Last couple days ahve been so humid that I cannot use the swamp cooler anymore; it just makes it hotter inside. than outside, and humid enough to make the carpet damp and the walls sticky.
So I curtained off all of the house except the bedrooms in front that have the window AC units, turned those on, and stuck fans in the doorways to cool the front room of the house (where the dogs stay when I am not here), and those two rooms. The rest of the house gets hotter than it does outside, during the day, and then at night I open the hot parts up to the outside to cool off (*down* to
only about 90-95F from their 110-120F daytime temps), leaving the AC on the other three curtained-off rooms.
The curtains are layers of heavy blankets, which I also have over the windows, doors, etc. Keeps the heat out of those rooms and the cool air in, so that it stays between only 85-90F in the day and 80-85F at night, giving me and the dogs a place to live relatively comfortably in. But I have to leave the AC on or those rooms will get unlivably hot (for the dogs) in a couple of hours even at night.
I used to have a little misting sprayer on the window AC in my bedroom, but someone stole the mister and the garden hose it was on, a while back. So I have now an ugly cracking cast-resin squirrel sprinkler on the end of a cracked and rotting hose, since no one will likely steal those. It sits on the shelf with the AC unit, spraying a light drizzle into the heat exchanger grille outside, to keep that part cooler which in turn makes it actually blow cold air inside (so cold that it freezes up sometimes).
Similar thing in the backyard for the other bedroom windw AC unit, but I don't have to worry so much about that one being stolen, so I use the garden hose handle-sprayer on Mist, with the water turned way down at the faucet. That AC unit doesnt' freeze up, since it's nto a very good one and it never does blow really super cold air no matter what you do to it, even when it's really cold outside (tested for an experiment).
Tonite has been a blessing, being only about 85F outside right now, and it's actually only 75F in the cooled parts of the house! To celebrate, I took some more pics, but the dogs moved too much in all but two of them, blurring the rest too much to tell what they were of. :lol:
Size comparison of Hachi and Nana:
Nana sort of looks bigger because her head is larger and her legs/feet are bigger around, but her body is skinnier than Hachi's and her fur is flatter. Hachi is a few millimeters taller than Nana at the shoulder now, a few shorter at the rump. Hachi is two pounds more than Nana right now, at 93lbs vs 91.
This is from several months ago:
when Hachi was only about 7 weeks old. Hasn't grown much , has she? :lol:
A group shot, missing only Fred because she was sleeping behind the bike across the room behind me.
He has become alot more grey than he used to be. He just loves the water out of the garden hose and will act like a puppy chasing and biting the water.
