We get up in the mornings; take a hot shower, use a coffee maker, a toaster, an electric or gas stove to make breakfast with fresh food taken out of a refrigerator that was grown half a world away. We use flat irons, electric shavers, irons, washers and dryers and blenders all before we head out to work in the morning.
The convenience of these modern day appliances have shaved hours and hours off of a typical work week, but do we stop and ponder life before these miracles? If just one of these jobs was thrown back 100 years ago, when we washed our clothes in giant basins when we had to boil the water first, make the soap out of lye and ash and then scrub the clothes on a wash board or rock to clean them.
The simple task of throwing our clothes in the washer and then dryer that takes us only minutes would be an all day task for someone a century ago, just that one task.
Where would fresh food come from? If you were fortunate enough to live in California you would have a very long growing season and things would be o.k. provided it rained enough.
If you lived in Michigan, Illinois or Utah it might not be so fun. All food would have to be preserved, bottled, salted and stored to survive the winter. Variety and fresh food in the winter would be non-existent.
Got milk? Only if you owned, fed and milked a cow. Bread was made by hand and cooked in coal or wood burning stoves, no grocery store, no ready made anything. If you want it you made it. We are pretty spoiled today.
We truly live in a miraculous world, where convenience and ease of daily tasks is mind-boggling. Can you imagine waking up on a beautiful California day without a water heater? A cold shower would be a hard way to start the day.
As we go about our daily task, let's think about those miraculous appliances, water heaters and indoor plumbing and fresh food with lots of variety. We have it pretty good!
Author Resource:
waterheatersonly.com (http://www.waterheatersonly.com/) America's Original and Favorite California Water Heater Specialist. Art Gib is a freelance writer.Distributed by Content Crooner
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