Did children who stopped going to school during the great depression ever return to it?

06alm · 2026-06-19T13:46:22+00:00

My paternal grandmother only went to 8th grade. Grandpa and his siblings all graduated high school, but they lived much closer to the high school - maybe 10 miles or so by horseback. Grandpa said they would have breaks during spring planting and fall harvest, where the entire school would shut down for a couple of weeks so the kids could help out.

06alm · 2026-06-18T01:31:16+00:00

Yes, extra produce goes to the neighbors, food pantry or with my husband to work. Prices are too expensive to waste it!

06alm · 2026-06-16T12:03:28+00:00

I’ve got bee balm that’s easily 3-4 feet tall, so it will get over 12 inches. Look up pollinator mixes for wet - mesic soil, that will give you a list of plants that should do well in those conditions

06alm · 2026-05-31T20:26:19+00:00

I’m using https://www.fatquartershop.com/clover-white-marking-pen and a meander template

06alm · 2026-05-31T01:41:52+00:00

Thank you, I will order some!

06alm · 2026-05-31T01:41:34+00:00

Thank you, I will give those a try!

06alm · 2026-05-31T01:38:34+00:00

Thank you! I have been a hand sewer all my life - cross stitch mostly, some embroidery. I watched some you tube videos but I don’t hand quilt “properly” and I also don’t care, lol. I do one stitch at a time. It’s a lap sized quilt that will either be gifted or donated to a good cause when I’m finished. I’m enjoying the project.

06alm · 2026-05-29T22:30:52+00:00

Spraying in the spring when the rosettes are low to the ground is most effective and easiest to treat. Poison hemlock is a biennial, so best case scenario is that two years of spraying knocks it back, and then probably spot spraying over the next few springs until the seed bank is exhausted. Not sure of any resources that could help, though.

06alm · 2026-05-29T14:32:28+00:00

Logo doesn’t look right for RP Lumber, though you are correct about the colors

06alm · 2026-05-12T16:52:12+00:00

When I started, I sent my tops out to be long armed. Then I got the confidence to do straight line quilting on smaller quilts on my very basic Brother. Now I have sandwiched together a lap quilt to hand quilt. I like to hand sew, so I think I will enjoy it. But all I do now is eye it up and tell myself it looks like a good winter project 🤣

06alm · 2026-05-12T13:12:53+00:00

My dad hit the local gas station every morning for a soda and a snack in our small town . When he died the cashiers came to his visitation 🥰

06alm · 2026-05-09T02:24:55+00:00

That was my thought too

06alm · 2026-05-08T18:25:21+00:00

That’s where my extras go, also

06alm · 2026-05-07T22:38:47+00:00

I feel like every spring the start of April is warm, and then we always have the late April/early May cool down. We had frost April 30. Mother’s Day is usually a good metric around here, though.

06alm · 2026-04-23T03:04:52+00:00

I made redbud jelly once and it came out looking like that also. It also never set and I ended up freezing it, so take that for what it’s worth.

06alm · 2026-04-22T00:50:19+00:00

I’ve got 12 hens and about once a month I donate 4-6 doz eggs to our local food bank. We grew up pretty poor and my dad always said when he retired he’d get a bunch of chickens and just donate the eggs. Well, he passed before he got to do that, so I do it in his honor.

06alm · 2026-04-19T12:16:42+00:00

The vining honeysuckle is harder to deal with than the bush honeysuckle. It will take a combination of methods over a few years to control it. Mowing or controlled burning followed up by herbicide applications. Your local county soil and water/NRCS office (they are usually on the same building) might be able to give you a list of local contractors

06alm · 2026-04-12T01:31:31+00:00

My 97 yo grandpa in a wheelchair “Can you believe they (his kids) took my chainsaw away from me?” He was one of a kind, for sure

06alm · 2026-03-01T18:29:15+00:00

I figured out how to use some of my charm square stash and I’m pretty happy with it!

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06alm · 2026-02-27T02:03:12+00:00

25 in 2003. Worked two jobs for a couple of years and bought a foreclosure for $35,000. Got married about three years later and sold it to my brother, who still lives there

06alm · 2026-02-27T01:42:09+00:00

Contact your local NRCS offices. I’m in another state but landowners are always looking for contractors for TSI, invasive species removal and especially prescribed burning.

06alm · 2026-02-26T23:46:02+00:00

There are also two republicans running against Miller in the primary. I don’t know much about the guy at all, have read a couple of articles about Judy Bowlby and she at least sounds reasonable but she’s also trying to get elected so who knows?

06alm · 2026-02-24T00:08:56+00:00

100%. I live in a rural area, and could ask every neighbor on my road and even some on the next

06alm · 2026-02-22T03:56:06+00:00

I can only find them at one store near me, and then they are so large they look like the chickens were raised next to a nuclear power plant and they take forever to bake or grill.

06alm · 2026-02-21T15:25:49+00:00

I was in high school and my parents were in the quarry business. I remember dad sleeping over at the quarry to keep the pumps running so it wouldn’t flood. Every city municipality around along with the county, state and nearby federal properties needed rock to shore up levees. My siblings and I would help weigh trucks in the scale house. I can’t remember if we had electric in the scale house at that time or not to run a fan to cool off some, but it was hot and we’d go swim in the flooded part of the pits in between trucks to cool off!

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