The Dirty Thirties with Mary Bateman

My dad and our mother had a small house and then now he went how my yard and hand down sheep he got I don’t know how much you got but they were so often dad says you get so after you have to be shippers so we was you know we’d take the Sheep someplace where they could get grass and every breath back and then now the boys would do the camping yeah so we got extra money for them you know yeah it meant of course well he had we lived in a place where they condemned I kind of a oh dear we where we got water you know kind of and that water was just cold you know so and it you know it was kind of hard you know and a long time ago but my mother and they had cows so we got see they used to melt cows and then we had a we had but one of these great big them okay what did he call anyhow the for the for the milk for the cream all right time yeah we had that and then now and then our job was to treat it after we got done with that so yeah and then now he dumped dead we take it over the where we had that place there you know there cold place my dad went anoxia a trunk out of the out did bottom so we put our milk in one of those you know pail do you know and we took him down there and we set them in and actually it was just cold good idea to be but the idea that all of us says now it’s your turn to get their mail so yeah so that way that way at least you know I don’t we had to go up the hill you know yeah but that was a job there and then of course my mother and dad they had some putting put in a garden and I suppose you probably had that get afford they have um where you had all these Germany I mean grasshoppers there was one time when it cleaned up we got our guard their garden was just so good you know we had bottom and Tom had actually they ate you know and so he came in my dad came in and he says them he says I don’t know about that he says I don’t think we’ll have anything to you know so we waited awhile and then all of a sudden while he went back down to see he’s a while I’m gonna see and you know actually they came up again so that way we actually had the garden again you know so then they drive they had their room means the white beans corn and now other things you know that you can dry yeah so that way well at least generally and that was hard work to you had to you didn’t have the equipment so you had to beat thing on the to get the yellow red and went without beans you know out of the aeroshells and then of course the a potatoes so there they were tired although we didn’t have the year the machine reads or anything like that so but a wheesh arrived