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Quote by Willow Oak

Did you live in the era when you did all or most of your cooking on a wood stove? My mother did, and a few years back when this area of the country was crippled with a massive ice storm, and electricity was out for weeks, mother cooked all of her meals in her fireplace.

I missed out on Wood Stoves, Outhouses and the like. I was a city/suburbia kid that had most of the conveniences all my life. We even had a private line on our phone.

I do recall as an 8 year old, me and my older sister going to spend the night with our black maid Essie. I don't even remember what the ocassion was but for some reason my parents were out of town. I remember the smell of her wood stove till this day. My fire place smell will drum up that memory from time to time.

The thing I remember the most about that night was when Essie woke me the next morning I saw my first snow.