Keeping the Home Fires Lit

While daddy were away (we found out later he were in Europe) me and Mama kept the home fires burning. They had what they called rationing what meant you couldn't just go to the store and buy things like sugar, canned food, and coffee. You had to have a ration book with little tickets in it for buying those kind of things. When you run out of tickets, you had to do without what ever that ticket were for. Lucky for us we was used to not buying a lot from the grocery store. We always had a garden and grandpa run a sugar cane mill (with a mule walking round and round making the works in the middle grind up the cane and give us good syrup.) We had bees for honey and plenty of fruit trees on the place. The only thing we run out of sometimes was gasoline. So we stayed home a lot more and walked places what was no more than three or four miles off.
Tomorrow: Who Stayed Home