After a long day of slopping and tending the pigs we would retire to the air conditioned game room, and watch sports while sipping on a beer or two
It was my junior year of high school, and for the entire summer I was being sent away to stay with my Uncle Dave. At the time this seemed like the worst thing that had ever happened to me, but it really changed my life in the best possible way. Uncle Dave lived on a farm, and if that wasn’t bad enough it was a hog farm. Instead of going into my final high school summer with plans for fun and excitement, I was going to be a hog farmer’s assistant. Once I got there, I found the place to be a lot nicer than expected. It even had an air conditioned walkway that lead from the main farmhouse to the feeding area of the hogs. In fact the entire compound had AC darn near everywhere, as well as wall to wall wifi and flat screen TVs in every major room. This place was fancier than home, and with the cooling factor added in I realized that my summer was going to be pretty fun. After a long day of slopping and tending the pigs we would retire to the air conditioned game room, and watch sports while sipping on a beer or two. Uncle Dave was the first guy to give me a beer, which was so much cooler than all the AC in the world in my book. By the time I went back home I realized I was going to miss living there, not just because of the beer but because his climate control system was so much better than the one my folks had.