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Sharon I loved those wonderful memories of your root cellar ! Too me that is true wealth when you can produce and store food to sustain a family...all without running to the nearest grocery store ! That is one of the reasons I admire the Amish who make due without outside help. If we could all become more like that natural disasters would be a bit easier to survive, wouldn't they ? So called progress maybe really just makes us more dependent, I think sometimes.

My German grandmother had a basement that used to scare me like your root cellar. It was very dark and had these strange doors in the walls which I guess were built in cabinets.....I was too scared of what was behind those little doors to ever open them !! Never got over the fear of that basement !