Shoot and dress a deer, keep chickens/ducks/geese , and rabbits and also dress those. Till the garden space, plant it keeping it perfectly weeded (or else!) and then can the produce in the fall. We also helped our folks to seine smelt with a net out of a river, and process the HUGE garbage can full we caught, for the freezer.The girls did all the yard work as well as the laundry, ironing, cooking the meals, and shoveling the snow. For some reason, the boys had no household chores to do! We made the bread every Saturday morning, and did the general housecleaning then as well. We darned socks with a wooden egg as the base, and "darning cotton". I especially liked hunting, and even though I am a grandma now, I am still out there every fall. I taught both grand daughters to hand dip candles, grow a small garden space and harvest the vegetables. They gather eggs while here, and are learning to sew.
Shoot and dress a deer, keep chickens/ducks/geese , and rabbits and also dress those. Till the garden space, plant it keeping it perfectly weeded (or else!) and then can the produce in the fall. We also helped our folks to seine smelt with a net out of a river, and process the HUGE garbage can full we caught, for the freezer.The girls did all the yard work as well as the laundry, ironing, cooking the meals, and shoveling the snow. For some reason, the boys had no household chores to do! We made the bread every Saturday morning, and did the general housecleaning then as well. We darned socks with a wooden egg as the base, and "darning cotton". I especially liked hunting, and even though I am a grandma now, I am still out there every fall. I taught both grand daughters to hand dip candles, grow a small garden space and harvest the vegetables. They gather eggs while here, and are learning to sew.