It was a beautiful, sunny, Texas Summer hot Sunday day today. I was truly grateful for my central air-conditioner keeping me comfortable cool. I remember my grade school classrooms feeling like a sauna in the humid Flour Bluff Summer heat. We did not have air conditioned classrooms till 6th grade. Those Summer days when temperatures soared into the 90's and himidity was likely around 60% retaining information was at a minimum while day dreaming, passing notes, or any other sort of distraction was the norm. I think us little kids probably suffered some degree of heat exhaustion daily. Not to mention riding an overcrowded yellow school bus, 3 to a seat, asiles filled with the older kids standing and the too small windows mostly all shut tight, home during the hottest part of the day. Most of us had box fans in our windows at home. Air conditioning was a rare luxury.
Somehow we all survived. We were miserable but we did not know any different. Of course we played in the ditches, swam in ponds and when we got thirsty drank from the nearest garden hose. My childhood before air conditioned classrooms and hand sanitizer was great! Maybe I need to rethink the need for all this 'bought' air and I will seriously consider pulling out the old box fan...as soon as Fall rolls around. Have a comfortable, cool week. kisses
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