Aprons

[daddys3chicks]

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect
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> > > the dress underneath,
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> > > but along with that, it served as a potholder for
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> > > removing hot pans from the oven.
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> > > It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on
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> > > occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
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> > > From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying
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> > > eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to
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> > > be finished in the warming oven.
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> > > When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding
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> > > places for shy kids.
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> > > And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it
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> > > around her arms.
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> > > Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow,
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> > > bent over the hot wood stove.
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> > > Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen
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> > > in that apron.
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> > > From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After
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> > >the peas had
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> > > been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
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> > > In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples
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> > > that had fallen from the trees.
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> > > When unexpected company drove up the road, it was
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> > > surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust
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> > > in a matter of seconds.
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> > > When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the
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> > > porch, waved her apron,and the men knew it was time
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> > > to come in from the fields to dinner.
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> > > It will be a long time before someone invents
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> > > something that will replace
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> > > that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
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> > > Send this to those who would know, and love the story
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> > > about Grandma's aprons.
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> > > REMEMBER
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> > > Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the
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> > > window sill to cool.
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> > > Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
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[pita1213]

i've seen this posted before and still love it. i get a chuckle out of imagining my grandmother standing out on the porch waving her apron up and down.

thanks for posting it.