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#9282
10-30-2016 | 06:35 PM
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LOL This aint roughing it buddy. When I was a kid I had to carry a bucket to the spring, fill it up and carry it back to the house for drinking/cooking water. Took my baths in the river until the water got too cold. Then it was stand in a big old washing tub like this after I got too big to be able to sit in it 
Still had to heat the water on the wood stove for baths
Still had to heat the water on the wood stove for baths
#9286
10-30-2016 | 06:43 PM
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I guess so, but we didn't think of it that way at the time. It was just what we did. 4 room shack on up on a slate bank above the river. We did have electricity though!
#9288
10-30-2016 | 06:49 PM
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I ain't complaining Marcus. I spent some of the best times of my life in that old shack. I had the river below to fish and swim and the hills to hunt and trap above. What more could a hillbilly boy need?
Well besides a hillbilly gal or two of course
Well besides a hillbilly gal or two of course
#9289
10-30-2016 | 06:50 PM
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Roughing it in todays world. Life back in the day. Simpler is not always the worst way either. Some days I wonder...
#9290
10-30-2016 | 06:50 PM
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Moonshine.