Hot weather. Over at Meryl's "Beach Boomer Bulletin" blog, she recalls summers before air conditioning.

Yep, i remember those past summers as well - and those nights, where it too hot to sleep, that wet-rag nonsense can (expletive) stay in the past too.  Not even a fan in the room either, to blow around the humid air - my parents simply didn't have the money.  That happens when there's x-number of kids, while household income is x-number.  As for those quiver-fulls, is it any big wonder that as soon as a significant percentage of the children grow up, they are so out. of. there!  Sad thing is: many want nothing to do with the Bible, church - and most importantly, Jesus Christ.

Anyway, rant over.  Am very very grateful for the window ac unit in the upstairs bedroom.  Living in an old house, the walls are rather thick, so for the most part, the house doesn't normally get terribly hot.   But there are those strings of 90-ish days and upper 70-ish to 80-ish nights, where the ac provides cool sleeping refuge.  

This hot weather raises two questions.  Have an answer for the first one.  How did old/er people survive the heat, prior to ac?  Answer:  Many didn't.  Guess that's why, in the "good ole days" people conked out in their late 50s or early 50s.  Second question basically has me wondering.  

What's up with all the black (polyester) clothing?   Yesterday, while in the grocery store parking lot, yet another woman was wearing all black.  Oh yeah, so glad her vehicle is new-ish, and that her ac works.  Mine doesn't - and have no desire to shell out half a grand to have it fixed.  The manually-operated windows work ;)  Another smart way to combat the heat is to simply wear light colored cotton...uhm, that's if you can find light-colored cotton.

Perhaps, there's a correlation between black recycled-coke-bottle sales and central ac sales.  All's i know is, another blogger, Murr Brewster, over at murrbrewster.blogspot, made a resounding point about ac sucking up resources.  No, i do not ride the global-warming hobby-horse.  However, there's plenty of Scriptures that tell us to be mindful of the things we consume.  In short, there's way more to gluttony than simply reaching for a second slice of pizza.

Yep, the pizza-sermon was on another blog. Don't think it's active any longer - one of those female red-pill hangers-on.  Can still recall, from the very secular - and VERY judgy (surprised? :) post, "more than one slice of pizza is too many."   Gimmee a break!  Never mind, while i like pizza, pizza sure doesn't like me :/ ... probably has to do with sub-standard ingredients - which is about everywhere in the convenience food industry.  But that's for another post.