Last night I had the guest bedroom and Walt tried to sleep on the sofa in the living room. It was hot when I went to bed, but sometime before midnight I threw the windows open and there was some movement of air, so I was able to sleep. Walt says the sofa is too soft for good sleeping, and he ended up going back upstairs for a while. We have a big fan up there. He turned that on and opened some windows, but he said he was still uncomfortably warm.
Downstairs in the guest room, I got about four hours of sleep. Then I got up at 4:30 to let Tasha to do her business and then to feed her. Walt heard me and the dog, so he came downstairs to see what we were doing. She's fed, I told him. And I said he should go lie down on the guestroom bed, close to a big window that was wide open. There was some movement of air from the back yard, but you could hardly call it a breeze. Anyway, he got two or three hours of shut-eye. I finished opening windows all around the house and took a little snooze on the living room sofa.
This morning Walt went down to the garage and succeeded in locating an air mattress we used to use on camping trips in California. We pumped it up and it seems to holds air. I hope Walt will be able to sleep on it tonight. The bad news is that today and tonight are supposed to be even hotter than yesterday and last night. It's already getting warm and muggy this morning.
That's a rough night! In my childhood in Louisville we went to our basement. We must have had cots down there. It was a scary place for a child with a large coal burning furnace. There was a shower down there also which can help.
ReplyDeleteWe always had a lot of hot, muggy weather in Morhead NC. I don't know how we survived it, but we did. I do remember that my father had a window unit for AC in his bedroom, but the rest of us< Ma, me, and Joanna had no AC.The only time Walt and I had AC in the U.S. was in Washington DC. No need for it in San Francisco or even in Silicon Valley.
DeleteOh, man oh man, again, I'm so sorry to know you're having to deal with this.
ReplyDeleteWow - I missed a couple days here. These temperature are incredible - some warmer than the Palm Springs desert. I hope everyone is safe and all the animals outside too are able to find some shade.
ReplyDeleteFor a few years we dragged a mattress off the spare bed downstairs. Then we got a portable air con unit upstairs which worked really well. That made us realise we needed air con upstairs. We installed two units, one at each end of the house upstairs. Game changer, life saver and worth every penny. We don’t use it that often but when we do it’s a blessing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jean. Maybe you can tell me what company you called on to have those AC unit installed.
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