Dog Days Of Summer

The "dog days of summer" are here and electricity companies are grinning from ear to ear! As much as I love to think on the good ole days and the lifestyle everyone had, I am VERY thankful for the air conditioning---I just don't believe that we are as tough as our ancestors were. On second thought they may not have been tough by choice, it was just the way it was--no one had ever heard of air conditioning.
The older homes were built with a open space in the center of the house, hence dividing the rooms into 2 different units. This area was called the "dog run" and I am certain the dogs did take advantage of the shaded cool space--the breeze could blow completely through the "run". It was the favorite place during the hot days for the family as well. You normally found a bed of some sort in this space because they would sleep out there at night. Don't you know that they had trouble making their dogs (probably hounds) get off of the bed so they themselves could go to bed. Now I don't know about you but that doesn't appeal to me AT ALL---first of all You know the mosquitoes would eat you alive..the dogs most certainly had fleas--makes me want to scratch just thinking about it.. bless their hearts, working like all get out during the day and having to contend with the bugs at night.
Makes me wonder what they would think of our air conditioned homes of today--- after feeling the cold air they may decide that it was hog "killin' time..
You often hear summer referred to as the lazy days of summer--they may be for some of us but there was not anything lazy about their summer days. They worked from before sun-up until sun down & after. As tired as they must have been I guess a few bugs eating and crawling on you wouldn't matter..
Goodnight and sleep tight and don.t let the bedbugs bite you!!!!!