that at least the- , \stinging critter was dead. It wasn't my nice cleanbare foot that did it either!■ »Oh what days they were, but I would never refer to them as the good oY days. Shoot no! Even though we did experience some fun times amidst thei 4working times it was so different in those days it ceases to be funny. Take wash day for instance, Mom kept something called Bluing that was a necessary part of that special day. It was also something thati* • •Mom grabbed to use when those yellow jackets were successful with their stingers. It was for the washing of clothes but also used for taking the sting out of a bite. (Just in case there are some readers of the younger generation out there, the bluing was used in the wash to keep white items white.. If ladies of the time didn’t use the bluing the clothes might come off the drying line rather yellowish.)I’ve been raking this long ago living over the coals for. some time and it was alright then but quite different now. For example, I knew that after Mom finished washing someone had to hang out the clothes. Mom had to do that job by herself after school started. Not only did she hang the clothes on the line buteverything had to be ironed.►When I say everything that means literally everything including Dad's boxer shorts, his handkerchiefs, the pillow cases, and some of the cup tow-els^ And-bless her heartj Momalways saved those easier items to iron for her girls.Well, I finally did finish the trimming in spite of the imagination running off to the wildsby itself.■Itess. 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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Lockhart Post Register
Lockhart, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 19, 2002
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