I had many of the same chores listed above, but here's a funny one... changing the channel! My dad used to get my sister or I to turn the dial to change the channel on the TV! This went on until we got cable and got one of those boxes with all the buttons and the long cord. haha too funny
Yes, the cats have chores. They are responsible for keeping mice out of the barn, have to be available for petting and cuddling, and are required to purr on occasion. I bet you are proud of your grandchildren!
I remember when the kitchen pump failed, I had to go to an outside well, prime the handpump....hoping I did not run out of priming water in the process and then lug the water back to the house. At one point I helped my father pull the well pipe and drive a new point into the underground river that luckily flowed under our property. Jerry
Grandmother (Mother's mother) and Grandmere (Father's mother) are wonderful. It is privilege to do chores for them.
we gleaned corn from the field after the combine went through. gathered the cut grass that had dried along the road when the township maintained the roadsides in summer, into piles and forked it onto the truck for horse hay fed and watered all the dogs and horses every day from kindergarten until high school no matter the weather morning and night for the horses. I remember being small enough to walk under a few of the horses. shoveling coal and cutting wood mucking stalls anything! my dad told us to do.
A neighbor had a greenhouse that provided plants and vegetables for springtime. An early spring job was emptying hundreds, it seemed like thousands, of clay pots of old soil and dead plants. Filling the cleaned pots with new soil to be planted. Jerry
I love all the responses. Most children did work hard, but they had rewards in good food, loving family and lessons in living which serve us well.
My youth was much the same as Sjoerd's. Tobacco was our 'cash' crop. Everything else was for eating. I found it odd that even though I thought I had enough to do on our place, my grandfather would send me up and down the 'creek' to work for neighbors.
FBG, although I only had a step-grandfather for a short while and never a grandmother, my parents had about the same ideas as your grandfather. If we finished the work at home, there were neighbors who paid for labor. I admit to being a source of disturbance to my parents. They sent me to a task and I was lost in daydreaming.
Well I've never had children but I know for sure they would have been taught all the talents of cleaning etc and got involved...lifes to easy for them in my opinion...it's just put out on a plate instead of being earned.
Of course that would be the children we hear about. Then there are the others, like my grandchildren, who contribute to their household and are pretty much good, decent people. Some more conservative and some more liberal.
