Aprons

I got this neat email
about two days ago.
It is a little sentimental
of times gone by.
Something that our
grandchildren probably
won't see.
And Grandma's aren't
even what they use to be
anymore.
Hope you enjoy it as much
as I did...

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 some
thing that will replace that
"old-time apron" that
served so many purposes.

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