After breakfast, Roy and Margie draw the water needed for the day's cooking and washing. Then they walk two miles to their one-room school house, carrying their books and lunch pails. While the children are at school, Father and Sadie plow the rest of the garden. The garden's tomatoes. As he plows, Father hopes the weather this year will be good and that the government agents will bring him some more fertilizer for his crops.
Mother builds a fire under the big black pot filled with water and washes the clothes.
Some she scrubs on a washboard. Then she hangs them on a line to dry. She puts a big pot of pinto beans on the wood stove to cook all day. Later, when the clothes are dry, she irons them with a flat iron that she heats up over the fire and reheats after every few garments. After they walk home from school, Roy and Margie work on their lessons.