Old Fashion Aprons


Do people use them anymore?
I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

Here's some thoughts about aprons:

• The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

• It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears .

• From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

• When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

• And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

• Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

• Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

• From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

• In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

• When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

• When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

• It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

REMEMBER:

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

I've got one somewhere . . . maybe I'll get it out. Might come in handy!


Quote:
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you've crossed the river. --Haitian proverb

Blessings