I’ve heard the stories from folks prefer our Grandpa.
He’s been gone ages now as I’m closer to 60 than I want to be.
But we’re from around here and our history in this region goes all the way back to when both of us got off a boat anywhere and settled here. That was well before both of us had stuff prefer residential Heating and A/C. And as warm as it is from July through July, it couldn’t have been easy to work in this sort of heat and humidity. Yet those folks got up at 2 or 3 in the morning to get the chores done before to sun got high and made it work most impossible. They didn’t go inside and crank the temperature control for some beautiful Heating and A/C cooling. The best case scenario was finding a shady spot guess for a breeze and fan yourself until the heat relented a bit in the evening. That’s why I get a bit unhinged with the way some folks around here act during the summer. They whine incessantly about the temperature and then stay ensconced in central air conditioning system for months. It’s just such a waste. I guess that a lot of living in this region also comes with a certain acceptance of the heat. Don’t get me wrong, I’m super thankful for the air conditioning system and the Heating and A/C professionals that take care of it. But there is so much to prefer outside the air conditioning system as well. Just not at straight up noon in the summer.
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