seeking the shade ...love this image. With the unusual heat we are not accustomed to this past summer, I was searching trees by the lake and just a tiny breeze would soothe me even if it were just a moment
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #38 A Trip Along Memory Lane #1 Carpe Diem Special How happy! Bathing in the tub full to overflowing The above one line poem by Sumitaku Kenshin (1961-1987) really sent me down memory lane. Until I was a teenager my family lived on a farm. The year Sumitaku Kenshin was born, my family moved "in town". That move brought us into a new age, indoor plumbing. Until that time there was a galvanized tub for baths and a path for other bodily necessities. Baths were taken on the screened in back porch during the summer months. There would be 3 to 4 inches of water in the tub. Water drawn from the well just outside the house. Some of the water would be heated in the teakettle on the stove in the kitchen. Youngest child would bath first. Then up through the ages of the children. Daddy was always the last. In the same 3 to 4 inches of water. Once baths were done, the tub was overturned and the porch scrubbed. Cause water was is
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seeking the shade ...love this image. With the unusual heat we are not accustomed to this past summer, I was searching trees by the lake and just a tiny breeze would soothe me even if it were just a moment
ReplyDeleteI have been waiting till dark to do my walking because the heat is so oppressive. Even then it is still close to 90 F some nights.
DeleteLove the oaken shade, Janice :)
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There are so many live oaks down here that have trunks about 4 feet in diameter. They are beautiful trees.
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