Granny's gone and done it again

We used to have to lift the covered wagons to grease the axles. We carried a block of wood and something long, I don't remember what. Maybe a long pipe or maybe we unhooked the tongue of the wagon, I don't remember. The women would sit on the end of the long thing used as a fulcrum to lift the wagon and hold it up while the men slid the wheel off and applied a thick coating of grease. If we did not do that on a regular basis there was a danger of overheating and fire in the hubs of the wheels. Sometimes we'd take the wheels off and throw them in the river to make the wood of the wheels swell, otherwise they might dry out and the iron rims could fall off. Talk about a flat tire, that would be a disaster.
No way you're that old!
 
Tuna salad wrapped in a lettuce leaf for supper tonight. To hot to cook anything. AC is running on 79° and I have a bad feeling about the electric bill as the cost of what they have to pay has gone up and that means they will have to pass it on to us to keep the lights on at their office.
Mine was $188.oo this month
 

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