A true " SUNSHINY" Day at last !
Annie over at
A STITCH in TIME created a Friday Smile Day.. hop on over for more fun.
I found this on Facebook and so remined me of a my true "Grandma"
The History of 'APRONS'
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath
because she only had a few. It was also because it
was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons 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 folk 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.
Send this to those who would know (and love)
the story about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies
on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill 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 from an
apron - but love...
