<p>Iced coffee. It was so hot early today that I didn’t even have my daily cup of coffee, but then noticed I had a headache, so I had some w ice in hopes it will go away. ( & a scoop of ice cream, cause calcium)</p>
<p>Popsicles.
Boy have they improved popsicles since I was a kid. :)</p>
<p>No socks. Or shoes. Or makeup( it would just melt off anyway)</p>
<p>Sleeping outside. We are putting the tent up wednesday.</p>
<p>H has been chasing down the ice cream truck every day at around 6 PM. Pushing 3,4, and 5 year olds out of the way for over priced banana popsicles.</p>
<p>Yesterday I cooked. i roasted a chicken & made a pie. But now we have lots of stuff to eat without cooking + someone at swimming gave me a dozen eggs from her daughters chickens, so Im looking for an egg salad recipe.</p>
<p>Good excuse to not go outside and run like I needed to!</p>
<p>So glad we got air conditioning installed in this house several years ago. Haven’t used it much, and it is incredibly weak, but if we supercool it early in the morning, the house is actually down to about 83 degrees right now, which is bearable.</p>
<p>Never to hot to drink, emerald, are you serious? Just drink a cold one, that will hydrate you!</p>
<p>How much longer are we going to have to put up with this?</p>
<p>I tend to be perhaps a little dehydrated anyway and even one drink under those conditions hits me pretty hard.
But at least I am a cheap date!
;)</p>
<p>Someone has been lighting off m-80s or something for two nights in a row.
I am going to see if I can get a better idea of where they are, too hot to sleep.</p>
<p>'busdriver, do you have a dual zone or dual unit HVAC?"</p>
<p>Nope, krlilies, nothing that fancy. We just have a plain old air conditioning system, separate from the heating system. The problem is, when they installed it, they explained that for our size of house, normally people would get a larger system, but since it generally doesn’t get that hot where we live, they purposefully undersize them (cheaper for the customer). Our AC doesn’t really cost that much to run, but when it’s hot, we keep it going all day and night. Those two days a year it actually gets hot enough where us and emerald live…it’s nice to have, even if it isn’t very powerful!</p>
<p>We live close to the beach so no AC. But there are the few times a year when I wish we had it! So, for me, the heat calls for outdoor grilling or nice chilled salads for dinner. For DH, it’s pitchers of Arnold Palmers!</p>
Yum! Reminds me to make chilled chicken macaroni salad.</p>
<p>Busdriver, I don’t know what a plain old AC is. Do you mean window AC units? Can you cool the second floor only with the AC and just use fans in the first floor? You can also close the registers of unused rooms. If it’s a window AC, put a Vornado fan beside it so that the fan will boost the cool air blowing towards the room.</p>
<p>No, I don’t mean window AC. I mean that it is undersized, nothing special. Without getting too boringly specific, it is a Carrier, 3.5 ton, 10 SEER model. We should have spent more and got something appropriate for our home, but we didn’t want to spend the extra money and this does the job if you start it up early anyways. We can’t zone it off, either. Really annoying, because our heating system was originally four zones. Then they came in, put in the ac and a new furnace, and claimed that since it was a different system than the original, it would be costly and complicated to put it back into four zones. I don’t know if they were giving me a bunch of BS, but they were pretty convincing and everything works well enough. Maybe they just didn’t know what they were doing, but I have to admit, we had a number of companies come in to give us estimates for the ac, and this was the only company that said they actually could do it.</p>
<p>We bought a pair of new blade-less Dysan “air magnifier” fans at Costco; they were $100 off and I thought we’d splurge and see how we like them. So far, we are not positive they’re as great as the hype. We will try it a little longer and see.</p>
<p>Did buy some Melona and Magnum ice cream bars. In HI, it’s not really much hotter than usual–we’re in the 80s and doing OK with the tradewinds.</p>
<p>It has been (relatively) cold and rainy in Michigan. We keep our thermostat set to 72 or 74 year round… We live in a ranch house and have about five feet of insulation in the attic, it’s my favorite thing about this house.</p>
<p>Last summer our uber expensive luxury townhouse had no ac all summer, and we spent all day at my parents house laying out by the pool, and all night in front of the tv, watching episodes of The Killing in the dark, fans blasting, with ice cream. that summer was more fun than this one is turning out to be, apart from my make up melting in my own apartment and paying out the nose for an apt with a broken ac and dishwasher.</p>
that summer was more fun than this one is turning out to be, apart from my make up melting in my own apartment and paying out the nose for an apt with a broken ac and dishwasher.</p>