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What do you miss the most about the old days,and simpler times?My 93 year old mother passed yesterday,and it got me to thinking about what I miss the most,besides her.My 95 year old dad,who is still with us,and mom,lived through some of the toughest times of all,like the great depression.That helped instill hard working family values in all of us kids(5 of us surviving).But the one thing that I constantly think about was my moms canning.She canned everything,from our huge garden.Beans,corn,beets,tomatoes,pickles,jams,juices,etc.,etc.Another treat she did was bottle home made root beer,I sure miss that.Homemade butter and ice cream from our one family Guernsey milk cow,was my job to milk her,before and after school everyday.My sisters used to tend the chickens,but I had to shovel the manure.
Have to keep an eye on dad now,as they recently celebrated their 75th anniversary before moms departure,and I know he has great emptiness,too.Sorry for the rambling,just a tough time now.
 
Sorry for your loss Trkr, wishing your family strength and peace.
To answer your question, fishing with my grandfather.
He took all of the grandkids camping/fishing with him, one at a time.
Smart man, no fighting that way!
 
I miss most the lack of things we have today. I miss times before computers, cell phones, paypal, ebay, etc. I miss when Sears was a big retailer. I miss when I had to visit two stores if I wanted a TV and 5lbs of ground beef. I miss the days before everything was a franchise. I miss loyalty in employers and perhaps most the feeling that career paths existed. I'm sure I could go on all day but I don't want to sound too negative.
 
My godfather's garage/hardware store.
Making maple syrup.
Smelling alfalfa cure with an open bedroom window.
Threshing oats, chopping corn, and a trip to the feedmill.

Homemade bread, freezer jam, and cherry pie (fresh from the oven).

Beller from an engine on full throttle at full load.

14 sticks of 60% under an elm tree.

Fourth of July Fireworks.

Thanksgiving and Christmas with the family; as a kid and as a parent.
 
Sorry about the loss.

What I miss most though I think,is just the sense of community that we used to have. Every event got a huge turnout. Main street was always busy,you didn't have to drive 50 miles for goods or services. We were a self contained community and everybody participated.
 
Sorry to hear of your mothers passing.

What I miss is just sitting and talking with my father.As for the other things we probably don't have enough time.

Vito
 
Homemade root beer? Never heard of that before, is that syrup with selzer water added?

It is neat to have your parents live to that age. You are fortunate for that. All my grandparents are gone now. My parents are well into their 70s now.
 
Sorry for your loss
I miss my moms pies, never have found anther pie crust like hers. And her canning, wasn't anything she couldn't can.
 
Sorry about your loss. She was old but she will never be here o earth again for you and your dad. I'm sure your dad is feeling very empty right now.

I too miss the sense of community and the lines of cars parked in town. The neighborhood baling and shelling rings meant hard work, but we got together for a common cause. The meals were good too!

Talking about canning, now that Marilyn isn't working away from home anymore we've had a garden for the past three years and we have the chickens. Since we started the garden the volume of tin cans and bottles in the garbage has decreased by at least 75%. On a humerous note, my 89 year old dad, who lives like they did during the depression, spends very little and saves a lot, looks at the garden and grumbles that "it's a lot of work"! Go figure! Jim
 
My Mom; she was my biggest supporter.

Finishing the last field of wheat when planting and again when harvesting.

Being as independent as I was during my time on the farm.

Playing cards with friends & neighbors during the winter evenings when there wasn't much else to do.
 
Sorry for your loss Trkr
To answer your question in a short but truthful answer .
I miss EVERYTHING about life and people, the way things use-to-be .The way people treated each other.
 
Sorry Trkr,

No words can make it easier either.

What I miss are the days before the "screw your neighbor" became the norm.

Allan
 
I miss the family owned tractor dealerships. I know a few survive, but it seems more disappear every year. Sure, some of the people at the mega dealerships are nice, but it's just not the same.
 
22 shels 20cents a box me and my two friends spending the night at the river. 10yrs old. yes we had our rifles with us. we never locked our house'cars'barns. the card game every other month. they would go till 2am. boy lots of good food.some of the best hard working people you would ever want to meet. if one was sick or hurt everybody took turns doing his chors. started driving tractor's at 12 for hire. loved those times
 
As a child: Spending the night at my grandpa's house listening to the mourning dove's in the morning while lying in bed smelling my grandmas breakfast. She made the best black raspberry cobbler with ice cream I have ever eaten. As an adult without children: Talking to my father in law for hours about anything. He was a farmer, a WWII vet., deputy sheriff and home builder. He was full of knowledge and never met a stranger. As a Dad: coaching my children on teams. Baseball, softball and soccer. Now they are gone. Time passes fast.
 
(quoted from post at 19:47:24 02/18/14) Sorry Trkr,

No words can make it easier either.

What I miss are the days before the "screw your neighbor" became the norm.

Allan
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Yeah. I got mine and that is just too bad for you you seems to be the promoted mindset now.
 
Don't remember moms recipe,but it was made with root beer extract,that much I remember,no seltzer water.She used to use old Virginia Dare bottles,we had a capper,and we would get oddball reject printed caps cheap.She would put the completed bottles in the cool basement to cure,and every now and then,you'd hear one with a little to much carbonation,explode in the middle of the night,lol.
 
Thanks for all the kind words,guys.I guess I'm not the only one that really likes to hold onto the old times.
 
Trkr; I extend my sympathy at your loss. Please share our comments with you dad, it should touch him.

I miss my late girlfriend. Also, the food 'grandma on the farm' cooked; lying in bed on her farm and hearing the windmill squeak in the pre-dawn light..just before the rooster crowed...lots more.

In your words..."I guess I'm not the only one that really likes to hold onto the old times." May you find peace.
 
I am sorry for your loss, but it sounds like she gave you a wonderful life! I just miss Sundays, sitting on the porch and visiting with friends and family making ice cream, and not caring what work their is to do, because it is Sunday.
 
No it was made by Hires. Came in a little brown bottle and YOU added sugar and yeast to it. Mixed it up and then bottled it in old beer bottles and you needed a capper to put on new caps. Put it in a cool place and let it age a couple of weeks. Ice it up good and then enjoy. Sorry but to me it tasted more like root beer flavor beer. Had a very heady flavor. One other caution..I said COOL place. If you let it sit in a WARM place the stuff would BLOW UP. The whole room would smell like a brewery. jeffcat
 
Your point about community is a good point. Even a lot of the farmers around here dont have that help the neighbor out thought process anymore. They all found and screwed each other fighting over land rent that many of them wont even talk to each other anymore....
 
I miss the people. I'm now part of the older generation, that is scary. Wish I'd asked more questions of the generation before me.
 
Sorry for your loss, I would have to say I miss the lost loved ones, mostly my grandfather, and before all the stress of farming on my own!
 
well , how about ,, I will NEVER MISS the culdesacs AND the kookie cutter $hiT hauzez carvin up the good farms that fed this country into GREATNESS, the stupid yuppi phuxthat run all over the fields with 4 weheelers ,,. that don't know beans about livestock ,erosion , crops , plantin , hayin and harvestime .and MOST OF ALL HARDWORK ./ but yet Go runnin off checks to HSUS every month , but wont pay their child support and bi tch about higher ta x es that THEYCAUSED by movin out to the Country Blowin The SChools out and the sewer seystems and creating the need for safer roads because THE YUPPIPHUX AINT GOT SENSE ENUF TO DRIVE,,.I WILL NEVER MISS all the druggie meth HEADSpill junkies ,,that come up my lane beggin for a job and talkin a good line bull $ hitof how they know everything about farmin and patronizing me for a chance to prove it ,, then claimin bellyache and using my bathroom for a half hour while they steal medicine cabinets blind for MY prescription meds,, or the little baS TURD that wrecked my truck, busted my pto ,blew a 500 hundred dollar tire joyriding and said the fence was working fine,, when he left ,,, cant understand how the cows got into the corn ,, Well Stupid,,, Thru the Gate You left
OPEN,!,. and the following week the SAME jerk will have the nerve to ask for thousand dollar advance on pay ,, wont tell you why he needs it ,, just got to have it now !!! ,,... HALENO, I will never miss that godless rot of dopesmokinscum that is ruining my once beautiful country,, and I wont miss those $hitheads when they decide to sleep in and not vo t e
 
I miss riding the pedal tractor and dreaming up implements while others worked. I miss the hugs and smells. Most of all, i miss I will never have that feeling again.
 
Sorrey to read of your loss just now ,,, shoulda saved my vent for another time....Only can Say ,, That This Country would have to havea miracle bestowed upon it to make citizens as Great as those that brought us up
 
Sorry for your loss, I lost my Dad a few weeks ago, life will never be the same. What I miss about time past is back years ago everything seemed possible ,the sky was the limit. I miss thinking I knew everything. Every year I now know what Grandpa meant when he said the older I get the dumber I get. I miss laughing for no reason till your sides hurt. I miss having friends that you thought would never let you down. I miss not caring about interest rates, or north Korea. Sure do miss muscle cars. Kinda miss Allis Chalmers. Really miss thinking the coolest thing was a drive in movie and a sweet cheerleader.
 
My condolences to you and yours on your loss.

I miss the way things were when I was growing up in the 50s. We worked hard, but we learned values. We learned to appreciate what we had. A dollar had more buying power then. I miss going to the local service station and buying a Pepsi, a pack of nabs, a pack of chewing gum, paying with a quarter and getting a dime in change!
 
(quoted from post at 15:43:16 02/18/14) What do you miss the most about the old days,and simpler times?My 93 year old mother passed yesterday,and it got me to thinking about what I miss the most,besides her.My 95 year old dad,who is still with us,and mom,lived through some of the toughest times of all,like the great depression.That helped instill hard working family values in all of us kids(5 of us surviving).But the one thing that I constantly think about was my moms canning.She canned everything,from our huge garden.Beans,corn,beets,tomatoes,pickles,jams,juices,etc.,etc.Another treat she did was bottle home made root beer,I sure miss that.Homemade butter and ice cream from our one family Guernsey milk cow,was my job to milk her,before and after school everyday.My sisters used to tend the chickens,but I had to shovel the manure.
Have to keep an eye on dad now,as they recently celebrated their 75th anniversary before moms departure,and I know he has great emptiness,too.Sorry for the rambling,just a tough time now.
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You're a lucky man. You had your mom till she was 93 and still have your dad. You did almost twice as good as I did. I know it hurts now and I'm sorry for that. It'll pass.

What do I miss? I miss the days when going on a 50 or 100 mile trip required the whole family making preparations, getting the car serviced, packing a picnic lunch (pre-McDonalds) and if you were lucky getting a mess of new comic books to read on the trip. I miss the peanut roaster in the aisle of Sears just past the tool section. What a smell! I miss the months looking forward to Christmas, the Sears Big Book and Montgomery Wards catalogs. I miss watching first run shows of Lassie, Walt Disney, Gunsmoke. I miss AM radio stations in every little town that would talk about people you knew and would play a record you requested. I miss the excitement of 4th of July celebrations, the somberness of Memorial Day, I miss seeing a small parade on Veterans Day and seeing a man who climbed Kettle Hill with TR and the Rough Riders. I miss older men smoking pipes and tussling my hair, ladies that wore hats and gloves to the A+P grocery store and whole communities filling the area churches on Sunday mornings. I miss log trucks passing our house every 10-15 minutes. I miss how every town had a hardware, a drug store, 4 or 5 babershops, a news stand, a couple of hotels and restaurants, a local newspaper and a fire company, 2 or 3 car dealers, chainsaw dealers, a tinsmith and a lumberyard, a bank and an appliance store or 2. I miss the stores staying open til 9PM on Thursday night because that was the day the mines and mills paid the workers. Now all the mills are gone and only 1 mine is open.

Nostalgia.......
 
Sorry to hear of your loss. Will always have memories of dad telling me at the dinner table, get you butt back out there on that F-20 after dinner and finish disking that field. I might of only been 12 or 13, but felt like the biggest boy in the neighborhood. Don't think there is a sweeter sounding tractor then the F-20 or M under load. Could listen to that engine 10 hours a day and never get tired of it. PS. Am I alright
 
I miss the days of when family, friends, and neighbors would routinely get together for a cook out. It seems everyone is so busy these days they don't have time to stop and enjoy life with one another.

The days of when people knew and talked to their neighbors. I still make it a point to visit mine. Most people today don't know their neighbors name.

The days of when Sunday was about going to church. It's devastating to see the attendance at churches these days.
 
Sorry for your loss. The most i miss is talking with our parents or grand parents of the knowledge they shared with you, the hard times they came threw and the good times. But there"s one thing
you can"t buy in the store and that"s the smoked meat that dad would butcher and smoke in the old smoke house. sugar cured bacon an hams. the receipes that his grand parents used which we still have wow what a flavor taste and smell you can" buy in a store. Prayers for your family.
 
Thanks again for the kind words,guys.Great group of like minded people on this website,that have been blessed to grow up in greater,simpler times,imho.
 
Sorry for your loss. Don't have any of mine around any more. But the thing I miss is COMMON SENSE! It is not common any more.
 
I miss the safety we had as kids. When I was growing up, we ran and played all over the neighborhood. We and our parents never had to worry about someone snatching us.

On Halloween, we were gone at dusk and didn't return until we were worn out. Our parents never had to check our candy.

What a shame.
 

My parents, my best friend (who past away way to young) and my youth,..plus the innocence that came with it.
 
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