Washday, you just got up in the morning and carried your water from this little spring. It took an hour or so to get that all heated up and poured into your tub. As soon as you got that in your tub, you'd start scrubbing on the board.

We had the Waterloo stove. It was a flat wood stove with a round oven on it.

The Waterloo was blocked with boilers. There wouldn't be any dinner cooked that day. After the pots were off, we could cook our supper. Supper we called it then. They call it dinner now.

We'd cook dinner on Sunday, and the pot liquor off your Sunday dinner, you'd save it. On Monday you'd make soup with it, probably for dinner. That was only easy to make. Tuesday we'd have meat again and Wednesday we would have fish.

On Thursday it was a meat day and on Friday was fish again. Saturday would be just something light, maybe make up hash or have some little stew or something. On Sunday we'd have the big dinner.

You'd have something light for supper on Mondays and Saturdays. Perhaps you'd have stew, in different ways.

It wasn't until the early 1950s when I got this stove with the fancy water tank on it. We did very good that summer. And I had a gasoline washer that same time. Until then I used the scrub board and wash tub.

We had the bare, white lumber floor at first. You had to get down on your hands and knees and scrub that with a brush once a week. That was hard to keep clean with a crowd of kids.

We also got a floor covering for the kitchen floor. We used to call it mill canvas. It was white, heavy stuff, and we painted that. When we got this mill canvas, we painted it a nice brown. It was pretty good too.

My husband never made any big money, but nobody went hungry. Things weren't good for people who didn't have a husband.

We used to eat a nice lot of potatoes. For sure we used thirty pounds a week or maybe more. We also had parsnip and other vegetables. Our cellar was under the house.

We bottled jams, we bottled meat and if we got any rabbit worthwhile, we'd bottle rabbit, and different things.