Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!9dYadZ3yg7+EEuom1z2jfQ.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> Newsgroups: alt.polyamory Subject: Re: Stopping by Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 13:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <1foglh-ro7.ln1@anthive.com> <956olh-h43.ln1@anthive.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 9dYadZ3yg7+EEuom1z2jfQ.user.gioia.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.polyamory:32448 On 2021-05-01, songbird wrote: > umar wrote: > we need the AC here for Mom, but i'd gladly do without it > if i could. my sinuses don't like coming in from the warm > outside to cooler air or vice versa and i'd also like to be > able to acclimate to the heat during the summer but that > doesn't happen very much with the AC on. ah well, FWP... :) I can remember as a very young child in New Orleans, we didn't have AC. We just opened the windows and ran lots of fans. Our house was built on piles driven into the ground instead of a foundation, and I loved to crawl under the house and see all the bugs and other critters that lived there. I found pill bugs fascinating. It must have been hotter than the hinges of hell -- I remember we'd get intense downpours for 10 minutes or so, and then the sun would come out and we'd see steam rising from the streets. This was in the early 1960s. Air conditioning existed, but I remember only ever encountering it in a few stores my mother took me to. > i couldn't really enjoy that. i like gardening too much > to not have some strawberries and other plants that need > a fair amount of sun to be productive. My former wife and I bought the house back in 1988. Decades later, I'm still there. When my brother and I bought a handful of radio stations in northern New England, it was my plan to move up there, but circumstances haven't allowed that so far. There are aspects of living where I do that are very convenient; I am two blocks from the local commuter rail station, for one. But it would be nice to be out in the countryside, umar