Re: Lucky to grow up on a farm

Posted by JerryS on December 08, 2011 at 11:36:27 from (98.80.97.168):

In Reply to: Lucky to grow up on a farm posted by IA Leo on December 08, 2011 at 07:30:50:

I can relate to just about everything that's already been said---the hog-killing, chopping corn, picking cotton, going barefoot eight months of the year,finding all the plum thickets, berry patches, grape and muskedine vines, chinquapin and hickory-nut trees in the area.

The big community social events were hog killings (all our neighbors would come to help, and we them) and pond-seignings (giant community fish-fry everytime this happened). On a smaller scale, when friends or relatives would drop by to help with the pea or butterbean shelling. Sitting out on the front porch in the dusk, shelling and listening to the grownups talk, is a memory that cannot be taken from me.

Much of my recollection is based upon smells: even the things that smelled bad were proper in their place---the chicken yard, the cow pen, the outhouse. Remember what a box of biddies smelled like? We used to get ours in the mail---square box with holes all around. I remember the smell of dried peanuts on the vine in the barn as I twisted them off. I remember the winey smell of sorgham silage in the trench silo my dad experimented with. I remember the smell of chlorine from water we used for everything in the dairy---and that stayed, to my embarrassment, on my hands and arms when I went to school. (I probably smelled "cow-ish" as well, after shoving the bossies around in the dairy each morning. Also, I have been guilty of rousting a sleeping cow on a frosty pre-dawn morning, sending her on her way to the barn, then lying down in her warm spot to catch a few more precious winks.)

Yes, we are all products of these memories. If all of our fellow citizens had something this solid to reflect back on we would be a much, much better nation.

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