Dose this ring any bells ?

Bruce from Can. · Dec 25, 2016

Seems normal to me , why it even happened today.

centash · Dec 25, 2016

Chores always came first here, for as long as I can remember, and still does today. Ben

jeffcat · Dec 25, 2016

Same here. Boy that used to cheeze me no end. HATTED IT.

JayinNY · Dec 25, 2016

Yes, chores always came first, even before breakfast for me.

Billy Shafer · Dec 25, 2016

I still remember the line up. Of my chores.
Light the heaters for the house. If it was winter time
Feed and water the cows.
Feed and water the pigs
Get the milking barn ready.
Gather any eggs.
Eat breakfast
Go to school.
Fun started over when I got home.

Tony in SD · Dec 25, 2016

Yep Remember it well.......
The only time dad let us go early is when we heard a car drive up and Santa got out. My brother and I were allowed to go to the house so we both ran as fast as we could before dad changed his mind.

fixerupper · Dec 25, 2016

Marilyn grew up helping milk 100 cows so she knows all about it. I had to walk the feed bunks before breakfast. Dad fed ground ear corn to the fat cattle and it was my job to feed them. If I remember right the most I had to feed was fifty pails in the morning and fifty at night, tripping over all those heads. Had to throw down hay too but that wasn't too bad. I also had a trap line to walk but that was pretty much over by Christmas.

JD Seller · Dec 25, 2016

I have had chores all my life. I never milked though. My Grand father did and I did morning chores with him until I started on my own. I never really like the tied down feeling milking cow gave me. I don't know why it felt different as I always had hogs and beef cattle that had daily chores too.

Philip d · Dec 25, 2016

Same here too,we even had to wake the kids after 8 to get the show on the road lol

tomturkey · Dec 25, 2016

I am sure many a farm boy/girl became citified because of the chore regimen on the farm. A lawyer I had dealings with several years ago told me, "the cold winter morning while doing chores that the cow stepped on his foot inside an old cold gum boot convinced him to never return to the farm, to study hard and do something else". Chores before presents was probably the norm. gobble

hd6gtom · Dec 26, 2016

Yep been there done all that. I hate milking, wife loves it.

Don-Wi · Dec 26, 2016

More than one Christmas where a combination of my brothers and/or myself would get up a little earlier than normal and get the chores and milking all done before Mom and Dad woke up. We'd just be coming up when their alarm would go off. If we really busted hard, we could get it all done in about an hour and a half, dad would just have to do a few things after breakfast and gifts. They never argued when we pulled that off.

Donovan from Wisconsin

SweetFeet · Dec 26, 2016

Husband said, "Yep!... that's why we never got into dairying."

DoubleR · Dec 26, 2016

We weren't Dairy Farmers growing up but my five brothers and sisters and I still had the same rule. All the chickens, cows. heifers, and feeders had to be feed and cared for before gifts were open on Christmas morning.

DairyFarmerInMA · Dec 26, 2016

My "calf feeders" are two and almost four. They are still a bit small for the job but they help when they can. They sure were ready to get going opening presents yesterday when i got back from the barn.

john in la · Dec 26, 2016

She might agree.
That is my daughter.
She is 26 now.

Brent Zappe · Dec 26, 2016

My Grandparents had Chickens and horses. Yes you might say that sounds about right when going to see grandparents for Christmas.

The Dukester · Dec 26, 2016

Ahhhh, yes, all through my high school years and 5 months after I graduated in May, 1952.....but at the end of October I left the farm and went to work in a machine shop.......Never got up and milked cows or did chores ever again.

Tech 7 · Dec 26, 2016

In the early 80's I worked for a farm family that ran a small (for the time) operation. We milked 30 cows, had a farrow to finish hog operation with 40 sows and a 25 cow beef herd. We also cropped 400 acres in our spare time and tapped 500 maples every spring for entertainment. On Christmas Eve day John (the owner) broke his leg, yes it was a farm related accident. After getting him out of the feeder pen and off to the hospital I faced a doubled work load. I normally had Christmas Day off but that was not the case this year. In order to celebrate Christmas with my family I started the chores "backwards" by feeding the beef cattle and hogs first at 4:00 am then starting to milk by 6:00. All this after Christmas Eve church service at 11:00 the night before.
I was still living with my parents and two siblings and made it there for Christmas morning celebrations that started at 8:00

Gary Mitchell · Dec 26, 2016

John, that is priceless! gm

Gary Reif · Dec 26, 2016

Know what you all mean. Been there done that.

casenut1 · Dec 26, 2016

Also had the chores to do . Had the trap line also . Trapping season started in early November and stopped in March. Trapped all season, remember checking traps at 1 am
and again at 6 am. Got twice the rats that way. Sure liked the year I got 8.00 dollars a rat.

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