Byron bought this land with a little shack on it  and built it into a home for the family.  A coal cooking range was in the north west corner of the kitchen.  In the morning the house was very cold until the range was lit and burning for a while.  If company came a fire was lit in the coal stove in the front room.  The stove was in the north east corner.  Eventually they did get a furnace and an electric range.  The old coal stove was moved to the shanty and only fired  up when Grandma made soap or sometimes when she made ketchup.
          Once a week was watering turn so water was run down through ditches in the garden then flooded onto the lawn.  The running water would accumulate soil at the end of the flower garden.  Ever few weeks many loads of soil were dug up from the end of the garden, hauled in wheelbarrows to the top top (east) end of the garden ans scattered there.  Grandma would work in the garden dressed in and old house dress and several; pair of old nylon hoes pulled over one another to protect her legs.
           Raspberries and blackberries were picked every few days.  Fresh berries were part of most summer time meals and bottled berries and fruit for most winter meals.  She made a pickled corn relish, pickled cucumbers in dill and sweet, homemade bread, and cookies.
          As grand kids came in from the screened porch they would turn left to find grandmas treat.  We were allowed to have a treat each time we came to visit.   In the first bottom cupboard she kept a round metal box with a tight fitting metal lid and in the box were homemade Cinnamon roll cookies, sugar cookies with a mint melted inside, or other cookies.
          At meals the table was in the south west corner of the kitchen.  On the table was homemade bread, jam, raspberries,  corn relish, fresh vegetables in season (cooked beets and greens, Swiss chard, carrots, radishes, pees, new potatoes), fried chicken.  They would have us save a few nice pieces of chicken "In case visitors dropped by."
          Down the stairs near to the screen porch and shanty, then to the right, under the shanty was a root cellar filled with bottles fruits, vegetables, and great crocks of a mixture of vinegar, salt, spices, and pickling cucumbers.
          Down the stairs to the left was grandpa's room, the only place grandma would allow him to keep his treasures such as maps, photographs, rocks, a windup phonograph player, world war I book of medicinal herbs, a cot, grandpa's black stetson hat, etc.
          Memorial day was a big event that was prepared for days in advance.  Peonies, lilacs, and flags (flowers) were cut. arranged into vases, then delivered to the Logan Cemetery.  Flowers were put on the graves of Rulon (Emeline and Byron's child that died at eleven days old) and many other relatives.
          The Crookstons would drive around town to pay bills which would save on stamps.  When shopping at the, Grandma would take coupons in and get just what was on special.  Grandpa would wait outside the store, when ask why he never went in he said, "I spend less money if I don't go in."  They would save bits of string, rolled up neatly into a ball, tucked in a drawer until needed.  Grandpa would wear mismatched socks and say,  "I have another pare just like them at home."  I think he wore whatever socks he could find to save money.