We played basketball (usually it was flat) out behind the barn & our hoop was an old 5 gal. bucket w/a rusted out bottom hung on the barn. Always had to milk the cows (we had a dairy) before & after school. Butchering chickens & hogs for our meat, we did send he beef to the processing place. Canning, boy, we canned enough to last through the winter until the next garden was producing. Hot, too, no a/c at all, no tv. Did have a radio. Lots of board games w/my siblings & our parents in the winter always outdoors in the summer playing on the creek after chores were done. Good days, well, I wouldn't want to be w/out a/c esp. this summer. Average temps for us was around 105 all summer.