Sore Just Thinking About It

"We canned. We made sauerkraut, and we froze--no we didn’t freeze peaches--we canned peaches, made apple sauce and, we ate all winter. We shelled butter beans and my fingernails now still get sore just thinking about how sore they used to get from during the summer time shelling butter beans and freezing butter beans, and string bean and, we just had huge gardens. And it wasn’t just my family, it was the family in the neighborhood but we were all relatives. And, and as I’ve gotten older, and I talk to some of my cousins now because our parents are gone, and found out that the same food we’re eating now it’s like...do you remember mother use to duh-duh-duh? Yeah my mother used to duh-duh-duh…"