Friday, January 28, 2011

82- AND The LATEST "SOCIAL" PHENOMENON?...."MOM CAVES"..."DAD CAVES", YEAH!....

A) 'K, what are they?  Ponder that "for a spell", as my late, very special paternal grandmother would say!
B) A "cave" is an actual physical place/space JUST for the Mom!...or Dad!...to have to themselves!  I know of several "Mom caves" for sewing!  A "Dad cave", I know of, is out in a small barn or SHED.
C) HISTORY?  There seems to have always been a special "cave" for men, I believe, but earlier on they were called "sheds"...outside.  My father and paternal grandfather had "sheds."  And women, when homes were two-story, or larger, had a special room just for them, often for the sewing machine.  Remember, times have a way of changing in our American society.
D) OK, then, what about the older-fashioned term called a "den"?   Would that room now be called a "family cave", for the 21st century?
E) "A place to...PIDDLE!"  I've used that term in an earlier blog.  Have you ever "piddled"?
F) ...maybe a bit more....

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