Grandparents on My Father's Side

I wrote a paper about my grandmother on my mother's side. I mentioned how she had her own business, a bar, and she had plenty of money for her grandchildren. Now I want to show you that it is true my life was like two sides of a coin. On my father's side, my grandparents were very country and taught me how to adapt to country living.
My grandparents lived in Converse, LA on about 20 acres of land. They went to the store for very little because they raised what they needed to eat. They had a large garden and they had farm animals like cows, horses, pigs, and chickens. They had an old smokehouse to hold the meat from the animals that my grandfather put to death. I mean I've seen him wring the neck of a chicken and watch it run around with no head until it died. I've seen him take the life of a pig or cow for meat. He also went hunting during hunting season so we could have deer, squirrel, rabbit, and yes, even raccoon for meals. But we also had fresh milk from the cows, most of the time still warm, and we had fresh eggs from the chickens for every breakfast and we always had fresh vegetables from the garden. Entertainment for them was taking us to the rodeo on Saturday nights.
Not to say all of this to be morbid or anything. My grandparents were very loving and caring people that were raised to provide for themselves and their family like most farm families did in the older days. There are two things though that was hard for me to adjust to everytime I would spend time with them.
One of the things was that they had only a moderate set up for indoor plumbing. What I mean is that they had sinks in the kitchen to wash dishes but that was it. They had water pitchers on both the front and back porch that came from the rain barrels with a dipper for us to get a drink. They had a washtub hung up on the back of the house for us to take down, to take a bath. But they had no indoor restroom, so to take care of that my grandfather had two outhouses - one for the women and one for the men in different parts of his corrals for us to use. This was a true experience for me because everytime I had to use it I was worried about something coming up out of the hole to bite me. He also had chamber pots for us to use at night that we brought to our rooms and then emptied every morning.
The other thing that was kind of weird was how we sat down to eat each day at exactly the same time. We had breakfast at 6 am, lunch at noon, and dinner at 6 pm everyday and it was never pizza or burgers or any other fast foods. It was homecooked food prepared by my grandmother and any other women that happened to be home at the time - my aunts and my mother. Now here is what I had to adjust to. When I was at my grandparents, I never sat down with the women to eat. The way my grandfather had it was that the women did the cooking, and they had to have prepared two meats, at least two vegetables, and biscuits & cornbread. Once they completed preparing the meal and placing it on the table. Then they would have to go outside to the front porch as the men and boys sat down to eat. My father told me that I was fortunate to be able to sit with the men to eat because when he was a boy, he wasn't allowed to sit at the table with the men until he was 13 years old. Anyway after we finished eating, then the ladies came to the table to eat and once they finished they cleaned up the kitchen. I've always wondered what part of my heritage taught my grandfather this method. I even asked my father and he didn't know either.
All I know was that it felt as though I had gone back in time when I visited my grandparents on my father's side with all the farm fresh foods. I even had to help shell peas and cut okra and other garden chores. Then I would go to my grandparents on my mother's side and felt I had come back to a more realistic version of the 20th century. I have to say that I enjoyed both environments because it made me adaptable at an early age so I was just as comfortable on a farm as I was around a bar. I loved my grandparents and I wouldn't change anything about any of them or what they taught me.