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Dear Reader,
It looks like I am not the only person who still enjoys wearing an apron. Thanks for sharing your apron stories with me.
From my Email Bag:
"Suzanne, I am an apron collector too. We traveled a lot when we lived overseas and it was so easy to buy my souvenir apron: run in to a department store of any city, buy an apron and throw it in my backpack. What wonderful memories I have of our travels because of aprons. I also wear them. On Thanksgiving day, I have one for each of the female guests in our home that she can wear as she helps me prepare dinner. I save a see-through netted apron for my one sis-in-law who is a Methodist minister and tell her to wear something sexy. It always makes us giggle like we're in junior high, doing something naughty. I love aprons. Regards,"--Marilyn Grinnell
"Your column this morning made me smile. I remember my mom's aprons--she had quite a few. It reminded me that somewhere I had seen a picture of her in one of her aprons--so I went searching on my archive and found one! I'm going to start looking for a few aprons of my own! Thanks for sharing with us--I miss my mom so much and it brought back some wonderful memories!"--Susan Tucker
"Your aprons remind me of my wonderful Granny who always wore an apron. She lived with us and took care of me while my Mother worked. I loved her dearly. Thanks for the memory."--Mary M. Smith
"The picture of the aprons brought back memories of my mother. She was a farmer's wife who did lots of cooking (long ago, she cooked on a stove that burned coal or wood). She always wore an apron because she didn't have many clothes and wanted to keep them clean. Later in life, she sewed many fancy aprons and sold them. Since she was adept at embroidery, tatting, crocheting and knitting, she used many of these techniques to embellish the aprons. She made a utilitarian apron for me which I still use."--Chris Budd
"I love your aprons! I can smell the apple pie baking in the oven, the warm smells of cinnnamon and apple. I am a messy cook, so the apron all the way to the left looks like it would give me maximum coverage. And it reminds me of one my grandmother used to wear when she baked. Thanks for offering up a warm kitchen and a good friend every morning."--Mary Clark
And then there's author Marshall Cook, who's decided after reading my apron column that....
"I gotta remember that about aprons. I could reform my behavior a whole lot if I wore aprons."
There's still time to enter my apron give away. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/695pdh
To read the original apron column, go to: http://tinyurl.com/699cng
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
*This month's Penguin Classic book is: The Lost Estate by Henri Alain-Fournier. To start reading and enter the free Penguin Classic's Drawing. Go to:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/bc/v.cfm?L=drclass&V=Q1AFEFEEF19E&c=CLASSICS
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