There are two captions on the pack of this picture. One of them reads, “picture of a coo… like Grandmother… farm (Theresa Ea… Sommerer”. The picture had been cut in half, and half of the message was (more or less obviously) gone as well. The second caption reads, “this kitchen stove looks a lot like the one we had.”
Hey, siblings…was there an extension on the right side of our stove that held the resevoir, or is this exactly like ours? I can’t remember. Everytime I see “our/this” stove, I think about the woodbox behind it that we little ones kept filled with split wood that fit in the firebox (on the left side) and kindling. The reason I think about it is that was our punishment place when we did something wrong (our time-out place). I had to sit back there for a period of time and it was a good punishment (heat/hell). I would take a pencil with me and draw pictures on the wall. What is weird is that I never got punished for that!
Hummm.
You became a good artist! You spent enough time there to hone your skill!!!
We didn’t have any paper to draw on that I can remember. Mother would write her shopping list and other things on old envelopes. Nothing went to waste.
My dad still does that…..he makes his cow lists and lists of things he has to do on used envelopes!
Just wanted to let everyone know, our house closed today…..we no longer own a house in San Antonio! Yeah! Thanks for all the prayers….now on to finding a home in St. Peters……wish us luck, we are on a mission!
Have fun looking at new houses. Maybe I’ll see you on HGTV!
congratulations, take your time and get exactly what you want. If you need a table that is 57 inches by 44 inches closed, with 3 extentions let me know. With a table that size just think of all the children you could have.
Sorry Aunt Cleo….I already have a replacement for that table already….but thanks, at least you didn’t offer to sell it to me this time! he he!
I am so happy for you and Paul! Our prayers have been answered! I agree with Aunt Cleo, take your time and get just the new home that you always dreamed of.
I remember as a child, Grandma warming up irons on the stove ( that looked like this one) to iron the clothes we were going to wear to church on Sunday. I remember the remodle and the stove sitting under the tree by the old car in the field. Who would have knownB===
I write on envelopes too! I vaguely remember Grandma’s cast iron stove -I must have been less than 5 years old–that would have been before 1959–did Grandma still have the stove then? I think it was all black with a real fire inside–scary! I remember Grandma gave me a cat to take home, which ran under under the stove when we were about to leave. I had to to reach under the stove to pull it out or my Dad would leave without it. That was incentive! I still use the expression “irons on the fire” because I remember them on Grandma’s. People probably think I’m nuts. Hey, this is like group therapy.
Mother’s kitchen stove was like this one, but longer. It had 6 burners instead of 4. That I am sure of, because I always wondered what the two next to the reservoir were for because we didn’t use them for anything but to make toast.(lay bread on top of) Mothers oven was large enough to hold 8 loaves of bread. I have a 30 inch oven and can only get 5 loaves in mine. That was a wonderful old stove. On days when the temperature was zero and minus, we bought our, out door work shoes into the kitchen, to warm them by the stove before going out to do the milking. in the evening we did the same. We kept them on the porch otherwise. Mary Jane, the stove in the dinning room had a small window that showed the wood burning. It was brownish-black in color, It was cozy to watch.