But what simple fun they must have had back then.  It must have been very
cold though.  It's hard to imagine.

Vicki


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:11 PM
Subject: Cold Weather


> I can well remember growing up in Des Moines, Iowa.  The house we lived in
> had an upstairs but it was one of those upstairs built up against the
sides
> of the sloping roof.  We had no heat upstairs except what came through the
> register in each of the two bedrooms.  At night, during those cold winter
> Iowa nights, we slept with so many blankets, you could hardly breathe.  We
> also got to use the hot water bottle to keep our feet warm.  My mom used
to
> tell how they would use warm bricks in their beds when she was little.  My
> Uncle Fred lived with us the last 9 years of his life.  He almost made it
to
> 92 years of age.  He was born on Christmas day, too.  He said that when
they
> would take the slay, pulled by a couple of horses, into town, his dad
would
> put lots of hay down, cover it with thick blankets, and then warm bricks
> near the fireplace, and then put more blankets over the bricks.  Then the
> kids got in and more blankets piled on top of the kids and off to town
they
> would go.  That was in Kansas.
>
> Phil.
>