Chuckle 4169

Chuckle 552 (sent out in Jan 2005)

(Mary in Los Osos CA gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~APRONS: Bring back memories~ (Plus: Today in history, Word for the day, Today’s horoscope, Maxine and 6 Diff’s)

(A little history about grandma and her apron.)

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.

Send this to those who would know, and love, the story about Grandma's aprons.

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, that is if its not frozen shut for the Central Air."

(Today in History Click)
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Maxine

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