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Show 0 I OP: Y ah. It amazing ho y u r 11 n n uh t n u n nothing. It's just amazing what you can do. I think I ld di h We would _[unclear]_ with my dad and first you put th yo ut it II ni ht on we had gas with the big kettle and leave it kind of simmer all night. And in th momin u took it out and you put it in the double tubs and you had that washboard. Then aft r that y u had to put it through the ringer and then you had the blue water, put it through that go through th ringer again, then you had to hang it up outside. I think about it now and think How did we ev r do it (laughs). But then, I was a lot younger and now I think about it and I don't think I'd survive. But it's amazing when you don't have it and when you have to do it, you do it. That's all there is to it, really, because there is no other way and somehow, we survived. BEC: I wanted to ask you about your mother's health. Was your mother healthy during the war? SOP: Yeah, she was. She was always pretty healthy. In the later years, when she came over here, she got arthritis real bad. But she was really pretty healthy. In fact, she did not work but one day a week she worked for a lady, to clean house. BEC: That was here? SOP: No, that was in Holland. Yeah, when she came here, my sister, my older sister, had kind of like a rest home, you know where older people go? She kind of started in the business. And my mom used to work in that rest home, too, in the kitchen. I think that had a lot to do with her arthritis, too. It was right on Thirteenth East and she had to wait for the bus and early in the morning. She was a hard worker, always. JEA: You guys are all hard workers. 43 |
