Making Bricks

Threshing oats was a dirty, labor intensive operation in the 1940s,
that is if  children did not burn down your oat field before harvest!

     Bricks seemed like simple things or so we thought based on our lessons at school.  It was nearing the end of a hot, drowsy summer.  My brother and I were in the lower grades but our younger sister would not start school for another year.  We were all bored.