Friends, it is COLD this morning! How many of y’all grew up in a house with just a couple of heaters?
We did! I can’t take the cold like I used to. Maybe that’s why? We had one gas heater in the living room, after we quit using the fireplace. And one in the big ole kitchen. The rest of the house went unheated! You slept in the cold!
We would stand by the heater getting our nerve up, and tear out down the hall and jump under the covers! We had hump-teen quilts — so many you couldn’t roll over!
Maw Nell had a big old feather bed! Loved those in the winter! You just fell in and the bed sorta fluffed up around you! Then on a cold morning like today, you piled out, grabbed your clothes and dressed in front of the heater! Man that was fun!
More than one person I know got branded by them old heaters! If you bent over too close you got grill marks on your buttocks! Gosh that hurt!
A friend of mine got scarred for life on his butt! And years later if anybody saw it, and asked, he told them he got hurt in the War! Ha! Well he said that was partly true cause he was fighting one of his brothers for a warm spot!
And life goes on, on Thompson Hill.
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