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Originally Posted by jswinden
I remember the big old style hand crank ice cream maker we had. Those were a necessity growing up in hell (I mean Texas) in the 1960s. Ice cream makers were the most used kitchen accessory during the summers. Those hand crank models did a better job than the electric motor ones which tended to bog down a lot and stop. We would all take turns turning the crank until we got tired. In late June the watermelons came into season, so we ate a lot of those. We put them in a large ice chest with ice and let them get ice cold. Nothing helped to beat the hot hellish (Texas) summers better than ice cream and ice cold watermelons! BTW, we didn't have AC in our house. It was too old and drafty for AC to be effective, and it would have cost a small fortune to use in a 100+ year old house built without any insulation. From mid-July through mid-August we rarely slept much as it was so hot you couldn't get comfortable lying in a sweat soaked bed with several fans blowing on you. I wish my ancestors had kept going westward until they got to the mountains where the weather was better. But they didn't. No big deal today with electricity and HVAC, but in the early 1800s it must have been brutal.
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This house still doesn't have central heat and air. However we did find an evaporative cooler originally designed for the Australian outback. And if the pump goes out, at least it is only $20 to replace it and a water hose can fill in for the pump if it is 109 and the one that drives is at work. Happened last summer.
Oh hey JS, remember you are in the wetter but cooler part of hell. (Texas).
And I don't think we want to visit Orla in the summer.