Thread: Wind power? Anybody skeptical?

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"..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

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[/QUOTE]

41willys, That sounded like my house, we had a blanket to keep the heat from the coal stove in the dining room, the older kids were the ones closest to the stove. The living room was very seldom used to cold. At night the bed was ice cold but after awhile the body heat would warm it up.

Ok I’ll admit only certain things were good back in the good old days. I painted my first car in the back yard 55 Chevy 2dr. ht. Now I don't go in the garage if it's to hot, to cold, or I'm too tired. Back in the good old days I changed a water pump on the side of the road 65 GTO in 1967 after getting off work at Ford motor company at 1:00 a.m. over 100 miles down the road with a small crescent wrench and a screw driver, and a pair of pliers. The sun was coming up when I finished, today I wouldn't think about it unless it was on the lift. I was just telling my wife this morning how fast this year is going by. Then I said it sure didn’t go this fast When I was in the Army, but I liked that period of time.

Richard