Hey, Good Lookin’ — What Ya Got Cookin’?
North of the 49th parallel, Thursday, November 6th is ‘National Men Make Dinner Day”. Why Dick Van Dyke? Gravel Roads could locate very few images of men in the kitchen, retro- vintage-dated. Other than...
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International Year of Family Farming – Cluck, Tweet, Thumbs Up, and Belly Dance
If you’re a family farmer . . . You ‘oats ‘n peas ‘n beans ‘n barley grow’ You raise pigs or chickens or turkeys or cows for milk ‘n cheese ‘n cream ‘n rump roast. You may...
What it Means to be a Rural Woman, Part III
Living alone, or as Mother put it, a ‘grass widow’. My Mother (1959 – 1971) In November 1971 — Turning 16 years of age on November 7, Gravel Roads was issued a bona fide driver’s license by Saskatchewan...
What it Means to be a Rural Woman, Part II
Operator, long distance, please . . . . My Mother (1944-1959) By ’44 or so, Mother moved the family from the southeast corner of the half-section of land, to the northwest corner, where the new white house...
What it Means to be a Rural Woman, Part I
The United Nations sets aside October 15th as ‘International Day of Rural Women’ to ‘recognize the critical role and contribution of rural women . . . .’ I’ve set aside every one of my ±21,170 days on this...
