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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938
1927-04-13 Page 43
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-43- after dinner I went into the smaller room where there was no heater. And I chilled and took a severe cold; which kept me in bed for about a week and put me back in health quite a while. Next day they got a heater belonging to Aslak: cutting a hole thru the ceiling and roof; for the iron pipe to go thru. This made it much better as mamma and Georgetta slept in there; and had their table and little wall cupboard also. Georgetta did the cooking on the two heaters; which was rather difficult; especially, that we all three ate some different foods. The kitchen was very dark; and too cold and damp to use for common: and the only means of cooking was a large stone fireplace where grandma used to hang kettles over the fire, and bake the flatbread (unleavened bread). Here Georgetta het water for washing clothes; which she drew and carried from an old well near the house. She also baked pancakes for she and I out there. She carried the drinking water from a spring down the slope about two hundred feet from the house. We had not been settled here over two
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-43- after dinner I went into the smaller room where there was no heater. And I chilled and took a severe cold; which kept me in bed for about a week and put me back in health quite a while. Next day they got a heater belonging to Aslak: cutting a hole thru the ceiling and roof; for the iron pipe to go thru. This made it much better as mamma and Georgetta slept in there; and had their table and little wall cupboard also. Georgetta did the cooking on the two heaters; which was rather difficult; especially, that we all three ate some different foods. The kitchen was very dark; and too cold and damp to use for common: and the only means of cooking was a large stone fireplace where grandma used to hang kettles over the fire, and bake the flatbread (unleavened bread). Here Georgetta het water for washing clothes; which she drew and carried from an old well near the house. She also baked pancakes for she and I out there. She carried the drinking water from a spring down the slope about two hundred feet from the house. We had not been settled here over two
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