I just found your writings and podcast and want to thank you for your work. I am a baby boomer and your work is bringing back many memories. I remember going with Mom to the freezer locker with freezer boxes of sweet corn or pitted cherries or other foods we had harvested from our garden and orchard. How strange it seemed in the heat of summer to dig out our winter coats to take to town along with boxes of food to freeze.
Mom ( or sometimes Dad) would get the key from the butcher and, donned in winter coats, we would enter the subzero locker room. Mom would locate our locker box, unlock it, pull out the drawer and we would fill it with our bounty. I remember her glasses fogging up when we left the ‘vault’.
It was an honor to get to help, like a rite of passage. This was not an outing for silly or disobedient children.
I love this so much! Thank you for sharing your story. The details you remember are wonderful, especially the winter coats in the heat of summer and her glasses fogging up. I can picture it so vividly! I'm always looking for personal stories to share on my podcast. I'd be happy to share yours if you're willing!
That would be great. We need to pass down our stories. I am willing to share memories. I have good memories. For example, our ‘basement work’: cleaning eggs before taking them to the grocer to trade, helping Mom do laundry with our ringer washer, wintering geraniums in the south window, watching Dad load the furnace with coal or wood.
So many memories of growing up on a farm near a small town in Iowa.
I loved to hear about all of these memories! Are they memories during the war or after? If you'd like to write me about them, please feel free to email me at victorykitchenpodcast@gmail.com . Thank you for being willing to share such wonderful memories!
I just found your writings and podcast and want to thank you for your work. I am a baby boomer and your work is bringing back many memories. I remember going with Mom to the freezer locker with freezer boxes of sweet corn or pitted cherries or other foods we had harvested from our garden and orchard. How strange it seemed in the heat of summer to dig out our winter coats to take to town along with boxes of food to freeze.
Mom ( or sometimes Dad) would get the key from the butcher and, donned in winter coats, we would enter the subzero locker room. Mom would locate our locker box, unlock it, pull out the drawer and we would fill it with our bounty. I remember her glasses fogging up when we left the ‘vault’.
It was an honor to get to help, like a rite of passage. This was not an outing for silly or disobedient children.
I love this so much! Thank you for sharing your story. The details you remember are wonderful, especially the winter coats in the heat of summer and her glasses fogging up. I can picture it so vividly! I'm always looking for personal stories to share on my podcast. I'd be happy to share yours if you're willing!
That would be great. We need to pass down our stories. I am willing to share memories. I have good memories. For example, our ‘basement work’: cleaning eggs before taking them to the grocer to trade, helping Mom do laundry with our ringer washer, wintering geraniums in the south window, watching Dad load the furnace with coal or wood.
So many memories of growing up on a farm near a small town in Iowa.
I loved to hear about all of these memories! Are they memories during the war or after? If you'd like to write me about them, please feel free to email me at victorykitchenpodcast@gmail.com . Thank you for being willing to share such wonderful memories!
Yum!! This is so festive! And that vintage nut-chopper is amazing.
Thank you! I have such good memories of using it to help my mom bake. 😊