Made it to the mailbox

[Kurt]

If you stop and think how it was in the past and you needed something after a snow storm you bundled up and walked. School was never closed because of a couple inches of snow like they are now. The buses maybe would not run to every house in the country to pick up the kids but you made your way where they ran and got on there. Town kids made it to school or were marked absent.
I went to school in a one room country school and rode a bike or took the horse. Took turns starting the fire in a potbelly stove and took out the ashes and filled the coal bucket.
In the winter we just kept more food in the house and when the powder went off the oil fired space heater came out or the wood stove got fired up.
Sometimes I wonder if we were not better off back then then we are now.
We just don't get the winters now like we did.