Not a fan
By Genipher
@Genipher (5405)
United States
August 25, 2016 5:43pm CST
It's been hot. Miserably hot. So we turn on the A/C and it chugs away, working hard to do barely anything.
To make living more tolerable we close all the curtains and live in the dark.
I'm starting to feel a bit like Dracula! Any beam of light that passes into the house has me hissing.
We also fill the living room with fans.
Little F, apparently, doesn't agree with that move.
Every time I turn around he's unplugging them.
Over and over we correct him, plug the things back in, stand in front of what little breeze we can stir, and try not to die.
Next thing we know the house is a sweltering sauna because the one-year-old can't keep his little nubs off the knobs!
Gah!
Can it be winter yet? Please!?
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
25 Aug 16
Guess what? And this is the first time it has ever happened to me...I had a dream and in my dream you were there! A couple of months back somebody posted a discussion in mylot about dreaming of a mylot member and never had i thought it would happen to me. And when i saw this discussion of yours, I suddenly just recalled my dream! Pretty weird!
Please don't rush the winter, it'll be too cold lol!
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
26 Aug 16
@Genipher Nope, in my dreams I was mylotting and talking to you and we were discussing about a common experience. That was it. Nothing fancy lol!
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
26 Aug 16
@toniganzon
That's still amusing...and I feel sort of honored, in a weird way. 
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
26 Aug 16
Well, we don't get nearly as hard as the southern states with the heat. It still gets rather miserable here.
Really? The whiten noise of the fan doesn't do it for you, eh? I've found them to be helpful in keeping little ones asleep. It drowns out the noise of what's going on around them.
His name starts with the letter F...and he's our sixth child.
We're going alphabetically.
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
26 Aug 16
gotta love those toddlers, eh? i feel fer ya, hon. 'twas like that here back'n july - almost the entire month 'twas those temps reached o'er the century mark - jest miserable :(
i'll give ya the winter to come here, k? i aint lookin' ferward to't myself.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
26 Aug 16
@Genipher sendin' ya cool hugs, hon. we'd thought we'd get those monsoon rains to nourish the lands here, such didn't occur 'n we remain with drought...'gain.
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
26 Aug 16
@crazyhorseladycx
That's one thing Oregon doesn't deal with. At least not yet. Do you guys gather rain in barrels, when you have your "monsoon"?
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
27 Aug 16
luckily that has a shield screen or he'd be exploring the paddles that rotate !
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
27 Aug 16
@responsiveme
Ah, I'm familiar with that scenario, too. sigh.
And all the chains for the ceiling fans have been broken, so now they're real short. And ugly.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
27 Aug 16
@Genipher We have ceiling fans and my boys tried stopping the rotating blades with a stick......thatwas a long time ago.
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
26 Aug 16
We live in a house that has 20 inch thick stone walls that means it stays cool in summer and warm(ish) in winter. The building has been standing more than 400 years and was built to last - but not built with humans in mind as until 30-odd years ago it was an agricultural barn.
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
26 Aug 16
lol Don't rush things. Time is going to fast already. He might think it's funny to unplug things. You could put the fan against the wall so he won't get to the cord.
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(Just joking of course.)
So no snow or nuthin'?
@resolvingpartner (139)
• Turin, Italy
26 Aug 16
I dislike the summer for that. But summer is the time when the schools close, so it's good for that :P
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