At my grandparents houses, I would go out in the garden as a kid and pull up carrots, wash them off with the hose and eat them, eat green beans and cherry tomatoes off the vine. We also had apples, strawberries and raspberries.

Grandma made the best sauerkraut and pickles.

We had tomato, cucumber and red onion sandwiches. One slice of our beefsteak tomatoes completely covered a slice of bread.

When I left home to go to college, the first thing I noticed was tomatoes just didn't taste the same.

My moms home canned green beans were to die for - people don't know what they are missing. I buy Mennonite pickled beets that tasted like moms. As a child we didn't know how great we had it until it is gone...mom made peanut butter fudge & poured it over freshly popped popcorn, so good..Saturday night was float night. Dad was in a band before I was born Every week-end we sang all the old songs Dad's sister harmonized & mom yodeled - I was the youngest so I went through all the songs from the 20's onward...now people have phones stuck in their face with no communication...I refuse to own a cell phone..I grew up without a phone...Life was grand back then