Styles Have Changed!!

My Grandma Ford

The picture above is of my Grandma Ford. It was taken in the '40's when she was in her 60's. The picture is so typical of my Grandma as well as other ladies who went into town to shop in those days. They always wore their best outfit along with nice slippers and hat. The same was true of my own Mother. She always dressed up to go to town and usually wore a hat. Have times and customs changed or what??? Comfort is the norm these days. Forget about the style and being dressed nicely. I still think it might be worth while if we took more pride in how we look even though it may mean making a little more effort to do so. In many ways we have become lazy and complacent. I wonder how many would like to go back to the slower life without the many conveniences we now take for granted. For years we had no electricity, we drew the water from the well, heated it and washed our clothes on a rub board, hung them on the clothes line to dry, brought them in, sprinkled them and packed them into a basket then spent the next day ironing everything we wore. Many, in fact most things, were starched and ironing was not an easy task especially in the Summer time when we had to have a fire in the stove to heat our iron. Remember we had no electricity, therefore we had no fan so the job was very difficult and tiring because of the heat. Oh, the memories!!!! I cherish them even though I do not want to go back to those days.

We had a real nice rain last night and this morning. Our garden is looking good and we will soon have green beans and ripe tomatoes to eat. We will like that.

Take care, all,
Dortha