Chores

I  remember having a list of chores.  At some point the list may have stopped but we still did things.  And my memory of receiving an allowance was tied to that....for a time.  Then it just became an allowance.

Chores included:

Washing dishes (which was time to fill up the sink and play with my "guys")

Emptying waste baskets

Picking up sticks is one I remember.  We would use the wheel barrow and push around the yard picking up sticks/branches.


Later we helped with mowing but the idea of chores started before I was old enough to mow.

I do remember trying to get out of as much work as I could.  My hope is that Dean would get sucked into and between Dad and him it was covered.  I remember Dad cleaning windows with newspaper.  Of course, my view was from INSIDE the house.

Mowing was something I enjoyed.  The yard seemed much bigger then than it does now although 2/3 of an acre is nothing to sneeze at.  There was the "back".  The "middle".  The "north side" and "south side" and then the "front".