According to the Weatherman

I think I wanted to cook because I had some stuff that needed to be used up. Your house sounds a bit like mine. I do open to two back doors hoping to get a breeze through. We do have window units for the bedrooms, and so we only cool the one we sleep in. I keep thinking that if I had a job I would be in a/c. I use small appliances and the microwave to cook.

@MarshaMusselman No, I am wanting a job to do some improvements on the house and also so that my husband does not feel like he has to keep working forever. Right now he enjoys it. He is seventy. I need the socialization. I am too isolated here. Structure of a job helps me as well. I can remember for a while working two jobs and taking classes all at the same time, while planning a wedding for my daughter. Like I said, we have four units we can use. We still need to remove some walls in kitchen and living rooms. Either this fall or next spring we will get one of the portable units that you vent out the window to use in the living space. We may buy two of them.

@GardenGerty Are you considering getting a job outside the home in order to afford a/c? That might work and may only be needed temporarily. For me, I'm working two jobs, but that's mainly because my husband is limited right now in the hours he can work and we're paying off his hospital bills from last spring and eight years ago. We're not making enough at present to even consider a/c, but it may work out before I fully retire.

@Mike197602 That would be awful. We have had freezes in the winter that at times put water treatment out of business.

There is a river at the far east end of our town. In 1951 they had a very bad flood that caused people to have to be removed from upper stories of buildings by boats. That resulted in a dam being built to protect the area and a reservoir for the support of it. It is still raining off and on and the air feels wonderful.

@GardenGerty we have floods most years in parts of worcester/gloucestershire. A few years ago it was really bad and a water treatment plant was put out of action so we had no water for a week or so.

I think the weather is different every year. We had a few wet days and now it is gone again.

It gets very windy here. I like it when the weather cools down after a storm.

@GardenGerty Toady with the humidity dropped from 75% to 35% was beautiful, also the temperature was down in the 80's.

@LadyDuck That sounds very comfortable indeed.

I was watching a weather report on television. It is a combination of heavy rain with strong winds in the nearest large city. An example is that on an interstate a power pole blew down. It damaged an overpass, and a car ran into it. All traffic ended up blocked.

@GardenGerty then you should be very careful

I do not mind the rain where I am, safe and cozy. Community garden is more of a community weed patch and mud bog at this time, though. By next season I will have established some container and raised bed plots at home. Quick to run out the door and work on them.

It is usually pretty nice in September. It is not usually this rainy in July either. Where I have moved we always have wind. I am in a rather exposed area at the top of a hill.