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From: Toots <>
Subject: Out door plumbing
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:48:52 -0400

Hi Mary
I sure know about the outdoor plumbing and when my Mom died in 1974
there still wasn't water in the house. I tell anyone who asks me about
camping that I camped for 18 years and I have no desire to go back to
primitive living. So I guess I am above my raising since I have running
water and one bathroom in my home.

I grew up in Ohio and back then the winters could be either snow or
ice. For a long time we didn't have a well at home and we filled up
milk cans at a community pump and put them in a car and got them home.
I can still remember pumping and pumping water.

With all of this my Mom still took in some washings so all water had to
be pumped and heated. After a while electric heaters could be put in
the washer but never the less the water for the washing had to be
carried and put there. We did get a well and a pump but the faucet was
on the side of the garage so you still carried water.

You know Mary in so many ways we had more than the kids of today even
though I know I was poor. When I was young I didn't think of being poor
but I was raised at a lake so swimming and ice skating was free. I took
my daughter-in-law to where I was raised and she gave me a whole new way
of looking at it. She said, Mom you said you were poor and here you
lived where everyone else paid to come........out of mouths of
babes........

Tootsie in Michigan

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