Spoiled

We are so spoiled these days. We have central heat and thermal windows and electricity.

My husbands' grandmother Bertha lived in this house for about 35 years without any of those things. She hand quilted many beautiful quilts. His mother has a few of those she has been keeping safe for the past 50 years. Well, maybe more like 73 years since she moved into this old farmhouse when she married her farmer in 1948. Electricity was installed in the barn first, then the house in 1946 after Bertha died. The house was still heated with woodstoves and cooking was done on an old Gurney cook stove. It sits in the back kitchen.

I wonder when they put in indoor plumbing? The bathroom was installed in the mid-1950s. We replaced some of those rusted old pipes 5 years ago. The kitchen was renovated in 1963 when they put in lots of cupboards and a counter. Those were made to fit between the door to the back kitchen, the door to the basement and the door to the upstairs. There are 3 other doors in the farm kitchen. One to the outside, one to the living room which used to be the dining room and the other to the hall that leads to the other stairs, the parlour/quilt room and the laundry room and bathroom. 

The old quilts are in storage still after the fire last February. The renovations are not yet complete. Several years ago, Ava and I went to visit Great Grandma and took pictures of those quilts. I will locate them one of these days on a jump drive somewhere in this old 180-year-old house that not only has electricity and central heat but wifi, thermal windows, and many indoor plants. 

Blessings,

Chris