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And finally, here's something those of us owned by cats already knew:
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And finally, here's something those of us owned by cats already knew:
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... wrote: Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: Lowly Cardboard Box Gets Toy Hall Of Fame Spot Oh, yeah, I can believe that. Don't you remember how cool it was when your parents got a new refrigerator or washer, and you got that neat huge box to play with, until it got rained on, or your dad got sick of it blowing around in the yard? Sherry You betcha! Or until dad decided the trash pickup *really* needed to take away your neat new playhouse/fort! I also remember when I was about 7 or so sometimes seeing those boxes by other peoples' curbs and thinking "oooh!" and secretly coveting said big box! ;-o Jill I never had the pleasure of a big cardboard box! I was brought up mainly by my grandparents. They did have a cooker (from the year dot..) but no fridge. Nan had a pantry which had a cold marble slab in to put milk etc on to keep cool. Neither did she have a washing machine. She had an aluminium ribbed tub with a belly, called a dolly tub, and she used to put the washing in there every Monday with hot water boiled on the cooker and some sort of soap. My grandfather made her a device so she could turn the washing in the tub. He was a carpenter, so it was wooden. It had a long handle with a T bar at the top and down near the bottom was a round piece about a foot in diameter with several wooden "legs" on. What my grandmother had to do was rotate this vigorously backwards and forwards and also push it up and down. It worked well, definitely made the washing clean ;-) This thing was called the "dolly." She also had a thing she called a "dolly peg" It was used to turn the clothes while they were in the tub. This was also something that my grandfather had made, it was a stick made of some sort of nice wood, beech perhaps, tapering at both ends. It was used so much it got slimey. I remember it well, although I was a small child at the time. I remember that slimey dolly peg and how I was afraid to touch it at the age of 3 or 4. I can picture it now. I hope you all don't mind me sharing these memories, it's very OT. Tweed |
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And finally, here's something those of us owned by cats already knew:
I remember stuff like that at my grandparents house in Kentucky will I was
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