Even during her childhood, she had accepted the adult responsibilities and endless chores of their mushroom farm on Dremen.

I was already wearied by the long winter and the simple but endless chores of farm life.

She had thought even their endless chores seemed preferable to the boredom she'd known.

Instead, she returned to a dirty house where she was subjected to endless chores.

"From a car window all those family farms look picturesque, but when you're living it, it can be endless chores," he said.

But the endless chores and long hours of the farmer's life were the reason both his grandfather and uncle rebuffed him as a partner, he said.

At Harbor House, officials say, processing the paperwork to produce its $1.7 million budget is aan endless chore.

The stories he tells go back to his days on his father's farm in Maryland, one of 17 children doing endless chores.

Until these endless chores devolved on me, I did not fully appreciate just how demanding the profession was.

Ms. Ross's Evie is a strong, practical woman, not afraid to get her face and hands dirty doing endless chores.