-Primal Troy
My grandparents on my dad’s side lived on a 100 acre farm near Whitney, Texas for most of their lives. They never owned a car or an air conditioner, had a wood burning stove in the living room and didn’t get indoor plumbing installed until the 1960s. They raised nearly everything they needed right there on that farm and about once a month or so they might get a ride into town from one of the family members or a neighbor to stock up on some things like sugar, flour, etc. My grandma liked to get saltine crackers which she called soda crackers and my grandpa always hid a stash of butterscotch candies under his pillow. They weren’t rich folks by the standards our modern, materialistic society measures wealth but they were the richest people I ever knew because they had their freedom and independence to a degree most people today can only dream of. They were self sufficient.
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totally into this. we need a local study group for this. like, asap.
I hear ya! As soon as we can get some people on board that’s exactly what I would like to see happen.
No air conditioner, how did they manage the hot August days, especially ones like last year?
Well, they did have box fans and I remember grandma carrying around a spray bottle of water that she would sometimes mist herself and grandpa with when it was especially hot as they sat under the fans. For the most part on hot summer days the chores got done early in the morning so nobody had to be out in the heat. They had a screened in porch on the back of the house that tended to stay cooler in the late day too. Having grown up without air conditioning, that generation was just used to it. I remember my aunt and uncle from Mexia who were the same age had a breezeway down the middle of their house to catch cool drafts in the summer time. They used to build houses that way back before a/c and position them so the sun didn’t heat the house so much. Big trees and tin roofs helped too. Of course, this is also the generation that had the good sense to build root and storm cellars.