Overboard by Chip Dunham for August 22, 2013

Early A/C. I remember an ice block in front of a fan.

I think Louie wants more from the fridge than just a cool breeze.

Nate’s a cool guy. Good Morning, Crew.

Yup. And that’s why you’ll never find me complaining about the heat. Winter is much worse.

Good Morning, Crew!

Good Morning Crew,Nothing beats a cool breeze on a hot summer day.Dry, your gonna like this one LOLHave a GREAT DAY MATIE’S

Gotta love this strip that starts our day out happy and right!

I think you can fit at least 6 of those rodents in the freezer and still close the door. It’ll save on energy costs. ;-)Good morning, Crew!

I love my landlords. (They were friends before I moved into their basement.) They got a new central air system installed last Friday, and it’s been sick! We went from 32C in the basement the week before, to 20C yesterday at 2pm. I love it.

Of course, with the door open like that, the compressor is going to be working overtime… which means it’ll be pumping out a lot of heat. It’ll feel cool in front of the door, but in the long run, the temperature in the room will go up!

Yeah, I remember the “icebox” with a hole in the porch so the guy could put the block of ice in it from outside. And, stoves with pilot. Our stove is 42 years old, 4 standing pilots, wife will never part with it, 40" and when power went out few years ago we could cook. And, we remember the knife sharpener man that would walk the street and the rags and iron man, plus. Good memories, good days. Patriotic days.When in Virginia visiting wife’s family the ice man came and brought ice so we could have home made vanilla ice cream……and we all took turns churning. Aaaaaah….

Wow, did I know you? Were you one of my playmates? I remember my mother telling me not to eat the ice, it was dirty, well duh! and my grandma had a wood stove, she would start the oatmeal at nite and in the morning we would dig out a portion and take it outside to pick raspberries on it. No fridge, just a cold cupboard. In Europe? nope in Portland Oregon in the 40s. We also chewed tar from the re-ruffer’s tank whenever a roof was getting repaired. Now that couldn’t be good!

re-roofer, stupid auto-correct!

Well I don’t remember all that stuff some of you do, but I remember the Jewel Tea Man coming door to door, the milkman coming in the early mornings with milk and putting it in that metal milk box, the egg man, the big green ice cream truck, the snow cone man, staying out until past dark and laying on the grass and looking at the stars, playing hide and seek with flashlights, ahh, the good old days.

And in Los Angeles: the Helms Bakery truck, playing Kick the Can at nite, Sneaking out in the morning to put a chocolate milk tab in the empty bottle, so the milkman would leave me chocolate milk (until my mom wised him up). Walking along the back fences to get to my friends house, reading Looney Tunes comics under the big tree out back, Having grass fights in the vacant lot (pull up a clump of loooong grass and sling it at your opponent.) AND we were outside all the time, had to come in when the street lights came on, AND our mothers didn’t know just exactly where we were!

And, we kids would smell the tar, find out who was getting it put on the roof and then chew it……Chicago vacant lots were called prairies, baseball in summer, they were flooded in winter, played out all the time, never quit. And, those radio programs…………

P.S. Raymond is half the size, what happened to him.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-air-conditioner/

I don’t really remember anything but the milk man and a pastry truck for some reason. I do remember a ringer washer with a wash board though. And a wood- burning “space heater” at our cottage. Brr, when it was cold, I stayed in bed until my dad stoked it up.

CHIP wanted you to know, I highlighted the comments here and the strip and put it in my library. Brought back some nice memories.

Nate’s got the biggest heart!

Actually, not a bad idea.

’Evening, Crew.