This week's theme is
What, in your town, brings up memories of your growing up years?
Yes this photo was taken at our fairly new Cracker Barrel restaurant.
As you can see it was taken near Christmas time in 2011.
The memory it envokes in me is of visiting our paternal grandparents who lived on a big farm way out in the country.
This would have been during the 1940s.
A huge fireplace like this was in the middle room where everyone slept in the winter.
I can remember my sister and I whispering and giggling and trying to talk when we went to bed and my grandmother shushing us up.
"Grandaddy has to get up early to milk the cows and I have to get up early to cook breakfast. You girls will be getting up early to do your chores."
"Oh no, chores" we chorused.
"Oh yes," said grandmother.
"Oh no, chores" we chorused.
"Oh yes," said grandmother.
Yes we loved to help in the cellar where our gm made butter, cottage cheese and other surprises she would have for us.
There was a huge cook stove in the kitchen where my grandmother cooked but this was the main gathering room.
We had our breakfast just the 4 of us but at lunch time she cooked for a horde of farm workers.
It asways seemed like a party to us but my gm was whipped by the end of the day.
She kept a pot of water for bathing in that fireplace and I can remember my sister and I taking a bath in the kitchen in a big wash tub behind the kitchen stove on Saturday night.
There are many things in the Craker Barrel dining room that remind me of my grandparents home.
You will know what I am talking about if you have ever been to one of them.
Go here for more FSO memories of growing up.
