Wish Wash

"Wish Wash" $250 U.S.

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Dan Bunch
2236 Co. Rd. 314
Cleburne, TX
76031
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Howdy,

Oh, my! I love this time of the year.

Trees are trying to bud. The weather is more than great, with seventy and eighty degrees showing up on the thermometer hinging on the studio wall. The birds are increasing in kind and numbers. There is a breathless wait for spring!

The family is planning our first cook-out. I think it will only be hot dogs. But "Hot Dog!" I am ready for that.

We cook-out, just off the porch, using a butane fired grill, all winter. But come spring, it will be to keep the heat out of the house.

That is a long-time think here in the south. In old days, the cabins had a living cabin, and under the same roof, but with a "dog-trot" between them, a cooking cabin room separate. Even when people got wood to build a proper home, the cabin was left standing lots of times, just back of the house, to use as both storage and cooking.
Wood had to be hauled by horse drawn wagon from Longview or further away East. Lumber mills were almost non-existent in the Central to West Texas. Cotton would be hauled East, and Lumber would be hauled West on the return trip. That and some food supplies, was about all the farmers hauled. Whiskey was a main staple in the diet in those years. Corn, believe it or not, was not considered food! Pioneers thought of corn as a feed for livestock, not as food for people. That is because they had a poor strain of corn I think. have you ever eaten "yellow dent" corn? There is quite a difference you see, in corn types. "Yellow Dent" is not very good for the pallet even when it is in very young ears. But I have eaten a lot of it.

Reminds me that I have pulled a toe-sack (feed sack to you Yankees) for miles to pick up corn on the "halves". That is, you would walk along where the corn picker had picked the corn. And you stepped on the shucks that looked promising. As your foot "found" a shuck that had an ear in it, or even half an ear, you picked it up and put it into the sack. At the end of the day, half of what you picked up was your, the other half was the farmers. It was money to us very young boys. And spent just as well on movies and soda pop (cokes to us Southerners, as all soda pop is called) on the weekends, as the later jobs of hay hauling and newspaper delivery. Only that was for the "older" boys to do.

Later,
Dan Bunch
TX