Loooove it!! Love the belly scratching!!....purrrrrrrrrr..........purrrrrrrrr.....
For Stray Cat and all you cat lovers.
Ohhhh! That's sooo me! Loving the air conditioning!!!
Littlek--
Air conditioning making one energetic? No, just irritable.
Really....? Maybe that's my problem.
Seriously, could be.
In the last two or three years I've grown less irritable in air conditioning, but I'm still aware of my uncharitable nature.
a link I'll have to study later (too much wine).
http://www.hippocrates.com.au/negative.html
who needs air-conditioningwhen you have wine ?
went to see my barber who came from sicily many years ago. we started talking about the recent heat wave and agreed that the people living around the mediteranean sea learned long ago how to live in a warm climate without air-conditioning : close shop about 1 pm, go home or go to the taverna and start working again around 4 or 5 pm.
i'm right now reading a travel guide about brazil. i understand that's the way of life in brazil; it also stated that one should not expect dinner before about 9 or 10 pm.; i'll have to find out. hbg
Struth, Hamburger. At least in Mediteranean europe - late late dinner to compensate for the siesta.
My experience, not very vast, is that late dinner is not all that big a meal, that the mid afternoon meal is the large one, followed by a nap.. then, back to work..
Air Conditioning goes on in about March or April and stays on till about October,
The heat goes on about the end of November and is turned off end of Feb.
I heat my home to about 61 F, and cool to about 78 F
Summer in the south I know it is not the heat it is the humilities
I spend most of daylight hours in the sun, in and out. For several years, my pick up did not have A/C, but I just bought one with the best air you ever saw. Now it's a pleasure driving home.
Edgar
edgarblythe wrote:I spend most of daylight hours in the sun, in and out. For several years, my pick up did not have A/C, but I just bought one with the best air you ever saw. Now it's a pleasure driving home.
I bet you are really enjoying your little bit of truck luxury.
BBB
I lived without air conditioning until 5 years ago. My whole life, up until then, except for a brief stint in a dorm.
Strangely, there were more unbearable weeks in Madison summers than in L.A., probably partly because we were on the top floor of a three-story house in Madison. That was brutal, to be sure. We'd have these elaborate arrangements of fans and cross-ventilation and going to sleep with wet washcloths arranged on skin. Wet + naked + hot sounds somewhat sexy, but skin touching skin was unbearable. It was hot all day, but it is trying to sleep through horribly hot nights that I have the most vivid memories of.
L.A. was similar but since it was drier it cooled off more quickly at night.
Overall, it really wasn't as bad as everyone thought it was. ("You live in LOS ANGELES with no A/C????")
I certainly like having A/C now, but I'm much happier to survive without it than without heat. (Have had annual bouts of freezing nights the last few years [broken furnace X 2 and then a power outage], the one around last Christmas when it was subzero outside was primally awful.)
Our central A/C died about 2 weeks ago, and it probably can't be repaired until we replace the entire electrical box. We suspect a lightning strike, which killed our water pump & A/C, and damaged our electrical box.
In the meantime the lights flicker sometimes in a rather frightening way. The electrical box is so old the whole thing probably has to be replaced, costing way more than we have....
Lightning strikes are very common here. When we moved in we had a dead tree from lightning; another tree in our yard was hit about 2 months ago; and now AGAIN!
A neighbor several miles away had a strike on a large oak tree which sprayed leaves & branch bits over a full block, so he said.
One often doesn't even know it was a lightning strike until the next day, since lightning always strikes close-by during daily, rather severe thunderstorms all summer. Often only a few appliances die, sometimes part-way. The neighbor with the killed oak lost a computer modem, but not the computer itself.
Back in Sarasota the building I worked in had a lightning strike in the parking lot, regardless of the lightning rods on the 4-story roof. Weird.
Anyway, it's hot. It's actually not as hot here as when I lived in Tampa without A/C for about 9 years. Cities are hotter; the coast is hotter. But the heat index is 105. I'm hot. I move slowly and wear linen.
So if you all don't hear from me for a bit, it's because we have no power. Given our preparations for hurricane season, we'll be fine, if inconvenienced. Blick!
Yikes, good luck BK...
Interesting about lightning striking twice, that happened two sets of times on either side of us in our old neighborhood. One tree in our neighbor's backyard was hit by lightning many years ago, like 15, and then was hit again (including sending that ball of fire that has a name I forget through her hallway and out the front door, no damage). Then another tree on the other side (half a block or so) was hit by lightning twice in the 4 years we lived there -- the first time it lost a major limb but was OK, the second time it was demolished. (Big gorgeous oak, it was sad.)
Wow Soz, that's really odd for, as we say, Up North.
Lucky for me I've never seen the ball-of-fire thing... hope I never do.
soz, It must feel almost like Baghdad.
