Thank you.
I grew up 4.5 miles outside the large metropolis of Diamond, Missouri, on a 120 acre farm. Our nearest neighbors were a mile away. Diamond’s population was about 453 people. It was about 10 miles South East of Joplin.
We didn’t have air conditioning either, but a fan really worked well with the humidity.
It’s been a long time, but I’ve been over into Oklahoma a bit, the Eastern part mostly with one trip over to Enid.
You know, when I was a kid, I used to play with bricks, and make believe they were cars. I used to strip poke greens and play sword fight with my brother, mostly just before fighting. LOL I used to hit rocks with sticks, bounce a ball off steps by the hour in make believe nine inning baseball games with all my favorite players. There’s always fun things to do if you’re creative.
You don’t have to be rich to be happy. You don’t have to have things to be happy. You don’t even have to have others to be happy. You have to decide to be happy to be happy.
I could give up air conditioning. My wife couldn’t. She’d wilt.
The only fans we had were the ones the funeral homes left on the pews for funerals. :) The town I was raised in was about 30 miles from Joplin, had all of 200 people in it.