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Subject: Fw: [HantsLife] Grandma's Aprons
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:23:36 GMT


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Aprons

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath,
but along with that, it served as a potholder 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 Autumn, 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 stood by the door and waved her apron,
everyone knew it was time to come in 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 Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to
cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw....

~Unknown~


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