Shelter Cat Update!

Air conditioning is MY LIFE!! I grew up without it at my Nannie’s in the summer. Working the fields and coming home to the shade at least felt...coolish. There’s a story that when I was a toddler my mama and grandmother left me on a little pile of blankets while they went out to cut corn and the sash window was…

I didn’t have air conditioning until I was an adult and I have an astonishing tolerance of absolutely ridiculously awfully hot weather. I will fight and kick to not put on the air. My boyfriend on the other hand has very little tolerance for any temperature variance, and will turn the AC on at the drop of a hat. This…

It has not been as hot in Ohio as in the South and Southwest, but the humidity has been too much for the two window AC units that came with the apartment and five fans, including two box fans, so I bought a dehumidifier, and things have been much more comfortable. I mostly have been using the fans facing outwards for…

Oh lord, I’m sorry. You’re right—it’s a big, sad club. My dad was an abusive alcoholic—when I lived with him, I never felt secure that everyone would be alive in the morning (partly because he’d get violent when challenged, partly because he’d fall asleep smoking, and burn things). I get that father’s day is fraught,…

I hear ya—I remember when I was a kid and we didn’t have air conditioning, the heat would sometimes get so bad I’d go try to sleep in the (musty, stinky) basement. My dad’s girlfriend’s son would sleep on the roof of the garage. I bought my first air conditioner—used, clunky, drippy—in my twenties, when I was living…

Back in Texas my old housemate kept the house at 78 degrees during the day and I remember being uncomfortable. I go outside and the realize it’s not that bad inside because the center of hell is outside. She’d turn the AC down at night and my new climate change attitude is to accept discomfort in exchange for doing…

No one ever knows exactly what’s going on with vaccinations here in Panama, but the word is that second shots are starting soon in my province. Exciting if true!

Also: naps and violence ;-) (granted, we didn’t need air conditioning as badly this far from the equator before modern life heated everything up).

I need to talk about something I didn’t get to last weekend.

Gosh, I couldn't sleep in hot weather without AC. It's simply miserable, and fans don't cut it in really hot weather. 

Stay safe over there in those crazy temperatures! 

We put the air conditioners in in May, because there were a few days where it was 90, then memorial day weekend was frigid, and it’s back to gross and humid again, so I’m enjoying the fan function of my air conditioner right now!

I need a minor miracle. I made two more trips out to a neighboring county to try to get the remaining two strays from a family of four and I just don’t know what I am even doing anymore. I didn’t see the third kitten either day, so that’s a whole other problem, and the mom appears to have some serious periodontal…

Air conditioning is the one thing I will fight for in the environmental apocalypse. I figure I have a low carbon footprint in other areas—I rarely travel (even pre-covid); I eat a vegetarian diet and am slowly cutting back on dairy; I have no children; I am buying only used clothing (almost only used—underwear, sports…

Our old air conditioner broke after three or four years. I bought a new A/C from Home Depot on June 7, delivered June 10. It has wheels & vents to the outside through a hose. It cost a bit more than one that must be installed in a window, but it is so much less aggravating! Husband & I spent an hour or so installing…

If it makes you feel better Joe, having the American Catholic church turn against you is usually a sign that you are on the right side of history. 

Biden is doing exactly what he should: not allowing his beliefs, whatever they may be (and we have no idea about his personal stance ) to influence public policy of the government he was elected to run.

Cool, pull their tax exemptions.

“We can’t abuse them if they’re never born!”