our bathroom was finished we had an old fashioned "Out House" and we took our baths in galvanized tubs in the middle of the kitchen. (Real pioneer, huh!)

When we had company in the evening one of the things we kids liked to do best was to hang from the ceiling rafters and drop on the bed - it bounced like the trampolines of today - Mother couldn't figure out for a long time why our bed sagged so in the middle. Another thing she couldn't understand was why her carpet sweeper didn't pick up like it should - needless to day, we kids had been taking turns giving each other rides on it.

We went camping a lot at the beach and also in the mountains with friends and relatives. There were always lots of children as well as parents and we'd have fun playing games, hiking, sitting around the campfire singing. Another thing our families always got together and did was to go grunion hunting. Our dad's would build a big fire and make a wind break with blankets, our mothers usually stayed around the fire while our dad's and us kids nearly drowned trying to catch the grunion. It was always so nice to be able to stand around the fire and dry out, roast marshmallows and get warm.

As I look back on these years, I guess by today's standards, we were actually poor but we didn't think so. We were all together as a family, had a warm, if not finished home, we had carpets on the floors, lace curtains at the windows, nice furniture, clean warm clothes, plenty of good wholesome food and good homemade bread. We were really richly blessed and so thankful for all we had, for many of our neighbors weren't as fortunate as we were - so we didn't know that we were poor. We'd run all the way home on bake day for we knew we'd have nice hot bread fresh from the oven with butter and honey or peanut butter or all three and big glasses of milk and homemade cookies for lunch.
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