Good morning! Summer is here and I’m not amused with the heat. I’m also not rich enough to have a ceement pond like some people, so I’m always looking for ways to stay cool.
What are your preferred methods?
While you’re thinking, I’ll be taking my car to the dealer for some warranty work.
Happy Moanday!!
First! (Thanks for not-Swampy for starting us off this week.)
Imma gonna turn on the ceiling fan & go backasleep.
BTW, my HVAC is still on “heat” as a/c hasn’t been on yet this year.
Monday night here, already survived another Monday and home with the heater on getting ready to eat some dinner.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 70 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of ONLY 89 for the day. Well, BRRRRRR! 
In addition to the cee-mint pond, I have a fully airconditioned cave and vehicles. I irk in an airconditioned buildin’. I shop in airconditioned stores. Pretty much everywhere I go has a/c. That’s how I survive the heat. However, Summer does not bother da bear as da bear is a Summer baby.
Thanks for startin’ us off MOOOOOOM!
Ok, that’s all I got for now. I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. The minions and I have to sit through a webcast this mornin’. Rah.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
B to the Lurf!
Afternoon, mumpers!
We don’t get the really hot summers here any more so there’s not much in the way of aircon. I do have aircon in the car but it guzzles petrol, and I have a feeling the system doesn’t work anyway. I keep it cool by opening the windows. In the house, I open windows and put fans on if it gets really hot and that usually makes it cool enough by night to get to sleep.
So…day one in the new job and everyone is really happy that I’m back here again. Let’s hope they are happy enough to sign off on my next lot of holidays as I’ve just realised that it falls in the supplementary exam period. Oh dear. What a shame.
Good mornin’, y’all. I know, I know. I’ve been MIA the past few weeks.
Summer in good old PA sucks. It’s hot, sticky, and hazy from pretty much now until September. Chez Robyn has a window air conditioner, so I’ll be selling organs to pay the electric bill all summer, but I have a nice air-conditioned library to work at and I can stand the mile or so walk to get there. Oh, yeah. My birfday is this Thursday! Happy birfday to me!
Crowdsourcing time!
I have a crappy part-time job at a big-box retailer. I only work eight hours or so a week and it’s interfering with my self-employment and pretty much everything else in my life. Do I quit this, or do I suck it up and deal because every little bit helps? (Further useful information: It’s not being listed on my resume because I’m looking for jobs where outside employment is discouraged.) Phone lines are open!
Anyway, have a nice week and enjoy (snerf!) your summer/winter!
the humiditity has upped. I am blurfy.
Happy Moonday!
It’s a sunny 64 degrees right now with a projected high of 82.
I live in a house with A/C and drive a truck with A/C so I’m seldom in the heat.
When I didn’t have A/C (a row house in the city) I lived on popsicles and cool showers. I kept the windows closed/blinds down on the sunny side of the house and ran fans at night when it was cooler. Eventually I got a window AC for my bedroom.
When I lived in the old farmhouse in the city I put fans in the attic windows with the air blowing out and most of the time blowing out the hot attic air kept the rest of the house cool. The few weeks that would be miserable hot I’d run a window AC in my bedroom. Then somebody gave me an AC big enough to cool the living room and dining room, that was nice.
My preferred method is to live in San Francisco, but that costs more than air conditioning, so I settle for using the heck out of Willis Carrier’s invention.
Two window air conditioners in a small cottage does the trick. As I am in & out in all kinds of weather I have to dress for the hot stuff, but then I might end up in editing where the temp is around 65 (no shit!) to keep the equipment cool. We keep jackets handy for that.
No great news from here.
So far, I’ve been able to stay comfortable with the 3 ceiling fans. I suppose I’ll have to turn the A/C on at some point, but I’m putting that off as long as possible
Up, caffeinated, worked closing shift tonight. I use AC to deal with the summer.
Good morning everybody! drops off virtual doughnuts and muffins for all
My favorite method to beat the heat is to cheat and put the central air on. I’ve often complained that I spend more time inside the house with closed windows in the summer than I do in the winter. (though I admit to being part polar bear and liking windows open in “nice” winter weather - meaning above 0ºF - gotta have fresh air!).
I’m home from work today and tomorrow - took vacation time to be here for the excitement. My big ol’ silver maple tree has to come down - it’s starting to split open and is obviously very hollow inside - and big enough to take out my house, or a neighbor’s, depending on the direction of the fall. It is now 9:20am and STILL no tree guys. I am getting a bit worried - expected them here by 8am.
I’m gonna miss my big tree though. 
I was out this morning earlier taking lots of photos of him.
The ol tree
Is there butter & a toaster for the corn muffins?
I forgot Murphy. If it’s warm, I sleep outside on my deck. 
What a lovely, grand old, tree! It’s a shame it has to come down, but if it’s not healthy, I can understand the need to protect your home.
Here in the cool, green PNW, A/C is not “standard” in most homes. Some homes have it, mine doesn’t and the home is only 11 years old. Fortunately, my home has no Western exposure windows, so it doesn’t become unbearably hot in my house. The very few nights a year that it does, we set a box fan on a bucket of ice in the den. In the great room, I have a big ceiling fan. In the bedrooms, we stick box fans in the windows.
Our rigs have A/C, and so does my office. My office is always cold and I must always wear a sweater while at work.
I’m not a fan of heat or extreme heat. About 70 degrees is warm enough for me. My husband and friends think I’m a weirdo because of this because they like things hot. Bleh.
Hiya, everyone! It’s my first MMP and I wish you all well.
Another Northwest Doper here, and yeah, there aren’t enough hot days in the year to bother with AC (IMHO). This is the first summer in our new apartment for Scrub Jay and me so we’ll see how we fare. I think it will be fine as we have windows on three sides and are high enough to get a good cross-breeze.
My personal way to keep cool is to dampen a hand towel and drape it around my neck. Does wonders, I tell you. At night, I have the towel on my belly or side depending on how I’m laying.
Fluffy PickleSniffer, I love big trees and I cannot lie. It’s always a shame when one has to come down but its better to be safe than sorry. That’s a lovely picture. Like the ones of your refrigerator cat as well.
We have a good-sized park nearby full of wonderful, big trees. The park’s forefathers saw fit to gather many fine specimens from around the world and most of those are now around a hundred years old. I could examine their bark and stare up into their crowns all day. (The trees, not the forefathers.)
Now remember, folks, Monday is but one day. We’ll get through it together!
Welcome to our playground, Hope! I used to do the damp washcloth in bed when I was a kid. We lived in a row house in Baltimore, no a/c. At night, my folks would put a window fan in the dining room, blowing out. They’d close all the windows downstairs and we opened the bedroom windows about 4". Even if it was a very warm night, the air going across damp skin was usually enough to keep me from melting in my sleep.
Now we’ve got big trees around the house and a/c and ceiling fans and some smaller fans to be dispatched as needed. I hate having the a/c on because of the electric bills, but when it gets really humid, I’m glad to have it. At the moment, the house is open, but as the temp outside nears 80° and the sun climbs higher, it’s going to warm up in here really fast, so I’ll be closing windows, drawing blinds, and turning on the air. Ugh.
We took our Sonata to the dealer this morning. He hasn’t called, so I’m assuming what they’re doing is warranty work. It better be - we didn’t authorize anything. After dropping the car off, we did the gym, then drove up to Clinton so **FCD **could buy some painting stuff. I’ve unloaded the dishwasher and before we left, I tossed a load of whites into the washer. Now I’m waiting for the dryer to finish. I’ll gather the household trash in a bit for a trek to the convenience center.
Yep, things are exciting at FairyChatEstates!
We added AC window units to the two bedrooms in our place. Other than that I can position a fan in the basement doorway in such a way to take the temp down 5-10 degrees (one nice thing about a sandstone foundation on lots of clay) or sometimes put a fan behind an open chest of ice. My favorite trick in the old and poor student days was to take a hot shower just before bed and hope to drift off while I still felt “cool”.
I also use ceilin’ fans and oscillatin’ stand fans in da cave to create a breeze. Love that especially at night.
Fluffs that is a purty tree! So sad it has to come down but better safe than sorry alas.
Welcome Hope! this is a fun place to come play.
Rockin’ if by interferin’ with your self-employment as in causin’ you to lose more money than you’d make doin’ that eight hours a week, I say dump the big box gig.
I did not have a/c in my life until I was twelve. That’s when the 'rents had heat and air installed in ye olde home place. I was glad for the a/c but kinda hated to see the old gas furnace get replaced. That thing kept us all toasty warm in the winter, ever so much better than central heat.
Ok, N.O.L. is over. Back to irk.