Ann Maria Bailey Sharp l Ann Maria EasterBailey Sharp Evans l Mary Sainsbury Visser l Steven Visser l Me Remembering Her Grandmother by Ann Jane Evans Sainsbury I would go through my Grandmother's door yard both going and coming from school each day. I would go to the Orchard and get apples and pears to eat on my way to school and on my way home I would stop nearly every day to see how she was feeling. She was getting a little feeble, and Oh, I did like a piece of bread and butter with some of her homemade jam. She was a good cook. I loved her very much. She taught me how to do many different things. She taught me how to darn my stockings, how to hem things by hand and a little knitting. When I was a small girl she made lots of my dresses and she did it all by hand. She didn't have a sewing machine...I remember the first butter I ever churned was for my Grandmother. We put the cream in a large crock jar. Then would beat the cream with a bunch of sticks. We would find some straight, thin sticks about the size of a lead pencil and about 18 inches long. We scraped all the green bark off of them, washed them good and clean, then tied them at the top with a strong string about fourinches down. Then we would let them get good and dry so they would spread apart at the bottom like a little brush. We would beat the cream with it and soon we would have butter.