GrammaChar said:............................. I'm sure they were manned by sunburned farmers in bib overalls wearing ratty hats who worked hard all day. I'm a bit of a romantic....
and bonnets (with brims made of cigar boxes) and always, always wore long sleeves. Only the neck and nose of a man was sometimes exposed due to the angle of the sun. When I spent time with my grandparents and worked outside with them, they thoroughly disapproved of the lack of a hat and the wish for a tan. My parents generation wasn't as strict. They knew instinctively what a younger generation has ignored - direct sun isn't good for the skin.« Return to the thread "using junk in the garden"
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