Oh, do I ever remember sleeping in the yard. One of the most fun things we could do. My cousins and I would also use those nights to catch lightening bugs. We're lucky to be in an urban area that is relatively "safe" and our grandson pitches a tent in our backyard. He ususally lasts 'til about 4. He also wraps tinfoil around his bicycle spokes to make noise! (Do some things never change but rather just improve?) When it got cooler weather we slept 3 to a bed on a screened in porch. Grandma hung plastic across the screens so it wouldn't be too cold for us. For added measure, she'd pile the quilts on so we slept snug as bugs. To this day I have to have "weight" on me when I sleep and at least one foot out from under the covers. The fool people who bought the farm from the family enclosed that porch...geez what their grandchildren are missing out on. :-) Ira's car story brought another memory back to my husband who's from some good old German stock. When his grandparents bought their first car they didn't have a garage to keep it in--all the "equipment" had to be kept safe. One of the relatives who lived about a mile away had an empty barn so the car got stored up there. When they needed the car, the oldest son who was the designated driver had to walk the mile to get the car, go back to pick everyone up, then when they were finished using the car, he'd drive it back to the barn and walk the mile back home. Another of my car memories is the water cooler in the passenger's window to make air conditioning. We lived in Harlingen, TX (bottom tip of TX) and drove to northeastern OK every summer in "comfort" because of this even though the water sprayed to the back seat sometimes! We had a window water cooler in the house too. Sharon in a really hot Texas