Reply #6: I'm so durned old as to remember before we even had electric [View All]

some of my earliest memories was watching them dynamite the holes for the electric poles, my brother and I would trudge alone behind the workers gathering up the copper wire they used to set the charges off with, made all kinds of things out of that copper wire too. One of my biggest accomplishments then was a telegraph and we used the top two wires on the fence so we could have communications to our cabin we, my bro and I, built of logs we cut down with an axe and crosscut saw, the saw btw we cut the wood our family cooked and heated with. Mom never learned the morse code but she would rattle the keys on the telegraph to let us know when she wanted us to come home. Yep them was the days, I remember them clearly
peace to all