The summer days are getting hotter and hotter. More humid and I'm glad to be inside.That set me to thinking back to 1936. It was hot-very hot-and getting hotter. Absolutely no rain, no crops and no promising future. My mother was expecting her 5th child.
She was 39 at this time.
Joyce was 13--Wallace was 12-- and Lois and I were 8. We had NO electricity -so NO fan or No air conditioning. It must have been trying for everyone.
We girls would sleep across the bed (yes, beds. We had 2 beds in the room and 3 girls), so that we could be near the windows and get as much cool as possible during the night.
But poor mom.. I can remember she would rest at every noon and try and stay cool by lying down on the linoleum floor. Not a bed or sofa, but the linoleum floor , trying to stay as cool as possible. Can you imagine that?
This was late July and Aug. Dear Harriet, was born Sept. 17- 1936.
3 comments:
NO, can't imagine what that would be like. I do say often that it would not have been me moving across the country in a covered wagon with nothing and knowing I would never see my people again. I am a wimp and spoiled also.
It had to be wicked awful hot. Did you kids have a creek anwhere near that you could swim in?
I can't imagine at all - I am hot right now and I'm sitting inside the air conditioning - talk about spoiled - WOW - and no I am NOT pregnant either - just HOT!!
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