Monday June 13, 2005
Okay. Those residents of Canada who were complaining about the coolish weather a few weeks ago put your hands up. Wishing you could take all that back now, are you not?
Is there any other place on the planet that can go from one temperature extreme to the other in just a few months? This might not be a country after all. Might be one of those chambers for testing the ruggedness of new products.
I am thankful I have graduated from 24/7 with the collar. It kept me warm long before the heat wave hit. I can take it off indoors and drape a wet towel over my neck or I can go outside with it on. Not a tough choice so far.
I did go out on Saturday. Briefly. The lure was a ride in an air conditioned car. We ventured to the banks of the river, sat in the shade watching people and fowl. Wading in the river at the location we chose was not as conducive to cooling as we'd hoped, so a cool treat from DQ was the runner up. The air conditioning was marvelous, though. Thanks Rob.
Sitting indoors leads to mucking on the blog in progress which is fine; at least something productive is coming of this.
Talking with my sister (Happy Birthday, kiddo!) and daughter today led to trading ideas for beating the heat since none of us has air conditioning. (It's a Canadian thing this aversion to things that cool.) Linda suggested putting damp underwear in the freezer and then putting them on once they were frozen. Stephanie had a similar idea using bottles of water and then placing them around you while laying down.
At various times today I have tried cold showers (again, really happy to be collar free for those) followed by evaporative drying, wet towels and ice packs. One of the windows gets sun most of the day; tonight I have covered the glass part with tin foil in an attempt to prevent heat from building up.
The fridge is part of the problem in my small space. I realized it was more of a problem than previously thought during the foil project - the fridge being right beside the window. Quite a temperature difference from one side of the window to the other. To encourage venting I have cracked open that side of the window and fashioned a sort of heat channel with the curtain. This will hopefully keep some bugs out as well - only one side has a screen.
There are containers of water in my freezer just in case I cannot sleep again tonight, but no underwear.
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