peacock
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- Oct 16, 2009
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Do you remember going to the well to get water to prime the pump in your house?
lonesomebob said:-Back in the late thirtys I helped drive our first well. Before that my dad had to go down a hill and ,using a yoke carry two five gallon cans of water from a flowing well . One time in January,he slipped and fell and was drenched. The language used that day was enlightening. Does that make me an old fart?
mojjax said:Back in 1981 I rented a small house . The kitchen sink had an iron hand pump . I always had to keep a jug of water handy to prime it . Out in the back yard was an outhouse .
One winter morn I drudged through the snow to to do my business . While sitting on the hole , something fell from a shelf above me . It landed in my pubic hair . It was a newly born mouse . It was all pink and wrinkly , eyes weren't yet open . I carefully removed it from my crotch and looked up , the mother mouse was staring down at me . I gave her baby back . She pull it into an old rolled-up screen that was stored up there , I guess that's where the nest was .
The rent was cheap