98 Degrees here today, on Dr. Fahrenheit's scale. And they say it didn't break a record.......102 degrees, set back in 1940.
Global warming, my extra-warm and fuzzy backside!
Nowadays we run from our air conditioned Hupmobiles to the comfort of our air conditioned workplaces. Workday done, we run back to our cool cars.
From our driveways, we dash to our air conditioned homes.
Back to our growing up days.......our family never had A/C in our house. I can remember going to bed with perspiration flowing down the valley in my back, looking foward to turning on my window fan to draw in the cool night air from outside.
We survived.
I honestly don't remember the first house in our neighborhood to have air conditioning. I know my folks finally broke down and got a window unit sometime in the mid-70's. That was about the same time I got my first car with an air conditioner in it.
Can you imagine life now without an air conditioner?
Where's my Right Guard?
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I don't know how we survived without air conditioning; but I don't want to give it up that's for sure. We had a window air conditioner in BoMar when I was about in middle school. When we first moved there we had a mud yard and no trees. I was 5 and told my mom and dad they had said it would be a nice place...it wasn't! The summer was as you described, HOT HOT and HOTTER. Two bedroom house, living room, kitchen and bath. Just enough room to stew in your own juice. I remember hearing the German Band play at night in the summer when I went to bed with the window open; I think that was a diversion from the heat so I could sleep.
I remember the movie theater's signs with icicles advertising air conditioning, it looked so inviting. Air-conditioning and Popcorn..WOW!
We bought that air conditioner from Pat for $25 and left it in the house when we moved. for all I know it is still working
That's my Mom contributing here folks.
Thanks Mom!
An air conditioner for $25? Gasoline was probably selling for 50 cents a gallon, and we thought that was exorbitant!
Well, my point is, that air conditioner was purchased some 7 or so years after I had left that nest.
How many houses in that neighborhood have no air conditioner now?
Ferdy, you made me remember one other thing about summers in Indy.
One of the last times I stayed at my Grandmother’s, we sat on the porch looking at a clear sky full of stars. The aroma of corn fields filled the air and the lightening bugs danced across the grass.
Then I went to sleep with the windows open, smelling the honeysuckle just outside and listening to the cows lowing softly from a nearby pasture.
The rooster's crowing and Mom's sing-song voice calling me to breakfast were the next things I remember.
Dang I miss that place! (and time!!)
I didn’t realize how lucky we were when I was growing up. Back off the road and surrounded by woods, our house was always about 20 degrees cooler than everywhere else.
Living at General Hospital during Nurses Training was quite an adjustment in many ways. We had a fan in the room but we had to open the window most of the summer and part of the winter (the radiator heat could be over-powering)
Having the window open didn’t necessarily make things cooler. City sounds of near-constant ambulance sirens and various activities in the Projects across the street made “comfortable” a relative condition.
A few years ago I was in San Antonio taking classes at one of the oldest hospitals. I just can’t imagine how awful it must have been before AC or even before electricity was generally available -- being sick and baking at the same time. Man oh Man! Just SHOOT me NOW!
Today, the weather man in Dallas is celebrating a “cold wave” since the temperature dipped to 98 yesterday evening. There was even a breeze!
Global warming? Can’t be true! I’m shivering
I remember sleeping as close to an open window as possible for any breath of air. The fans back then were anything but good, but we didn't know it.
I used to get poison ivy so easy and putting on the Caladryl and laying in wait with the least amount of clothes for relief that never came in the summer.
I would get it so badly, until one summer my uncle that worked for Indiana Bell and used to climb poles for them gave me some of the stuff they gave their employees, (Immune Ivy.) I finally found relief.awwwwww.
Didn't help with the heat though.
FYI-VK's
Hatchet has had a stroke...diagnosed at Cleveland Clinic. Stroke is called Wallenberg Syndrome, affects medulla in brain. Hopefully, with therapy and diet changes he will improve.
BO - Thanks for the info on Hatchet. Very sad news...he's way too young for this to happen to him!
Maybe PT can give us some positive news about this condition???
I'll keep looking for more info on VK.
Fly - I sent PT the email from Hatchett. Poor guy, he has been miserable; I hope he feels better soon.
Did you see I posted the name of the band? It is "Sir Winston and the Commons". Don't know about the drummer's carpal tunnel! :(
BO- I saw your "Sir Winston.." I've posted a comment on: "I Can See Clearly Now".
Too Bad about Hatchet! I sure hope he improves and soon!
Gotta run to Venice to see E. Seems like I run everywhere on my day off from Resort Prision!!! More Later...Take Care!
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