Hot and humid with a side order of moist today.\u00a0\u00a0 Same as yesterday, although “hot” is stretching it a bit.\u00a0 It all feels hot when you can’t retreat into the airconditioning.<\/p>\n
Contractor got the old A\/C system removed, pulled all the ducts, and set the new major components.\u00a0\u00a0 Today he’ll run the rest of the ducts and commission the system.<\/p>\n
I brought a small window unit home for the master bedroom, and a small freestanding unit for the hall and the other two bedrooms.\u00a0\u00a0 They are a bit undersized for the job, but have knocked 5-8 degrees F off the air temp,\u00a0 and knocked the humidity way down.\u00a0 I’ve got the windows open (with screens) in the rest of the house, but used the A\/C to make the humidity tolerable for sleeping.\u00a0 It was 89%RH outside and 50%RH inside when I went to bed.\u00a0 I have been picking up window units, and the freestanding units when they were cheap, because our most likely disaster involves cooling not heating to make a house comfortable.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The freeze was an aberration, but I had temporary heat too, because I prep.<\/p>\n
I could have brought a couple more units home, or the bigger units, but these were the easiest to get to, and it’s only for one night.\u00a0 I’m dumping the heat into the hall bath, where I have\u00a0 a box fan in the window to move the heat out of the house.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve discovered that I didn’t bring enough flex duct home for the exhaust side.\u00a0\u00a0 This is why we USE our preps.\u00a0 Next time I’ll know better.\u00a0 BTW I like having multiple smaller units so that I can pick and choose capacity to match need, and available power.<\/p>\n
Today’s plan is to pick up an item or two, mainly another couple of buckets of freeze dried emergency food.\u00a0 Yesterday I got a bunch of stuff for the BOL, including a couple of extension poles.\u00a0 I have several and use them for antenna mounts.\u00a0\u00a0 I figured a couple more, particularly extra tall and sturdy ones, would be worth having.<\/p>\n
My ridiculously heavy fence pipes were dropped off yesterday at the BOL.\u00a0\u00a0 I need to set the corners around the garden this weekend.\u00a0 We’re supposed to head up there and work through Mother’s Day.\u00a0\u00a0 One of my goals is to get something, anything, in the ground in the garden.\u00a0 Even if it gets eaten by deer, I need to see if stuff will grow there.<\/p>\n
And that should be enough planning to tempt the fates…<\/p>\n
Find a gap and fill it.\u00a0\u00a0 Get your garden started.\u00a0\u00a0 While you are buying seed, buy extra and stack it.<\/p>\n
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Hot and humid with a side order of moist today.\u00a0\u00a0 Same as yesterday, although “hot” is stretching it a bit.\u00a0 It all feels hot when you can’t retreat into the airconditioning.<\/p>\n
Contractor got the old A\/C system removed, pulled all the ducts, and set the new major components.\u00a0\u00a0 Today he’ll run the rest of the ducts and commission the system.<\/p>\n
I brought a small window unit home for the master bedroom,<\/p>\n