"..we use the dining room most of the time...The house is a 100-foot long ranch with 9-foot ceilings and 12-foot openings in the living, and dining room it takes a lot to heat it. The good thing is each room has a door to close off...

Richard[/QUOTE]


Remember what it was like when we were kids?
We lived in a big old farmhouse and for all of the years we lived there I don't ever remember going either upstairs or into the "parlor" in the winter. I remember it had leaded glass french doors that my mother covered with a quilt when it got cold. We lived in the kitchen and living room. I used to love sleeping behind the old coal stove. I also remember breaking the ice in the wash basin in the morning and running through the snow only to sit on the cold wooden seat in the out house.
I know the older I get the softer I grow. But I also know we may all have to get used to doing it all again. (I wonder how many "traditional" rodders would really want to go back to those "good old days").
I think I can't live without A/C in the shop but I know it has got to stop sometime.
For whatever the reason, environmental, political, or beuracratic idiocy, we will never see the last 30 years again. Hot rodders, by our very nature, are ingenious. We need to ply that ingenuity toward making ours more existence than subsistence.
John