We moved into a small two bedroom house (seemed large to us girls at the time). And guess what it had---INDOOR PLUMBING). We could now go potty in the house and flush it away. We also had a huge white bathtub. Well, it seemed huge to Kathy and I after bathing in a round metal tub in a kitchen. It had faucets on the wall that you just turned and water came out of, and one of them even had hot water!! This was so exciting to me at age 4! Mom even had a sink in the kitchen that had hot and cold faucets too. Daddy did ask us not to make anymore mudpuddles because he was going to try to grow some grass. We figured that was a very small sacrifice for what we were getting in return.
Kathy and I shared a room with Grandma--she had her own bed of course. Michelle had a crib in mom and dad's room. I remember that the living room walls were dark green, and the kitchen floortiles were red and white checkerboard. The dinette set was grey and white, kind of a swirled type pattern. There were hook-up faucets for an automatic washing machine, but we didn't have one right away. We got one soon though because we didn't bring mom's wringer washer with us. When we got the washing machine, it was one that had a round glass front window and we thought that was really neat to watch it slosh the soap and clothes around.
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I cannot imagine what a change that was from the old house and hometown. Imagine it was an even bigger deal for grandma to have water available without pulling it from a well, and a washing machine to do laundry. You were living the high life!
ReplyDeleteoh, the conveniences of modern life, huh?
ReplyDeleteIt was probably a lot more wonderful and incredible to mom than it was to us girls. I'm sure we had all been in a home or place of business that had indoor plumbing, but now it was ours!!!
ReplyDeletewhat a miracle is in door plumbing
ReplyDeleteIt sure is if you didn't have it before!
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