What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Minion-Queen said:
Good morning everyone! Rainy and cool here again today. I really do miss Austin.
Hot and sunny here again. We keep being promised rain but none arrives.
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@Minion-Queen said:
They are saying we will be getting a hard winter here this year. First frost is between the 15-25 and first snow on Halloween. But we are usually at the end of Peak colors for fall. And things are just turning now. So we are a little behind here this year.
NY snow on halloween isn't unheard of, right? Not a dramatic start to the year.
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@dafyre said:
@gjacobse That's what we have been saying down here in the deep south. This summer was short and mild down here. Usually indicative of a rougher winter coming up. It's October and we're already running the heat at night. That normally isn't necessary until around Thanksgiving, lol.
Wow, we don't have our heat on here yet. I'm hoping I won't have to worry about it until the end of October. If it is any indication we didn't turn our heat on until November 2nd last year. Although we use coal as our main source of heat and that is a bit more work to get going... probably me being super lazy was the issue.
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We had coal till April of last year and bought a Pellet furnace. So happy to have that. Takes like 2 minutes to start up the first time and so much cleaner.
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@Minion-Queen said:
We had coal till April of last year and bought a Pellet furnace. So happy to have that. Takes like 2 minutes to start up the first time and so much cleaner.
No doubt. We get coal for significantly less then we can get pellets and I did all the labor setting it up and plumbing it into the baseboard system. After spending $5,700 the first winter we were here on oil and spending ~$1,100 on coal last year it is working out fairly well. My wife isn't too pleased with the coal dust everywhere though :(.
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Yeah we had propane boiler heat. We spent close to $5K one year keeping the house at 60. So we switched to wood, then upgraded to coal and now to Pellets. We realized that without a teenager to help with the hauling of wood or coal that we didn't want to keep it up. He will be moving out eventually. The Pellets are something I even I can do myself without help. And is so much cleaner. It is more than the coal was though.
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Going to be 91 here today.
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We have to keep stepping into the pool to stay cool.
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It's supposed to be 36C here on Friday and Saturday... might change though as it's still a few days away. It was only 22C today.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We have to keep stepping into the pool to stay cool.
Good place to be. How's the humidity?
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@nadnerB said:
It's supposed to be 36C here on Friday and Saturday... might change though as it's still a few days away. It was only 22C today.
Ewww, that is quite a bit worse than here. Is it dry there? Very humid here. Heat index is always pushing towards 40+
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
We have to keep stepping into the pool to stay cool.
Good place to be. How's the humidity?
Jinx on the humidity. It's awful. Tropical rain forest.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
Ewww, that is quite a bit worse than here. Is it dry there?
Dry heat, so the washing is mostly dry in 10 minutes.
Very humid here. Heat index is always pushing towards 40+
Pretty gross when you add heat
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
Ewww, that is quite a bit worse than here. Is it dry there?
Dry heat, so the washing is mostly dry in 10 minutes.
Very humid here. Heat index is always pushing towards 40+
Pretty gross when you add heat
Oh yeah, here the washing is literally still wet the next day!
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Welcome to living in the jungle where nothing is ever dry. You get used to it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Here is the fountain that I am sitting beside:
How old is the house you are in? When was it built?
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I need an office that looks/sounds like that... and is warm enough to use.
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Don't know the details but between the 1500s and the 1700s. From the construction I am pretty sure it is on the latter side. Probably early 1700s. It is right downtown in the oldest European colonial city in the New World, so everything down here is ancient.
