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kevin_standlee) wrote2024-06-07 02:13 pm
kevin_standlee) wrote2024-06-07 02:13 pm
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Swamp Season
Just over a month ago was the last time we used the fireplace. Two days ago, the heat hit: highs around 37°C (that's human body temperature), with the living room getting up to 27°C (I consider 20°C ideal). It was time to break out the cooler.
Lisa rolled out the evaporative "swamp" cooler out of storage and I filled its approximately 25 l water tank using the bucket, which holds around 8 l. We have to manually fill it because there's no convenient way to connect it to a water supply, but we've managed to live with it. It's no worse than having to bring in firewood for the fireplace, and we don't even have to go outside to do so, as we can fill the bucket from the kitchen tap.
I dislike the heat much more than the cold. While the swamp cooler is generally pretty effective in our low-humidity climate in making things more tolerable, I can never seem to get it cool enough to be actually comfortable. It was hot enough today that after I ran over to Walgreens for a small errand, I took a much longer way home than usual that took me up the freeway to Wadsworth and then back to Fernley so that I could run the Astro's newly-refurbished air conditioning at max for a little while. (It doesn't work very well at low RPMs.)
Lisa rolled out the evaporative "swamp" cooler out of storage and I filled its approximately 25 l water tank using the bucket, which holds around 8 l. We have to manually fill it because there's no convenient way to connect it to a water supply, but we've managed to live with it. It's no worse than having to bring in firewood for the fireplace, and we don't even have to go outside to do so, as we can fill the bucket from the kitchen tap.
I dislike the heat much more than the cold. While the swamp cooler is generally pretty effective in our low-humidity climate in making things more tolerable, I can never seem to get it cool enough to be actually comfortable. It was hot enough today that after I ran over to Walgreens for a small errand, I took a much longer way home than usual that took me up the freeway to Wadsworth and then back to Fernley so that I could run the Astro's newly-refurbished air conditioning at max for a little while. (It doesn't work very well at low RPMs.)