Hot.
I found a box fan I’d scavenged from J&H’s cast-offs and stashed in Landlady’s barn 2 years ago. Ran it last night after sundown, as much to note its effect on the batteries as anything else. It didn’t have a particularly dramatic effect on the newly-expanded batteries, or unfortunately on the Lair’s internal temperature. But at the moment it’s sucking in the cool morning air. We never got any trace of the evening breeze I pretty much depend on for life at this special time of the year, and it feels like I just laid there and sweat for six hours. So Uncle Joel is sluggish and crabby this morning.
Good news: I don’t have to rush out to deal with Ghost’s issues first thing. Bad news: It’s not going to be a great day for getting construction work done. I do have to go over to Landlady’s barn while it’s cool and deal with the big mess I made of my flat stock, though, and then see how nearly square my foundation structure turns out to be in practice. Then I turn my thoughts to the framing, but if you think I should be trudging back and forth hauling 80 2X4s to the Lair while in this mood and condition I want to see your logo on my paycheck or you can keep your opinion to yourself. 🙂
It’s gonna be another hot one. I may spend the afternoon hiding in Ian’s Cave.
I know the feeling Joel, I’m just taking a break from power washing a very long (it goes all around the house) deck. It’s not yet 9 and the temp is already climbing. Hot and dreary work is not something I thought I’d be into at this stage in the game but the alternative of paying some college kid to do it just doesn’t sit well.
Good luck with your tasks and don’t forget to drink, drink, drink lots of water and take breaks.
What’s your water situation out there? Do you have a pump, or is every drop hauled in from elsewhere? Sounds like it’s “fill the water trough and soak the day away” weather to me, but that’s only feasible if you have easily accessible, and sufficiently abundant, water.
It’s so hot in Phoenix that flights are being canceled at Sky Harbor. Be glad you’re up there in the “cool” elevations.
Seriously, I know how miserable it can get. I’m glad you have Ian’s cave to retreat to.
I have effectively unlimited water until the next time the well pump breaks down. Really wish I had a better plan B than “pull it out of the well and wait till I can ship it to Ian,” but that’s plan B for running water at the Lair. I only Jeep in my drinking water. The well water isn’t actively toxic, but it turned out all that dissolved calcium was doing me no good.
I even used to know where there was an old cast iron bathtub just lying on a junk heap. Possibly it’s still there. It would have made a very fine hot weather lawn tub, but Clark Kent never happened by to help me move it. Also it was a dumb idea unless I was really willing to build a pergola and drain system for a tub I might actually use 3 or 4 times in a summer, because sitting in a tub full of water in the direct sun is … well, a more dumb idea than it looks in those resort commercials. Even with shade it would attract every Tarantula Hawk for miles.
Yeah, I’ve been to Phoenix. That place is absurd. Saguaro country is the dumbest place to put a city I can imagine south of the Arctic Circle. There may be parts of Saudi that get hotter in season, but I doubt it. At its worst the high desert is far more clement than that.
Yeah, yeah, Phoenix is hot in the summertime. However, every other place I’ve lived is just as hot. What Phoenix does temperature-wise everywhere else makes up for it humidity-wise on the miserably hot scale. Besides in the winter I never have to shovel snow or wear much more than a sweater.
Joel, I’m glad you have a place to retreat to when it gets too hot. Once you get your bedroom built you won’t have to sleep in the attic anymore in the summer time.
Joel:
Please take care if yourself heatwise.
My ex lives near Phoenix. Must mean something…