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Monday, November 29, 2010

Grandma's Aprons

APRONS

By Tina Trivett and By Robert Ragan

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

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect
the dress underneath, because she only had a few. 
It was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they
used less material; 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 fall, 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 walked out
onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men
folks knew it was time to come in from the fields 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 windowsill to cool.
 Her granddaughters set theirs on the windowsill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure
out how many germs were on that apron.

I don't think I ever caught anything bad from an apron.
I caught a case of LOVE from one.

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