My brother and I were born and raised in this house. Daddy built it when he and Mama were married. It is just across the old road from the house he was born in. I guess it was modern for those days.It had sheet rock walls inside and that made it nice and cozy. However there were no modern convenience's. No electricity , gas or running water. All of our water for drinking and household use had to be drawn from this well by hand. We had a rain tank that caught rainwater that ran off the roof. It was used for washing and bathing. The ladies liked it to wash their hair in.There were no minerals in it so it left the hair soft. It was warm enough in the summer so you did not have to heat water on the wood stove for bathing.Boy, that water right out of the well would sure wake you up if you had to bath in it.. WE heated and cooked with wood. This made for a lot of work cutting enough wood for the winter.It also made for some grand memories of trips to the timber to cut wood.There was usually time for exploring the woods ,at least when we were smaller.Some times a picnic lunch was taken and if it was cold a fire was made.Us boys delighted in cutting green cedar branches and throwing bunches on the fire . It would make great bellows of white smoke. Sometimes we would find a piece of flint and put in the fire.After a while it would explode with a loud bang.We hauled the wood home , usually on a wagon pulled by two horses, where it was stacked in the wood lot to be sawed into stove lengths. Daddy had an old fordson tractor and a big circular saw that mounted on the front. Daddy would put the logs on the rack and push them through the saw. Some one had to catch the sawed off piece and throw it out of the way. As soon as we got big enough , that job fell to me and my brother. Standing that close to that big wheering blade was sure scary at first. Most to the logs were too big for the cook stove so had to be split. This was done with an ax. Nearly every one cooked and heated with wood in those days. Most people did not have a power saw , so we made a little extra money sawing wood for the neighbors . We had a two man crosscut saw to cut the logs in short enough pieces to be loaded on the wagon. That's one job where you and your partner had to work together or you would not get anything done.

Well, thats enough wood cutting for today.Lets go home, the cows have to be milked. When we were very small a hackberry tree was planted behind the house. My brother and I had a sand pile under it.One side was his the other mine.That kept us from fighting most of the time. We played with our toys ,built roads and plowed our fields. An old tin can lid made a wonderful plow and a peice of wood did a good job of gradeing the roads.We also had a tricycle and a red wagon.Later on we got a bicycle which we had to share. The house only had one bed room and I think we had our beds in every room at one time or the other. When we were about six or seven ,I think, they ordered us twin beds from sears roebuck.Well, if you ever ordered much from the mail order people you can guess what happened.Yep,they substituted on one of them. That caused a squable over who got which. About this time Daddy put a floor in the atic and some windows in the gabels and we were moved upstairs in the winter. If you have never slept right under a cedar shingle roof with a gentle rain falling you don't know what you have missed. Could be kind of sceary in storm though. In the summer we would move our beds out on the porch. It had vines growing around it. Kind of like another room except for the mosquitoes. We usually had so meny chiggrers eating on us till a few mosquitoes did not bother us.