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<blockquote data-quote="hurleyjd" data-source="post: 1086361" data-attributes="member: 4674"><p>I read through all of the living experiences you folks have had. I will share some of mine. We moved to the family farm when I was six. Deal was $500 an have to keep my Grandmother for the rest of her life. There was 13 kids and 5 step kids in my dads family. My mother was the only one my Grandmother could get along with. Living conditions about the same as yours. Once a month to town to sell eggs and cull chickens. My mother always had chickens, laying mash sacks were prints. My mother washed and ironed them and the women in the community would buy them to make dresses. You might see the women in church with a sack dress that had the mash in it a week before. One winter day about 1947 cold snow and sleet on the ground, the mail carrier came and tooted the horn on his jeep. I ran out to see what he wanted. He needed to talk to my mother. She came out and was told that he had 500 baby chicks that someone had ordered from Sears and Roebuck and the ones who ordered them turned them down and he could not send them back. My mother took them and we stacked the crates in the living room until my mother and father could get the brooder house ready. My mother raised most of them. They were all roosters. We ended up killing and dressing them and dad peddled them out to the oil camps around the area. Each oil camp was a small village built by the oil companies to house the employees and families. No insulted clothing at the time and cold as all get out. Makes me shiver to think about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hurleyjd, post: 1086361, member: 4674"] I read through all of the living experiences you folks have had. I will share some of mine. We moved to the family farm when I was six. Deal was $500 an have to keep my Grandmother for the rest of her life. There was 13 kids and 5 step kids in my dads family. My mother was the only one my Grandmother could get along with. Living conditions about the same as yours. Once a month to town to sell eggs and cull chickens. My mother always had chickens, laying mash sacks were prints. My mother washed and ironed them and the women in the community would buy them to make dresses. You might see the women in church with a sack dress that had the mash in it a week before. One winter day about 1947 cold snow and sleet on the ground, the mail carrier came and tooted the horn on his jeep. I ran out to see what he wanted. He needed to talk to my mother. She came out and was told that he had 500 baby chicks that someone had ordered from Sears and Roebuck and the ones who ordered them turned them down and he could not send them back. My mother took them and we stacked the crates in the living room until my mother and father could get the brooder house ready. My mother raised most of them. They were all roosters. We ended up killing and dressing them and dad peddled them out to the oil camps around the area. Each oil camp was a small village built by the oil companies to house the employees and families. No insulted clothing at the time and cold as all get out. Makes me shiver to think about it. [/QUOTE]
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