'bout back in the day...I mowed the yard yesterday...can the humidity be 200%...
Well it sure felt like it, man was it a scorcher...
I did my usual garden thing, knowing that the rains could no longer keep me out of it...beans were going crazy and the rhubarb is the biggest I've ever seen...
but you've heard the term...'sweat-hog'...
OMG...I was totally drenched, TOTALLY dripping with lil' rivers running torrents over every surface...GEESH...get me to the shower!!!
Can you imagine farming the land all day, building fences, caring for livestock, butchering livestock, traveling cross country in a wagon, then living in a tent city...
Which brings me to my point...showers...
Can you imagine what it was like back in the day...
Hollywood sure had us fooled, showing women with perfectly coiffed hair, beautifully pressed dresses, stuffed into fancy, flattering corsets...
can you imagine living in Florida and having to wear a corset and long skirts...
I can only imagine how miserable it would've been in the humidity...
eeeeeeeeee...
What conditions our ancestors lived with out on the plains, can you imagine...living in shacks, cramped quarters, VERY close to the person next to you...ewwww...
I don't know about you, but I was a lil' pig when I was a child, can you imagine having no tub or running water to wash your kids at the end of the day...
As rustic as you like to live, it's nothing like what they dealt with 'back in the day'...Washing clothes on a rock by a stream must've been a real luxury.
Imagine having your first pitcher pump installed in your house...
LUXURY!!!
So today as the temperature rises and I recover from the tornado siren that shot me straight outta bed at 4:15 this mornin',
I'm workin' in the AC today
and will enjoy the luxury of my shower at the end of it...
and will be thankful that I live in the now,
not 'back in the day'...
