Summer in Australia can be crazy - this year's certainly is.
Our house is designed to be eco-friendly - lots of louvres and windows positioned to capture the breeze but no air-conditioning. Ninety-nine percent of the time this doesn't worry me. We're now in the other one percent. We do have a pool, but as anyone with fair skin will tell you, the Aussie sun burns! So I don't visit the pool during the middle of the day. No matter how much I might want to. The coolest part of our house today is our garage. Gromit the wonder dog is stretched out on the cool concrete floor with a gentle breeze coming from the evaporative cooler (which has a reservoir filled with ice). Being thirteen, we need to keep her comfortable. She has a paddle in the pool, comes in and lies down in the breeze and dreams of days gone by. I worry about her old bones on cold concrete, but when she chooses it over the four beds available, I figure I should let her be. Misty, on the other hand, is living up to her nickname of PigPen (from the Charlie Brown comics). She's found some dirt under our trees, scratched out a nice hollow and is sound asleep out there. All very well and good until she tries to come inside, with dust and sand and bits of tree stuck to her sides. I now have a packet of wet wipes at the door and give both sides a quick wipe before she comes in. I am writing today. Working on a short story that started over a box of Lindt chocolates from Christmas. Then its onto editing my futuristic novel. I'm slowly tightening and reorganising my first three chapters. Wish me luck. 21/1/2014 03:44:32 am
I hear you. Despite the fact that I was born and raised here, I despise the hot summers. I'm keeping as cool as I can and our hound is currently enjoying a similar favourite past-time to your "PigPen" and is currently under the van in a "dug out" created for the purposes of keeping cool. She'll re-appear, about four-ish, covered in dirt and looking for a game. 21/1/2014 09:31:17 am
It is stifling at the moment. I'm glad Gromit and Misty have been able to find the coolest places. I've been in air-con but feeling 'locked in'. I'm almost looking forward to returning to work tomorrow: I'll have air-con and will be exactly where I need to be all day without any possibility of going anywhere else.
Fiona Greene
28/1/2014 06:24:43 am
Hey EE, I envy you the air-conditioning on weeks like last week. I've been writing in the libraries around the place to use their air conditioning - thank you city council!
Allison
21/1/2014 12:19:05 pm
Yes it was even hot here today! Trust the dogs I say - concrete and shady dirt work well for mine, oh unless it's the carpet under the ceiling fan! Think this is the first time I've heard you say it was 'really hot' at your place. Great to hear your writing is progressing, good luck for your Little Gems submission.
Fiona Greene
28/1/2014 06:26:47 am
Hi Allison, thanks for your encouragement on the writing - submission is sent. It is the first time I've thought it was really hot, but we're spending time downstairs while the deck is being repainted/repaired, so we're missing our cooling nights on the deck. Looking forward to getting back out there again once its finished. Comments are closed.
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