Ranch wives

Both of my Grandmothers were rancher wives and so their income was not weekly, or every other week, or monthly, but theirs was once a year. After they sold their cattle in the fall. I remember going to town and buying and coming home with the back of the pick-up loaded with case goods that would last a year. They also had gardens that they would bottle hundreds and hundreds of food. Once a year they would butcher a beef and if they didn't have a freezer they would dry or bottle the beef for the coming winter months. They would get their fruit anywhere they could, either from a peddler or from a surrounding town that had fruit trees. We would always pick wild grapes in the canyon in the fall to make jelly. My granny's were very thrifty women. I admire their courage and strong mind. There was never a time when we didn't have something to do. If we were not being nice, then Granny would alway find work for us to do to keep us out of trouble. I remember when it got cold outside, Granny would always have a quilt that she would be working on.





Alice May Hunt Despain Alice Bowler Porter