I suspect that many of you are like me… I didn’t really have a good understanding or appreciation of what everyday life was like for our grandparents and our aunts and uncles while they were working on/for farms in the thumb for all the years before Martina and Valeriano were finally able to purchase a farm of their own. This enlightening piece by Uncle Dan gives all of us a much better look at life in the various places the family lived in.