DailySusan Humor Blog

13 PEOPLE IN A SODHOUSE?
IN A BLIZZARD? EATING BEANS?

The wind was howling; sleet was pelting the windows; about six new inches of snow had fallen and the wind chill was -22.

I started thinking of the prairie pioneers, and wondering how they made it through nights like this, in a blizzard, living in a sodhouse with no microwave oven, Internet or DVD's.

A friend commented that there was a sodhouse on her grandparents' farm in which the whole family -- 13 people -- would gather in one room, and the livestock in the other, during blizzards.

That started us laughing, since we knew that in the latter half of most winters, beans were about the only grub left in those pioneer days.

No WONDER nobody is smiling in any of those old-time pioneer pictures!