Yea, yea Pegg. And I walked to school 20 miles every day. Up hill
both ways! In the snow!


Doug

"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
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WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:04:09 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:


Agreed! There would be no electricity between Macon and Albany GA if it
were not for the co-ops.


Yup and no freezers on the front porch.

Or clothes washers on the back porch.

My grandparents' farm in the middle of nowhere Alabama didn't have
electricity until TVA finally ran lines sometime after my mother
graduated from high school in 1934. It was the 50's before they had a
phone. They've both been gone a long time, and the farm was sold years
ago...but I don't THINK there's any cable TV there yet.

When I was a little girl Grandma had a washer, but didn't have a water
heater or a dryer. So water was heated over a wood fire in a big cast
iron pot, ladled into buckets and carried to the washer--on the back
porch, which made laundry considerably more of a challenge than it is
today 'cuz water had to be carried for both the wash and rinse cycles.
But that was a lot easier than doing the laundry in the cast iron
pot...which is what she had to do before TVA made it possible to buy the
washer.

And we think we have something to complain about if a storm takes out
the power for a couple of days!


Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

Oh...phhhbbbttt!

Doug Dotson wrote:
Yea, yea Pegg. And I walked to school 20 miles every day. Up hill
both ways! In the snow!


Doug

"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
...


WaIIy wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:04:09 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:



Agreed! There would be no electricity between Macon and Albany GA if it
were not for the co-ops.


Yup and no freezers on the front porch.

Or clothes washers on the back porch.

My grandparents' farm in the middle of nowhere Alabama didn't have
electricity until TVA finally ran lines sometime after my mother
graduated from high school in 1934. It was the 50's before they had a
phone. They've both been gone a long time, and the farm was sold years
ago...but I don't THINK there's any cable TV there yet.

When I was a little girl Grandma had a washer, but didn't have a water
heater or a dryer. So water was heated over a wood fire in a big cast
iron pot, ladled into buckets and carried to the washer--on the back
porch, which made laundry considerably more of a challenge than it is
today 'cuz water had to be carried for both the wash and rinse cycles.
But that was a lot easier than doing the laundry in the cast iron
pot...which is what she had to do before TVA made it possible to buy the
washer.

And we think we have something to complain about if a storm takes out
the power for a couple of days!


Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html






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Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html