8 Days Until Trek - Daily Chores
On the Trail, everyone had work to do. Much of trail life was walking or riding; moving toward Zion. But in the mornings and evenings when the pioneers were settling in for the night or preparing for another day's travel, there was work to be done; and fun to be had. To have a memorable Trek experience, don't sit back and let others do the work and have the fun. Throw yourself into you family. Help your Trek "parents." Support your Trek "siblings." Be a doer, not an observer. And HAVE FUN.
"Pioneers who left reminiscences of the trail dwelled far
more frequently on the good times than the monotonous and typical aspects of
travel. Daily domestic chores were performed as soon as the wagons stopped. Men
(and some women) unhitched their teams and took them for water. Besides
cooking, baking, and laundry, mothers crammed in other responsibilities: giving
someone a hair cut, pulling a tooth, nursing a new baby, soothing a sick child.
"Young girls did their share, mending clothes, milking cows,
or fetching water. Children with sacks in hand or aprons, rushed for buffalo
chips or twigs, went bathing or fishing, and scampered over wagon tongues and
around the wheels playing tag or other games with an ever present neighbor.
Occasionally a baptism occurred and there were constant administrations for the
injured or sick. Men and boys looked for green meadows for their livestock. Sometimes
they had to herd cattle miles out on the prairie to find pasturage."
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