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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ReplyDeleteThank you. It is so wonderful to be able to write about nature!
DeleteCan almost see the bees going from flower to flower around the bluebonnets.
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Hank, glad I was able to paint a mind picture of what we saw just this past weekend.
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That is simply a superb haiku m' dear! Really, smiling aside, this IS haiku...so well done.
ReplyDeleteWhy, thank you my Forest Friend. High praise from you. Just sharing what surrounds me in nature at this time of year.
DeleteA lovely scene!
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DeleteLovely Janice. Bastet
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bastet.
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