Things I Remember

I remember a barn raising after a storm took the roof off.  A cattle drive to get our just bought cows from a few miles away.  A crop harvest for a farmer who was ill.  A wall phone that requires you to crank a certain way to get the person you want (one long crank, two short sort of thing). AN ice house where you put the ice you cut off the lake in the winter.  A time when calling on the phone to someone out side your town often required an operator and cost according to the distance.  A one room school house where I had first grade.  No emergency services so going to the ER ment driving fast.  Single pane windows so the frost could get to be a quarter inch or more thick.  Winters that are sooo could, I remember a winter with a wind chill hit -59 degrees.  The DNR had an orange truck that someone had to go out and run every hour, they forgot and slammed the truck door shut, hear a crack, looked out to see the snow turned orange....make truck.😉