Same way in Brown Co Ohio, you brought back memories!  I remember snow on the quilts because it blew threw the windows.  The outhouse was the worse, they put it way downhill to avoid the stink and on a day like today you didn't care if it stunk or not, it was frozen.

I also went to the one room school and survived.  It was the toughest year of my life and only first grade.  I came home one day with poor grades in reading and that was never a problem again.

I remember helping dad split and cord wood and when we go the running water, indoor plumbing and a fuel oil furnace in 1958, dad swore he would never cut wood again.

But he did for me in the 70's when fuel oil went out of the roof during the oil embargo.

Basically you worked for food and shelter all the time and slept and little and has John said, they didn't live long back in those days.

Ed