[GH85Carrera]

I often am astonished of my parents and my grandparents and what they survived. My grandparents and my wife's grandparents survived the dust bowl days of no rain, and 100+ temperatures and the blowing dust. No running water unless you pumped the hand pump for water. No electricity to be found.

Now imagine a house or a cabin like wooden structure, no electricity at all, it is 110 outside and the house feels like your attic or storage shed in the back yard. If you open the windows the house fills up with dirt.

Then mom needs to cook dinner and she has to light the wood stove to have heat to cook. And not just for a few days, but an entire decade! Every summer was just hell. Imagine trying to survive in that heat. People were just tougher back then I guess. The wimps moved to California.

We did not live in an air conditioned house until I was in the 11th grade. Not one of the 11 different schools I went to was air conditioned. I can remember sweat dripping from my nose on a test and making it impossible to write an answer on the paper at my school in San Marcos, TX