Welcome to porch… Which by the way has been cooler than my house. Our air conditioner has gone home, wherever that is. We were lucky to get a new one installed in about two days.  The heat and the humidity was absolute misery… I recall when I was growing up you were up-town if you had a window fan and if you owned any kind of an air conditioner, you most likely owned the town. Progress is great and we certainty have come a long way in making life comfortable for ourselves but at what cost. We have become a nation of whiners, moaners and groaners. We worship convenience and comfort at any price. My generation…yes I am going to go there, we  took what life gave us and made the best of it. The weather was just a source of conversation in my day and believe it are not it always started and ended with these words… why, I remember when… In the world we live in today it is the agenda of Government Committee Hearings and a source of enrichment for those who are experts of Global Warming or Climate Change. Here I go…when it got really hot my grandmother would pull the curtains back, raise the shades if you had them, open the window and you would sleep in your underwear on top of the sheet. Oh yes a note about that window screen. By mid August there would be a few balls of cotton  stuck in the holes to keep the varmints out. That was one way we coped with climate change.

While I am writing this it occurred to me that having come as far as we have, there is one amazing commonality among us. We are better off now than we were but we are also weaker than before. We can no longer tolerate adversity very well and we are always looking for who or what we can blame for it. I have reason to believe that the storm Sunday am caused a power surge that caused the compressor in the unit to weld the contacts together. I add this not because it is important, Just thought you might like to know that. The insurance company didn’t agree. I might call Al Gore and see if it is possible it could have been climate change.

Thanks for coming by and hope to see you on the porch next time.

Kurt