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Neto wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:08 pm OK. I won't hold you'll in "suspenders" anymore. Depending on the meaning of "swartz" in that context, something I cannot judge, that may be the German counterpart of the English version I always heard. Or else the original DID say "black" (or 'dark'), and someone back along in my family changed it, because my mom's family especially is on the dark complected, black hair side.

So here's the saying"

"If you sing at the table you'll get a lazy wife."

So finding myself in the situation of having completed nearly all of my preparation for going out as a missionary, and still being single, I said to my mom, "I'm almost ready to start singing at the table."
She asked me why, and I said, Maybe a lazy one is better than none at all. Then she suggested that I'd be better off to wait longer, and that's the way it worked out. (At least in my case.)

I cannot think of any more to post, so hoping that someone else will. (I want to not keep thinking of the fact that tanks belonging to an invading army are passing through my ancestral villages in the Moltschna colony area. Possibly also through the Cortitsa colony, because that area received greater pre-invasion bombing than did the Molotschna area.)

Biblical Anabaptist wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:20 pm

Neto wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:08 pm OK. I won't hold you'll in "suspenders" anymore. Depending on the meaning of "swartz" in that context, something I cannot judge, that may be the German counterpart of the English version I always heard. Or else the original DID say "black" (or 'dark'), and someone back along in my family changed it, because my mom's family especially is on the dark complected, black hair side.

So here's the saying"

"If you sing at the table you'll get a lazy wife."

So finding myself in the situation of having completed nearly all of my preparation for going out as a missionary, and still being single, I said to my mom, "I'm almost ready to start singing at the table."
She asked me why, and I said, Maybe a lazy one is better than none at all. Then she suggested that I'd be better off to wait longer, and that's the way it worked out. (At least in my case.)

I cannot think of any more to post, so hoping that someone else will. (I want to not keep thinking of the fact that tanks belonging to an invading army are passing through my ancestral villages in the Moltschna colony area. Possibly also through the Cortitsa colony, because that area received greater pre-invasion bombing than did the Molotschna area.)

I don't think I ever heard that proverb. I asked my wife and she said they were not allowed to sing at the table but was never given the reason. It would, however, sound like something my mother-in-law or her mother would say. My wife's grandmother had a lot of strange superstitions such as not opening an umbrella in the house.

silentreader wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:27 pm

Biblical Anabaptist wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:20 pm

Neto wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:08 pm OK. I won't hold you'll in "suspenders" anymore. Depending on the meaning of "swartz" in that context, something I cannot judge, that may be the German counterpart of the English version I always heard. Or else the original DID say "black" (or 'dark'), and someone back along in my family changed it, because my mom's family especially is on the dark complected, black hair side.

So here's the saying"

"If you sing at the table you'll get a lazy wife."

So finding myself in the situation of having completed nearly all of my preparation for going out as a missionary, and still being single, I said to my mom, "I'm almost ready to start singing at the table."
She asked me why, and I said, Maybe a lazy one is better than none at all. Then she suggested that I'd be better off to wait longer, and that's the way it worked out. (At least in my case.)

I cannot think of any more to post, so hoping that someone else will. (I want to not keep thinking of the fact that tanks belonging to an invading army are passing through my ancestral villages in the Moltschna colony area. Possibly also through the Cortitsa colony, because that area received greater pre-invasion bombing than did the Molotschna area.)

I don't think I ever heard that proverb. I asked my wife and she said they were not allowed to sing at the table but was never given the reason. It would, however, sound like something my mother-in-law or her mother would say. My wife's grandmother had a lot of strange superstitions such as not opening an umbrella in the house.

You mean that's superstition?

Neto wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:08 pm "If you sing at the table you'll get a lazy wife."

Neto:
.. She asked me why, and I said, Maybe a lazy one is better than none at all. ..

If it rains on your wedding day, you will have a sloppy husband.

If you sweep the dirt under the rug, you will sweep your spiritual dirt under the rug as well.

If you don't clean the corners good, you will not keep the corners of your life clean either.

Shut your doors, your letting the heat out, you weren't born in a barn.

Grace wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:50 am
I could never figure out what the barn had to do with not closing doors.