My Grandmother's Old Woodburning Stove

Tweet

I don't know what made me think of it-- that old woodburning stove that was the main cooking stove in the kitchen although grandma also had an electric stove that set by the woodburning one in that side of the kitchen. I can remember many the cold mornings grams would get me out of bed and bring me into the big, overstuffed chair in the kitchen. The stove would be crackling, and the oven door was open, sending warm air out into the room. I remember so many mornings this way. Then my hair would be braided, I'd have some breakfast and off to school I would go most mornings. I was probably 6 at that time. She always kept a soup of some kind cooking on the back of that stove. She told me that during the great depression men would often come to the house asking for food. Grandma always had a hardy bowl of soup and a slice or two of bread to share with them. The image could be that very stove. My grandmother had babysat a young girl named Marsha for many years. She told grandma she would sure like to have the stove when grandma wasn't using it anymore. Sure enough a few months after she quit using the stove Marsha and three husky helpers came to remove the stove.