57- AMERICAN T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N-S...CREATE YOUR OWN!!...BE ORIGINAL!!....

A) TRADITIONS!  Make it THE thing within your family and/or home to create your very own traditions...unwritten laws...customs...rituals and even lore!  Know someone who traditionally enjoys a cup of homemade eggnog on CHRISTMS Eve.  Hey, it's their TRADITION and belongs to...them!!
B) The "traditions" practice is special only to the individual or their friends or family.  THAT custom is what makes the practice unique....create your own.
C) Maternal grandparents, down on the farm, traditionally had their Sunday meal around 3:00pm.  Seemed like a parcel of their grown children and grandchildren were always there, together, during that big, main Sunday meal.  Grandmother liked to cook the old-fashioned way in her kitchen, with a wood stove!  One window looked out to the pasture all the way across to THAT mysterious wooden barn on the opposite hill!  Grandma Cline, as a weekly tradition, baked COOKIES, cakes and pies on Saturday mornings, keeping the cakes and pies on a shelf in her old walnut pie safe!  Cookies were kept snugly sealed in an equally old "warshed out" lard tin!  And quess who, when going to visit as a munchkin, would head immediately for the kitchen?
D) "Country words"...they were traditionally used around moi, this, in time, well-educated grandson.  "We'll go over to milK, DIRECTLY, to the barn...."  "C'mon and sit for a SPELL and swing...."
E) SWINGING ON THE FRONT PORCH and ROCKING in their dining room!  Willie and Carl, paternal grandparents, had these two TRADITIONS, among many, longer than this author can ever remember.  During the warmer months, after SUPPER, they would swing on their front porch up high on a hill that overlooked the countryside and the C&O tracks, until darkness approached.  Then, it was time to "GO TO BED WITH THE CHICKENS...."  During the cold months, after SUPPER, the two, side by side, would rock in the dining room....for some time.  Carl usually puffed on a 'Rum-cured Crook' cigar
F) Can you see and understand, now, how important TRADTIONS are on a small level, with individuals and families?
G) SUPPER....or DINNER?....more......