Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

curious2garden

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Did some googling, and aspen shavings are still king despite low lifetime.
Mine are cellulose. If you want Aspen shavings you may need to select another cooler unless you can find custom pads.

 

manfredo

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110°+ is expected in the late summer months about 10 minutes from here...
It's a different heat though...Our 90F feels like your 110F because of the humidity. I'm in an old manufacturing city and very few of these old homes have AC. Window units are common, or now with mini splits those are getting more common...And good old fans. It almost always cools off at night.A box fan in a window works miracles. I have a couple of window units but only use them a few weeks of the year....But I like it warmer too!
 

Metasynth

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It's a different heat though...Our 90F feels like your 110F because of the humidity. I'm in an old manufacturing city and very few of these old homes have AC. Window units are common, or now with mini splits those are getting more common...And good old fans. It almost always cools off at night.A box fan in a window works miracles. I have a couple of window units but only use them a few weeks of the year....But I like it warmer too!
My grandparents lived in Black Lake, NY...I'm all too familiar with your devils humidity...lol


Also, I was lucky enough to attend Action Park before they completely ruined it.

Ah...Traction Park....Or Class-Action Park...lol
 

Laughing Grass

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It's a different heat though...Our 90F feels like your 110F because of the humidity. I'm in an old manufacturing city and very few of these old homes have AC. Window units are common, or now with mini splits those are getting more common...And good old fans. It almost always cools off at night.A box fan in a window works miracles. I have a couple of window units but only use them a few weeks of the year....But I like it warmer too!
I did the a/c unit in a sliding balcony door in my first apartment... none of the windows opened. I swear that place was over 100° year round.
 

Romulanman

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I grew up in a house with an evaporative cooler and let me tell you those things wont work over 100. There is pluses and minuses for the "swamp" cooler tho. Your house plants will fucking LOVE it. I always liked them because of the force of air. We had a huge 3/4hp blower motor on ours. Nothing like coming in from a summer run and laying underneath that shit. Nah we didn't have a pool. We was well below middle class lol. Hot ass days/weeks we would take those giant beach umbrellas up and cover the cooler then every so often keep dumping large blocks of ice into the water reservoir. It helped but it aint fucking AC.
 

Romulanman

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That's one thing I remember about Tucson...every house had a swamp cooler...I was fascinated by their simplicity and how well they worked, for cheap!
If you change pads every summer or two and keep up the spider maintenance for the flow to the pads it will last 20-30 years. You will change the blower motor every few years depending on use but it pales in comparison to fixing HVAC units.
 

manfredo

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I helped my parents sign up on the vaccine portal. Dad gets his on Friday morning and mom on April 4th. :hump:
I'm going to call my lil bro today...he doesn't use a computor...at all. Doesn't even text. Crazy eh? Figured I'd offer to get him an appt.....He needs it!!

Grey and rain here too today, but supposed to hit 75F tomorrow!!

I need groceries today. Hot dogs for dinner the last 2 nights, more so because I was trimming and too busy to cook. Ugh! My helper is MIA :cuss:
 

Laughing Grass

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I'm going to call my lil bro today...he doesn't use a computor...at all. Doesn't even text. Crazy eh? Figured I'd offer to get him an appt.....He needs it!!

Grey and rain here too today, but supposed to hit 75F tomorrow!!

I need groceries today. Hot dogs for dinner the last 2 nights, more so because I was trimming and too busy to cook. Ugh! My helper is MIA :cuss:
My parents are the same way. My dad has an flip phone, my mom has an iphone but she only uses it for texting, facetime and candy crush. No internet service in their house... weirdos. It's kinda dumb to make older people use the internet to register. They should be able to do it by phone as well.

Need to feed the machine, mystery meat is bad.

Yes and jeeps.
So there's still fun to be had. My partner had a Jeep wrangler, she got it before we met. I hated that thing! You barely see over the dashboard with the seat jacked all the way up. It was a standard transmission too, why anyone would want to drive that especially in the stop and go traffic here is beyond me.
 

DarkWeb

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My parents are the same way. My dad has an flip phone, my mom has an iphone but she only uses it for texting, facetime and candy crush. No internet service in their house... weirdos. It's kinda dumb to make older people use the internet to register. They should be able to do it by phone as well.

Need to feed the machine, mystery meat is bad.



So there's still fun to be had. My partner had a Jeep wrangler, she got it before we met. I hated that thing! You barely see over the dashboard with the seat jacked all the way up. It was a standard transmission too, why anyone would want to drive that especially in the stop and go traffic here is beyond me.
I'm not a big mud fan.....rocks, trails and camping yes...lol this mud is just above freezing too.

Damn you're short :P
 

Laughing Grass

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I'm not a big mud fan.....rocks, trails and camping yes...lol this mud is just above freezing too.

Damn you're short :P
I want to go on a four wheeler trip someday, that looks like it would be a lot of fun... without the camping part. I don't think it has anything to do with height, more shitty design. The center of the dashboard stuck up taller than the drivers area and speakers in the corners of the windshield blocked your view. My partner is a half foot taller than me and she also complained about visibility.
 

BudmanTX

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Morning everyone......hope everyone is good to go....

it's 52F this morning and a wakey......i'll bakey later after work.........79F for a high......we have a light misty fog this morning as well....

Well coffee is up and it's hot, so enjoy....

i'm gonna sit back and eat these taco's and have a cup of coffee........bacon and egg for today btw.......
 
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