Oh my, this made me belly laugh. Thanks so much for writing this. Having grown up in farm country in Pennsylvania, I kept hearing and seeing my Nana say, “What, were you born in a barn?”, as we children ran in and out of the door and refused to close it tightly, thereby allowing all manner of flies, gnats and bees just the small amount of egress needed to infest the kitchen!

Thanks for the article. And for an awfully sweet memory.