I started reading this book the other day about life in the old west back a hundred or so years ago.
As I was reading it, I was sitting outside in the sun on my patio and the weather started heating up a lot.
I got too hot and I decided to go inside into the air conditioning so I could start cooling off a bit. It was when I turned the page and started reading about the burning hot temperatures and the blowing sand that I realized that back then, people didn’t have any nice cool air conditioned homes to escape to when the weather got too hot outside. They just had to suffer and deal with all of the heat and high temperatures. I don’t know that I could have even lived back then with no heating and cooling options available to me at all. It must have been really horrible to have to deal with all of the heat, dirt, and dust. Can you imagine how awful the indoor air quality must have been? I just think about how all the dust and sand must have gotten into the homes and buildings and they didn’t have any ventilation systems to help with the indoor air quality at all! At this point in life, I won’t even spend time anywhere that doesn’t have good indoor air quality. I’m pretty sure I’m spoiled with my fancy air conditioning system and my whole home air purification system. I would probably never have even lasted a day in the old west.