Sometimes you win…
Yesterday it was 107 with the heat index. Today it was even warmer. We walked down to the mail box to get the paper (1/4 mile). Then worked in the garden for about 20 minutes which was as long as we could take. Paul got the yard prepped for mowing–lots of branches and twigs came down in the rain last night.
I worked on the rosemary slice of the herb garden. Our herb garden is a big circle and the rosemary bit is one eighth of it. I had to pull out all the rosemary plants last years as they were really getting leggy. So this year I’m replanting with some new ones. I only got about half of the slice weeded and the dirt ready for planting. It was just too hot. Then it didn’t really cool enough in the late afternoon to go out. Well, okay we could have gone out but by then I was working on some indoor stuff.
Anyway, in view of the heat we’re having, I thought I’d use a picture of the Heat Miser doll for this post. I love Christmas and the TV and movies at that time (otherwise I hate the commercialism). But the song from the show keeps going through my head. It’s so lucky that we didn’t wait to get the furnace replaced. We (meaning me) would have been unable to manage this heat without air conditioning and we’re even under trees and fairly shaded from direct sun in the house.
It’s times like these when I really wonder how peopled lived in the heat without being able to change their environment to suit them. I do realize that in those days houses were built to help with that and now-a-days we build all the houses the same no matter where in the country they are or what the environmental conditions are. For example, I’d say in the tornado alley area, people should really be building underground or earthship type housing, which would be better able to survive a tornado — especially an underground house. We saw some of those when we were in Coober Pedy, Australia. They build underground because of the tremendous heat in the desert were the town is located (with some of the house above ground). However, underground housing is cooler in heat and easier to heat in the cold.
Wonder why no one is touting people looking at alternative housing for the energy crisis.