CENTRAL AIR?????

Since yesterday I wrote about Central Heating, I thought today I will write about our "central air" when I was growing up.

We did not have electricity until I was in 7th or 8th grade, so you know there was no central air, unless you took in consideration that wind might blow between the cracks of the windows/house.
I don't think our house was insulated very much, if any, and during the summer months the wood/burning cook stove was always fired up. My mother canned and cooked up a storm during these summer months. You can imagine the heat that this created. And to top it all off, she closed the windows when she got her canned produce out of the boiling canner, so that any breeze would not break the glass containers. After working so hard to can the produce, she didn't want to chance a breakage.

I will write another day about canning more in detail. During the summer, many times we would sleep by the door to get a wisp of breeze. In the 30's the summers were extremely hot, land parched, and without insulation and the cook stove roaring to provide meals for the family, you can imagine the heat that built up in the house. Sometimes, we would even take our mattress outside to get a breathe of air so we could sleep.

When we talk about the "good ole days", we have to take this in consideration. Many things during these years were good, because we learned "VALUES". Something that seems to be in short supply in todays society. We learned that hard work and how to improvise and make do and not expect others to do what we can do for ourselves.

I am so thankful that we have an air conditioned home. However, we were happy with what we had, as others weren't quite so fortunate in the depression years.

Wisdom for the day--Plan as though you'll be living for a century; live as though you'll be leaving today.