My mother was a master of controlling heat in the house. ( I realize this won’t have anything to do with water, but none of it has to do with a tractor so what the hell.) We did not have AC or central air. The duct work snuck through the farm house was archaic at best. She would open and close windows and shades as the day and night progressed. The remodeling projects that Ma and Pa did put large windows on the south side and small ones on the north. This provide solar heating in the cold months much like you used to see on hog and chicken barns, but don’t see much anymore anywhere. It was not uncommon to open the basement door to vent some cool air up. Now the basement did have a canning room with a dirt floor and was sectioned off from the rest of the basement. That room was always the coolest. If you consider the liquid volume stored in the jellys, preserved meats, canned fruits, homemade wines, and stuff the regulators didn’t know about I’m sure there was a couple hundred gallons. That must count for something. That room was often open in the summer, but always closed in the winter. At any rate she kept the old farm house comfortable through the dog days of summer. Now come winter she ran that old wood furnace like a boiler man. She also had a little wood stove next to the electric range in the kitchen and had a cast iron tea kettle chugging away to bring moisture into the house. I can’t tell you the math because I was picking rocks the day we had nuclear physics in school, but I know it works. She also carried the wash water from the wash machine up the steps out the door and put that on the birch trees. And I’ll say we had some nice big birch trees.
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