tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316340053717587254.post5708271053027761225..comments2022-04-03T08:09:35.380-04:00Comments on The Neukomment Files: Guy Vernon Newcomer RememberedBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17131362642135303406noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316340053717587254.post-21112056700328736252009-11-27T11:36:27.007-05:002009-11-27T11:36:27.007-05:00Here is another of my mother, Ethel Green's me...Here is another of my mother, Ethel Green's memories of life on Grandma and Grandpa Newcomer's farm:<br /><br />"When my Grandmother cooked for thrashers the neighbor ladies baked pies, etc. and came to help her; and when it was at their houses, she would do the same for them. There were 12 or 15 men to cook for. The men washed outdoors. They had a big tub of water sitting in the sun to warm and we would take out a bar of homemade soap and a towel or two for them. They all used the same water and towel. Drinking water was in a pail with a dipper and everybody drank out of the same dipper. I think if there was any water left in the dipper it quite often went back in the pail. There was always a tin cup out at the pump where anyone could get a drink."Barbara Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010165703477436493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316340053717587254.post-52967993798291002122009-11-27T11:08:30.515-05:002009-11-27T11:08:30.515-05:00I enjoyed reading this, Bill. My mother (Ethel Gr...I enjoyed reading this, Bill. My mother (Ethel Green) has fond memories of her Grandfather Guy Newcomer as well. He enjoyed teasing the grandkids and squirting cows milk at them while milking. Here is a paragraph from her childhood recollections:<br /><br />"Grandpa Newcomer was always a tease. He would hide our dessert at mealtime and say we didn’t get any. When he was milking cows we would go to the barn with a tin cup for some nice warm milk, fresh from the cow. You wouldn’t do that today. If he would see us coming he would turn that cow’s teat around and squirt us with milk. We got to play in the hay lofts and the animal watering tank, corn crib and granary. They had an apple orchard in back where we would pick apples and eat. We made mud pies and helped Grandma gather eggs. One time when we gathered eggs I had climbed up to a high nest and when I jumped down I landed right in the bucket of eggs I had gathered."Barbara Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010165703477436493noreply@blogger.com