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19917. Magoseph - 8/1/2006 1:01:30 PM Hello, everyone,
Being the guest in my house was a feeling I enjoyed when the boys were small and the grandparents visited for a week around each holiday. Grandpa took over the boys and Grandma the kitchen. It was heavenly to be waited on and to go out in the evening without the kids. I was never able to trust any babysitters and therefore could not enjoy any outing if we had to get one. 19918. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 2:02:10 PM I can't believe that it's going to be 99 degrees in Hartford, CT today. That's so uncharasterically warm.
I spent a summer in the East coast when I was a teenager, also during a heatwave, and it was hotter than I could imagine. No air-conditioning in my uncle's home, either. 19919. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 3:46:30 PM I don't know how people survived in AR without air conditioning. Of course a lot of people didn't. The infant mortality rate, especially, was very high.
Too buggy to walk to it (and several unmarked wells that are just holes in the ground now), but we drove by a homeplace (no evidence of it exists, except a cemetery you have to walk through woods to see) with a two-story log house, where a couple lost all but one of their thirteen children. Only one lived to adulthood. Most of the older people around here have lost siblings or children and rarely mention them.
So I guess we think we're less hardy than our forbears, but maybe we're not--we'd just be the dead ones if we lived back then. 19920. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 3:52:19 PM I have thought about that often, Arky.
Imagine you and I being pioneer women doing all of the manual labor in a corset and long dress in this heat! Ugh. 19921. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:01:13 PM Hahaha!
Of course people made other adjustments in the way they built houses, etc, but there's no escaping the humidity without ac. And out here they didn't get electricity until after WWII, so they didn't even have electric fans until then. 19922. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:14:44 PM I wouldn't have lasted. Well, maybe I would have. I have some deep Southern roots on my mom's mom's side. My cousins live out in the boonies of Tennessee and do not have air-conditioning. I spent several summers in Mississippi and would always have to stay in TN, too. We would sleep on the linoleum floors with fans or the windows open. 19923. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:35:36 PM I'm all Southern on all sides, but I don't think I'd have made it. For one thing I was a small baby--not premature, but barely over 5lbs. We didn't have ac when we lived in Lubbock, but it was so dry a "cooler" worked just fine. And it got cold almost every night. 19924. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:46:43 PM I wouldn't have had kids if I lived 150 years ago. Medicine has come a loooooooooooooooong way! 19925. judithathome - 8/1/2006 7:22:22 PM Go over to News and Current Events to see why Bush is the way he is... 19926. Ulgine Barrows - 8/2/2006 7:16:07 AM Duh, whatever it might cost? Macnas I expected better advice from you.
Hello. She's asking any villian to check her wiring.
Rick. Tell her that whackazoid is setting her up for a fire, and get the shit beat out of yourself after she mentions it to him.
Honestly, I'd say your job is done when you get the kids out of the fire. You are a neighbor, that's what neighbors do is save kids, cuz the adults have chosen their own path.
I don't feel tardy. 19927. Ulgine Barrows - 8/2/2006 7:36:37 AM 19924. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:46:43 PM
I wouldn't have had kids if I lived 150 years ago. Medicine has come a loooooooooooooooong way!
you might want to reconsider your phrasing.
such as, I'm glad I didn't die giving birth 150 years ago and I'm so glad there are so many more nets to help a woman in childbirth.
heh, yeah, you wouldn't have had kids.
You wouldn't have had a choice.
I am SO glad I did. 19928. Ulgine Barrows - 8/2/2006 8:18:13 AM sorry.....gotta post this
Gonna buy a fast car
Put on my lead boots
And take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money
But I'll still be alive 19929. Magoseph - 8/2/2006 1:48:59 PM Hello, everybody!
19930. Jenerator - 8/2/2006 2:07:32 PM Ulgine,
If phrasing it your way makes more sense to you, that's fine. The bottom line is I am glad to be alive today rather than 150 years ago.
Imagine having your period back then.(hence the phrase 'on the rag')
Or a cavity back then.
NO thanks!
19931. judithathome - 8/2/2006 3:16:20 PM But since you'd have no comparison, you'd probably have done just fine. Sure, knowing the ease we have now in living, I'd not want to return to the past but if I didn't know life could be like it is today, I'd have been fine with it back then.
The slow paced life when even hearing from people took days, not seconds...the freshly grown food and unpolluted air...the little things that brought happiness and the beauty of undeveloped land.
19932. Jenerator - 8/2/2006 4:12:13 PM Judith,
I wouldn't have been fine, I would have probably died from an abcessed tooth, tetanus, or child birth. At 35, I would have been an old maid, too!;-) 19933. judithathome - 8/2/2006 6:58:59 PM Oh, I seriously doubt that...by 35, you'd have probably been a widow twice over. 19934. Jenerator - 8/2/2006 10:42:21 PM Lol!
;-) 19935. lemwalker - 8/3/2006 2:31:33 AM
I live near a small town. One of the young Marines killed last week was from here. Parents born here too. It is all so sad. 19936. jexster - 8/3/2006 4:10:00 AM EARTHQUAKE!!!!
My bet...5.2
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