I'm so old I Remember when:

[Ursuline Chick]

Pirogues = Similar to a canoe, lower sides, flatter bottom, for going through very low swamp water.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Central southern Michigan, about 15 miles from the Michigan Indiana line.

Are you up to your behind in snow right now?

 

[Sally PB]

I remember my mom bringing home my dad's shirts from the dry cleaners. They were folded around a sheet of thin cardboard that was smooth white on one side, grey on the other. We got those the draw and color on. Of course we used the white side first, and reluctantly used the dark side when we ran out of the "good sides."

Easley Cleaners. Blast from the past.

 

[jxp]

Sounds awesome! Brings back memories... My Dh#1 and I joined a little religious group traveling through Manzanola, CO in 1974, and they had a unicorn hitch. Traveler was the lead horse, an American Saddlebred if memory serves. King and Mr Ed were the wheel horses. I learned not only to drive that team, at age 21, but to harness them as well. We travelled through five states before I suffered a miscarriage and became too ill to travel, ending up in Hamilton, MT. What an experience!

I am sorry for your loss.

 

[tripletfeb]

Remember when groceries came home in ... wait for it ... brown paper bags? Mom would give us crayons and let us draw faces on them. Then she'd cut out eyes in them, and on the sides she cut scoops for our shoulders. We'd put them on and chase each other around for hours, playing "monster." What fun! That was for rainy days. Sunny day fun involved cardboard boxes and forts made of plywood and lumber scraps and bricks dad brought home from his construction jobs. We were rich, nobody else had toys like ours!

My mom always used those paper bags to cover our school books in. I remember watching her and thinking it was like magic, how she could make a paper bag fit a science or math book. Then when we got to school, we were allowed to decorate them

 

[azurbanclucker]

My mom always used those paper bags to cover our school books in. I remember watching her and thinking it was like magic, how she could make a paper bag fit a science or math book. Then when we got to school, we were allowed to decorate them

You Mom was nice. My Mom made US cover them.

 

[tripletfeb]

You Mom was nice. My Mom made US cover them.

With six kids, it was easier for her to do them than try and teach all of us. She could whip out 30 books so fast

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Our dairy cows were pretty accurate as well.

How exactly do cows predict the weather?

I am sorry for your loss.

Thank you.

@tripletfeb, my mom must have taught our older sisters, and they taught my brother and me. Yup, we covered our own books. It was kinda fun, gearing up for school every year. Sorry, Moony, yeah I was one of "them kids" through and through!

 

[troyer]

Are you up to your behind in snow right now?

This is right now in our backyard.

 

[troyer]

How exactly do cows predict the weather?

It depended some on how much time they spent in the pasture versus the barnyard during the day. Sometimes we had to chase them to the field and at other times they went on their own.
In the summer it depended on how bad the flies pestered them and so forth.
The ability to read the animals comes from spending years in daily close proximity with them.
When you asked how do cows predict the weather, I was almost at a loss on how to describe it because it's more of a mental acknowledgement than an expressed definition.