HA! At least you suffered like the rest of us over the weekend, lol! It was so hot yesterday that I was worried about the kittens in the garage, but they were crashed out on the cooler concrete floor and had been eating and drinking - and using their box, so we figured that that water loss wasn't all from evaporation, thank goodness! We, inside the house, suffered. It was so hot I didn't even put the window a/c unit in because I was afraid I'd let it slip because I was sweating so bad. I'm gonna charge the cordless drill tomorrow and get that puppy in the window! That's when Colin usually migrates from hanging out in the bedroom, to hanging out in "my room" which is the living room. The a/c won't reach his bedroom. My parents, however, did give us an ancient (but fabulous) attic window fan that sucks the air out of a room and cooler air in - so we put that in the bedroom for him and it's actually a few degrees cooler in there. The thermostat hit 83 or 84 on Sunday!
I went down and opened the basement windows that are in the glass block to get some air
through there - it's leaky and it's so dank smelling down there that we don't even want to run the furnace fan - ugh! That usually helps us out in the summer but I forgot totally the last 2 summers. I don't know how I forgot other than I'm scared to death of my own basement! The first day or 2 that I lived in the house, I was in the furnace room with the furnace guy, Steve, who was finishing the install, telling me what stuff meant, blah blah blah. He stepped out for a few mins and there are 2 ancient ash shoots that catch the ash from the fire place when you're done with the fire (never seen that before!) and one was missing its door, so I opened the other? Out flies a black widow spider - thank heavens I had shoes on!
It died. Of unnatural causes. Very unnatural causes. Like my shoe. On concrete. lol! Ever since then I've been creeped out by my own basement!
I've lived in the house just over 4 years - I've probably only gone down there 50 times - which is very few times to visit an area with the furnace filters to be changed and laundry to be done. I just did the math - I've been down there approx. once a month for the last 50 months, lol! Colin does it now (I love you Colin!) - I just take care of the de-humidifier, which is also full up right now and not draining so I get to go down there in the next couple days (double ugh!)
Boy-o am I jabbering on tonight! I'm too hot to sleep so I'm watching movies on netflix and trying not to melt!
Seriously though, blkhwk, I hope you're happy back in land of sun & sand - Bell-font-in is not exactly living in society (better than here though, lol!) and I'm sure you'll love being down there without having to travel back and forth
Plus, we all know you'll still be coming here so, meh Ohio - enjoy Florida, lol!
