sewingpup

I live in northern Minnesota. When I was a kid...nobody had air-conditioning. We would just open the windows in the evening and by morning, the house would be cooled down. we would then close the windows and the shades on the sunny side of the house....well...all the began to change about 20-30 years ago and now all but one house in my neighborhood has installed central air....thank goodness we had forced air for heating as it made installing the central air so much easier as the air ducts were already installed. Yep....Climate change is real folks. See changes in the vegetation around here too...getting too warm for conifers, being replaced by maples. We can now grow plants from zone s 4-5...used to be zone 3, 4 was very iffy and usually would only last a year or two. Oh, I am living in my the house I grew up in so have seen the changes over that past 70 years.