Smile, it is almost Friday!

Now living in the country is not like living in the city.  When the house is cold, you just turn the thermostat up and the heat comes on, and the house gets warmer, the entire house.  Now we did not realize that in the county you had to go outside and get your heat.  What I mean by that is you have to go outside and get wood to put on or in a fire to keep warm.  Now a fire in a fire place or a wood stove feels so good. I wonder did those fumes give me MS hmmm.   The only problem is that it only warms that room.  No, really, it only warms that room, and the rest of the house is still freezing cold. So you see going to the country in the winter was not all that fun.  When you talk about going down south, people think of warmth, but in the winter, as old people would say, "It is as cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra."  Now all I know is that a brass bra seems to me like it would be cold up against anybody's skin.   Now I have no idea what that means, but that is what I have always heard.  In both of my grandmother's homes they had wood stoves.  It kept the rooms that the stoves were in toasty and warm.  In my mom's parent's house, the wood stove was located in the dinning room kitchen area.  So the kitchen and dinning room were always warm.  Now when you went down the hall to the bathroom and the bedrooms, it was like walking into a freezer.  In my dad's parents house it was no better.  The wood stove was located in the living room, but the bedrooms and the bathrooms were freezer cold.  But both grandmas' made quilts, that kept you warm in the winter, and you sweated off the excess pounds in the summer.  One night I asked my grandpa, why they not have heat in these rooms.  He told me that when he built that house, they did not have those kinds of things.  Instead we have quilts!  There were nights when I wanted to sleep in my fake converses to keep my feet warm!  We made it.  We took tub baths, they did not have showers, the tub baths were scorching hot, had to be, and the bathroom was so cold.  I would have rather not taken a bath.  The dirt on my body from playing on the farm, probably would have kept me warm.  Now this was during the winter months, but we still got just as dirty.   But my pops always said, "Do not go in the bathroom, throw that water up run under it, and call it a bath!"  To me if the water slightly hits you, it's a bath!  That is what all kids think, you did not necessarily need a wash cloth and soap, when taking a bath, all you need is water right?  In my mind I was thinking, "It is winter time, there is no heat in the back of grandma's house, we should not be made to take baths.  We do not stink that bad, it is to cold for us to stink, and we used deodorant that morning, and as an added bonus we used some of grandma's Avon powder.  So boys and girls what is the moral of this story; there was no thermostat to turn the heat up, therefore no heat, so no sweating therefore no bath needed, because, it was to cold for us to stink, right?  I guess in the country they had not yet discovered thermostats in every room, and it was a fire hazard to put wood stoves in every room.   We lived to far out for fire trucks, and well water was scarce.  As old people would say, "well water was like hen teeth, and a hen aint got no teeth."  Or do they? I just wanted grandpa to turn the heat up!  Getting wood off of the wood pile as a chore I never looked forward to.  Because of those foreign spiders again.  They just did not look like your regular run of the mill spiders.  So I had a choice freeze, or fight the spiders.  To make matters worst, grandma and grandpa never had any bug spray.  They would say, "Baby just knock them out of the way".  I would think to myself, you got to be kidding me!  I aint touching or getting near those creature.  In my mind, I was thinking; someone is secretly feeding those things because they are just too big!  It just is not natural!  I will just use more quilts.