Calli - nevermind. I am becoming one with the couch for the evening.

Happy Cook-out Day, y'all. DH and I are celebrating by listening to the thunderstorm / hail going on outside. Thankfully we already grilled our steaks before the downpour. Hopefully the weather is holding up better in other states.

I finally watched How To Train Your Dragon today, which was adorable. I think I might need to own that one when it comes out on dvd. I saw it at the cheap theatre so I'm assuming it isn't out on dvd yet.

It's usually down to 82 by bedtime, which is sleepable with the ceiling fan.

I have to agree with Zen on this one. There's no way that I could sleep if it was 82 in the bedroom. Well, maybe with drugs. Really good drugs. And some alcohol.

We lived in Las Vegas for a year when I was in grade school. We didn't have air conditioning. I'm pretty damn certain that my insomnia issues started that year.

Now I'm watching the Pops and etc. do pieces from this Kennedy brothers thing -- someone wrote music for people to read stuff about and by them, basically. Anyway, I'm thinking about how Jack and Teddy, at least, were not good guys, but were still Great Men anyway. (We still think Bobby was a saint, right?)

Calli - nevermind. I am becoming one with the couch for the evening.

Yeah, sorry I missed your earlier post. I wandered away from b.org to the wilds of Gabriel-centric SPN fic for a while.

Damp PNW is not the same as humid. I don't think we're going to need AC this summer at all--which is good, since we're AC-free. A couple of warm days the house has gotten stuffy, so we put fans in the windows to pull the cool air through from the woods out back, and the house is completely comfortable. We are so grateful, since we come from the same hothouse as Zenkitty.

Bonny, a batten is a straight piece of "material", Merriam Webster tells me, most often wood. Run through the dogs, C, U, or O-shaped fastenings, on a ship's hatch, it kept the hatch cover closed in rough weather, thus the phrases "batten down the hatches", or "dog the hatches" in prep for storms.

The straight piece of wood is also used in architecture; when you butt two boards together vertically and nail a batten over the seam, you have board-and-batten siding.

Scrappy, I loved your HH ep! The improvement on your house and yard's appearance is so dramatic--I know all of you worked really hard, and it shows. The neatest thing is that there are people who can look at a house or a landscape and "see" how color and scale and placement can improve things so drastically. I'm so glad you guys got the benefit of the designers' expertise!

H and I had a low-key anniversary yesterday. We're planning a schmancy dinner out at the casino later this week. That should be fun. It's worked out so far, I guess I'll keep him.

I don't have a/c in my house. But rarely need it. In hotels I usually set it to 72 unless it's really warm to start. I like it cold at night so I can sleep with covers

board-and-batten siding

I've installed that stuff.

Happy anniversary, Bev! And wishing you many more.

82 and no humidity is vastly different. When I was in NM, one night I went out after dark and actually got chilly, with it being that and breezy. And it is 83 here and still feels pretty oppressive out there.

Loki is crying to go out. Which, given I haven't watered my plants, and he always manages to escape when I do that...he's about to get. For a minute, the little shit.

Thank you!

I've installed that stuff.

They make fake B&B in four by eight sheets. The real stuff looks so much better, but it's a pain to do, plus, way more expensive.

we bailed on the fireworks. getting dinner with uncle g took a bit longer than we expected and mac was fading, so I decided why push it. The humidity seems to be going up this evening and none of us need the rush rush rush of trying to do every single thing. Now we are home and are both tired and sweaty, but chillaxin'. Bedtime shortly.