Sundays were for Visitors and Visiting

Georgiagranny said:
I remember now why we didn't go visiting on Sundays in the winter. The streets weren't plowed on Sundays. (This in an area where a normal sNOwfall was between 250-300 inches a season.) Our visiting was done after supper during the week.

@Fyrefox On Easter and Christmas, our priest would greet the congregation with "Good morning all you Easter lilies (or Christmas roses, depending on the occasion)!"

We didn't go anywhere to shop on Sundays because there were blue laws that prohibited stores from opening on Sunday, except for groceries.
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Our streets are still not ploughed..Sundays or any other day... in 2022
 

I enjoyed Sunday when I was growing up, I went for a Sunday drive with my Dad, he filled the car with petrol on the Friday the petrol stations were closed at the weekends, come tea time and Aunty and Uncle would arrive Aunty always brought a home baked sponge filled with jam and iced with passionfruit icing, it was yum.
These days it's shop until you drop, it's no wonder family life has taken a dive over the years and it's not for the better.
 
Bellbird said:
I enjoyed Sunday when I was growing up, I went for a Sunday drive with my Dad, he filled the car with petrol on the Friday the petrol stations were closed at the weekends, come tea time and Aunty and Uncle would arrive Aunty always brought a home baked sponge filled with jam and iced with passionfruit icing, it was yum.
These days it's shop until you drop, it's no wonder family life has taken a dive over the years and it's not for the better.
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For quite a while here people have been campaigning for stores to remain closed on a Sunday so people could return to a family life.. but it will never happen. It's all too late.. even if the stores were to close, people will shop online.. the kids and teens will spend most of their time on fakebook.. or whatever is trending at the time, people will go to the gym, play sports.. go to the pub etc.. once the door has been opened and the horse has bolted there's no locking it again... unfortunately
 

AAAAAGH for the good old days, once I could drive, I spent every Sunday at my husband"s parents. There was always a good meal and you never know who you might meet there. This continued when we were married, so about 30 years until my husband passed. My FIL passed and we still went there to see Mom. Also for every holiday, every family birthday, we were there. It was wonderful. My MIL died 9 days after my husband. I only got to see her one time after my husband passed. She was already in a coma at that point. I just think she gave up when my husband passed. Out of 5 children, my husband was the one that was constant presence. We did Sunday. as normal and he went twice a week to put out her trash, clean the pool and anything else she needed. One of the reasons I fell in love with this boy, his family and his dedication to them.
 
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