It was a much simpler life. I think it was much more enjoyable. For me, it was a much more enjoyable life. They have so much aimed at them now. They have so many things that they have to be aware of that we didn’t have to worry about. We worried about crops growing, we were close to the land and many children don’t have that opportunity now. Even those from town were more associated with farms than anything else in the small towns around here. Of course the bigger cities were different.

For fun we got together and played tag and used our sleds in the wintertime. We (Laughs), we even had a dirt slide that we used next to a bridge that at that time was on a road that curved - it’s straight now, they straightened it out – and we would slide down that. I am sure we were a mess by the end of the day but we just had so much fun sliding down that mud slide. It was dry of course. That was one of our big things!

I worked on the farm pulling weeds and milking cows, that sort of thing. Feeding the chickens, shelling the corn for the chickens in the old fashioned corn sheller, that sort of thing, but it was a healthful life. It really was. We ate very well, produced everything ourselves, we had our hogs, we had our own cattle, we had our own sheep later on. I’m trying to think…It seems so long ago now.

Our house was heated by stoves in each room where we wanted to be and the heat would go upstairs through a register. So it was pretty cold upstairs. Lots of blankets.

We didn’t have indoor plumbing until the 40s. The Second World War brought along a lot of improvements. Odd that it takes a war always to make big changes in our society. Have you ever noticed that? There are inventions, there are new medicines that are always accompanied by a war it seems, or most often.