Swamp cooler update

The water level in all my pans is going down - so it's evaporating and that must help - I am also covering up the middle of the top of our gas stove where all the pilot lights are - to try to insulate IN the heat that comes from them (they are as low as possible & still hot...)

I should look for some cheese cloth that I can wet and drape over the window fan - even with everything the thermometer was at 85 yesterday! The sun beats down on the uninsulated roof and comes in the windows of our W-E. exposure.  And I wear minimalist clothes. (My husband loves it!)

Trying to put frozen bottles of water or beer cans filled with frozen water in front of fans - but doesn't last long...

Have to admit I slept the the AC on in the bedroom last night - extravagant, but I do like it & it's hard to get up to turn it off! 

One thing about the general energy crisis - it is easier to coordinate schedules to eliminate driving if not necessary.  My husband came home early and worked here yesterday.  Nice to have his company.

And my acting partner is going to come down here from her home in the valley and then go on to a SAG meeting down here.  We rehearsed the other day at a room with AC at the church....It's nice to have access to other facilities. 

My husband kept on telling me that 85 wasn't hot (and it's not as hot as the tropics, surely - and DRY) but as a Northerner by blood, I still find the heat trying - and just doing something about it makes me feel better.  The placebo effect? 

Cooler today - but the pans of water continue - I find that if I keep the apartment cool over time, the temperature doesn't get as high.  If I let it go, the heat just seems to sink in and cook the place - which makes it harder to cool off.  I am sure some more scientific mind could explain all this heat/energy transfer and conservation!

I just got the ideas from watching an old PBS Huell Howser program about how in the days before AC they had these "desert submarine" buildings in the S. Calif. desert - which were big swamp coolers you could sleep in - to survive the summer heat! And that led to noticing how some cultures put wet burlap on the windows for cooling....but we have to watch out for the floor - so hence the bowls!!

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I loved the reference to huell howser...he started out here in Tn.:)

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