The Rural Voice, 2002-12, Page 36GB
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32 THE RURAL VOICE
leave home after an early dinner
(lunch) and get back home in time
for late afternoon chores. One had to
stand around the mill waiting for the
chop to be made. It was a great place
to visit with others doing the same
thing. Sometimes Dad took the
grocery list with him and walked a
block to the Red Front grocery to get
whatever mother needed. This didn't
happen too often: he wasn't very
good at shopping.
n the winter Dad often drove me
and the neighbour kids to school.
It was a mile and a half, about 45
minutes by team and sleigh, (we
didn't have a cutter) so the round trip
took him an hour and a half and cut
severely into his chore time. In the
afternoon the neighbour picked us up
at school at 4:00 p.m. for the journey
home. The neighbours weren't early
risers so Dad always did the
morning run.
One winter, I „think it was 1944,
the barn well ran dry about the end of
Water had to be brought
from the creek in barrels
on a sleigh
January, so added to Dad's other
chores every day he had to take the
team and sleigh, loaded with barrels,
to the creek to get water for the cattle
and pigs. He borrowed barrels from
several neighbours. At the creek dad
had to break a hole in the ice with an
axe then dip the water with a pail and
carry it up onto the sleigh to fill each
barrel. Each barrel took 12 pails of
water and he needed eight to nine
barrels of water a day. I'll do the
math for you — 100 trips from the
creek to the barrels on the sleigh.
By the time Dad got the barrels
filled he was soaked and very cold.
The 15 -minute drive home must have
seemed like forever.
After a change into dry clothes he
then had to distribute the water to our
45 cattle and about 30 pigs. This
went on seven days a week for two
months before water reappeared in
the well. Dad sold that farm the next
year.
In spring the cattle were put out to
pasture. That was a happy day for
most farmers. Before the cattle were
turned out there was a period of
acclimatization. To untie the cattle,
especially the steers and calves and
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