tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post7662024601908450297..comments2023-10-03T06:18:27.828-05:00Comments on The Aardvark's PLUMBLINE: The mourning of things passed.The Aardvarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-51925805222525392442014-11-09T08:44:22.750-06:002014-11-09T08:44:22.750-06:00@Doom- For clarity I should have said "the cu...@Doom- For clarity I should have said "the cultural lie sez....".<br /><br />"... a continuation of childhood and school, really, just with a bigger allowance." That is a treasure of clarity, Doom!<br />------------<br />@Michael- Very cool. If the remaining Grans can pass on their secrets, if any listen, it will be a mackerel. <br />------------<br />@Amanda- You are The Aardvarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-15159051693436109842014-11-09T06:57:16.183-06:002014-11-09T06:57:16.183-06:00I've often thought the same when looking at my...I've often thought the same when looking at my generation. If not lack of time, it's been lack of interest killing cooking from scratch, gardening, sewing, ect. At the same time, I found myself growing more interested in the old way of doing things as I grew from young woman just starting out to mother. I've got a long way to go before I can pull off any "miracles from the gardenAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784316929068287380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-7484029274454690182014-11-09T06:40:33.735-06:002014-11-09T06:40:33.735-06:00My paternal grandmother (the only one of my grandp...My paternal grandmother (the only one of my grandparents that I actually knew) was a fishing fanatic (as was her husband: a Master Carpenter). When my folks moved to Tottering-On-The-Brink in 1968, on the banks of the Colorado, you couldn't pry her away from the river's edge.<br /><br />She also dipped snuff, could outshoot any male in the family (appropriate, as it was rumored her own Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-75475179077425201032014-11-09T02:09:03.697-06:002014-11-09T02:09:03.697-06:00Just live long enough. Between this, and that, th...Just live long enough. Between this, and that, the fool's gold we have been living on is going away. Grandma didn't do those things because she wanted to do them, initially. It was simple economics. She had to do them. After the yoke of duty became a treasured effort, you got what you got.<br /><br />If what I am seeing is true, women will be divorcing feminism, and the yoke of too Doomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392444624210801173noreply@blogger.com