Mary LeBlanc
Mary LeBlanc
boil buy clothes dirty soap wash
I had to buy my own soap and starch. The clothes were so dirty I had to boil them before I could wash them.
milk tend work
I'd get up at 3 a.m. to milk the cows, tend to the chickens. Then, I'd work all day in the fields. Sometimes, I was so tired, I'd cry.
good miss school stand
The school wanted me to stay, but I couldn't do as much as I used to. I couldn't stand making my co-workers do my work. I was 70 when I retired. I had good friends there. I miss them all.
hard stuck worked
We had a hard life, but we stuck together. We worked together.
double saw wood
We'd saw wood - him on one end of a double saw and me on the other.
chickens cracks floor screens walking
When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.