Could be Worse?

I do hate the cold, cold and ice and all, but.......this photo is of Grandma Bess. I have central heat, an electric throw on my chair, and one of those little Amish heaters I can switch on at my feet.  Bess had to lug in wood and pile it in this huge fire place.  Ice would freeze in the kitchen with this fire blazing.  I have running water--hot and cold.  Bess had to draw up her water outside from an old well with one of those metal well buckets without a bottom. How did that work?  If Bess had milk, she had to milk the cow.  Meat was outside in the smoke house.  Sometimes, I think romatically about the olden days....but I count my blessings today.  I count them one by one (under my electric throw while reading my lastest good book)!