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- Go to Sunday, Dad's day off on the farm. Some Sunday thoughts.
Kabu
Thanks for that story. Younger folk need to hear these kinds of stories, to better understand and relate to their elders. The generations are breaking down and becoming hostile to one another, more than ever before, I think.
It is funny, my 'sin' used to be racing dirt bikes on Sundays. It was recreation not 'work', but let me tell you, it was a lot more 'work' than my work. The preparation, the maintenance on the bike, the loading up, the unloading, the cleaning. And the race itself, very intense, with danger and extreme physical exertion. My muscles were sore for a couple of days. But technically it was not 'work'. The church-goers still condemned us, simply for not going to church.
posted by
GoldenMean
on March 21, 2017 at 12:30 AM
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We still have some blue laws (mainly related to alcohol not being sold on Sundays) still in effect. For the most part, though, Sunday is either another workday or an extension of Saturday. I can just imagine the tension that was had when people would reap on a windy Sunday.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 20, 2017 at 9:03 AM
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And right there is where the most needless troubles start: a community once all homogenized into comfortable sameness and predictability starts acquiring Differences...
posted by
Ciel
on March 20, 2017 at 3:59 AM
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Well I have always in the past worked on Sunday, chickens needed feeding and eggs collected. A local farmer I knew who was in a religious movement did not feed his pigs on Sunday as he thought it was wrong to work. I bet they looked forward to that day. Load of rubbish a lot of views. Can't say more, U no Y. 
posted by
C_C_T
on March 20, 2017 at 1:41 AM
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Kabu
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post, dear Kabu. It reminded me of when I was a little girl, and the town's religious were seemingly divided between Catholics and Protestants. They didn't mingle socially, but my parents broke the rules; they were friends with Lutherans and so I had a little friend who was a Protestant. Never did distinguish a difference there... And never mind that my mom's mother had been Protestant, but that's another story. Your dad seemed to do things right, and that's why he had a successful farm. Interesting about the barley. John Barleycorn, gotta love him... 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on March 19, 2017 at 8:26 PM
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My town is mixed between Catholic and Mormon! The Mormon businesses are never opened on Sunday! Your sam I am
posted by
sam444
on March 19, 2017 at 5:48 PM
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One man's practicality is another man's sin, I guess.
I once attended a southern Baptist church for a few months: no dancing, no drinking, no smoking, no rock & roll, no jazz or blues, etc. Then one day in a Bible study class one of the leaders told an extremely hateful racist joke, and I decided to go back to dancing, the occasional sip of single-malt scotch and listening to jazz.
p.s. in case you didn't see it on my post, dear Kabu, it's ok with me if you want to copy the pink hats poem to your FB page.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 19, 2017 at 5:43 PM
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We could go to the show on Saturday, but never on a Sunday. We were not allowed to sew on Sunday even if it was just mending a seam coming apart. We were though allowed (compelled) to wash and dry the dishes after our big family Sunday meal.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 19, 2017 at 3:47 PM
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Re:
yes there was that too in the towns.
posted by
Kabu
on March 19, 2017 at 3:39 PM
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Re:
tee hee I lived for a few years in the suburbs in Sydney with a lot of bushland around. We called it the Sunday chorus...in our case chainsaws.
posted by
Kabu
on March 19, 2017 at 3:38 PM
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I remember those times but it is more retail related
posted by
Annicita
on March 19, 2017 at 2:59 PM
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I think that tradition continues as I get fairly annoyed when the neighbor's even think about mowing the lawn on a Sunday morning. 
posted by
-blackcat
on March 19, 2017 at 2:51 PM
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