Cooling 
LIVING WITHOUT AC(23)
We were spoiled this summer! With the second coolest summer ever recorded there was more sweater time than swim suits. But Nature sure wasn’t going to let us go into fall and winter without one hot blast and, boy, is it a good one. Yesterday, it was the hottest day ever recorded in downtown LA. 113
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GOING OFF THE AC
I just wrote about not being able to work the AC at the last event saying it was good practice for the future. I picked up that quite a few people were uncomfortable with the room being warm but if only they knew it has hip and trendy now! With this latest article in the NY [...]
(21) ANOTHER SHINY SOLAR OVEN
FACT: every day the sun shines, an equivalent of 4.25 TRILLION barrels of oil falls on the US alone in the form of solar energy I have a confession, I been addicted to solar ovens ever since we built our first cardboard, aluminum oven back in the days — 1990 to be exact. Yep, we [...]
(8) ALL IN A DAYS WORK
Nitty gritty Another sweaty, dirty, dusty, filthy day for the guys. This awful humidity makes an already dirty job even worse – the dust just sticks to the skin and becomes muddy. We are all certainly thankful for the sun shower – we are certainly using it a lot these days. As for me, [...]
(4) INTERDEPENDENCE DAY
It’s another hot and humid day – yuck! Let me see now, we are going on over a week of this hot and sticky weather. Sorry for the lack of postings lately, things have been busy as you may have guessed and besides it’s just to darn hot to sit in front of a computer. [...]
(2) THIS & THAT
Fo-ti vine screen Passive Cooling To keep our house cool during the brutal summer months, the guys erected two passive cooling, living-trellises a few years back which runs along the hottest side of the house. A Chinese herbal vine grows on one and a passion fruit on the other. We’ve noticed a considerable difference these [...]
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