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I think I am safe in revealing this as the Statute of Limitations is probably up after 65 years, so here is a story from my childhood!
Got an email this morning about using milk as a fungicide on plants that have mild cases of fungus on them. At the top of the email, it showed the photo above, of some old style milk bottles in a wire carrier, that milkmen used to use when milk was delivered each morning to your house. Some of you reading this post won't have a clue about what I'm talking about as this just doesn't happen anymore!
Anyhow, it brought back lots of memories of when I was just a little kid, about 4 years old. I grew up in a small town in southern Idaho and the milkman delivered the milk to peoples back doors every morning. Milk wasn’t homogenized back then so the cream would rise to the top of the bottles when it sat for a short time. Well, I somehow acquired a taste for the cream...actually I still have cravings to buy a carton of half and half and drink it just as it is!
But back then, I would wake up when I heard the milkman leave the bottles of milk at our back door at about 5:00 in the morning and would get up, get dressed, quietly sneak out of the house and follow the milk mans route, and go to the neighbors back doors and take the paper lids off the milk bottles and suck the cream off the top of the milk bottles, put the paper lids back on and move on to the next house!
Eventually I would get caught in the act when someone would come out to get the milk and there I would be happily sucking the cream off the top of the milk. They would call my Mother to come and get me and I’d get punished…and my poor Mother would be so embarrassed! I was a slow learner however, or was it the taste of the cream that I just couldn’t give up, because after a few days there I would be again, drinking the cream off the top of the milk bottles early in the morning on a neighbors back porch!
Thanks for reading! Have a great day.
Ron, the plant man
