Sweltering

Only one simple word comes to mind to describe the last few days here...Hot.  We had 5 days in a row with temps over 100.  Blech.  Those hot days, of course, are not helping in Colorado's fire fighting efforts.  Even though our local fire is growing smaller by the day more fires in other parts of the state seem to be springing up daily.  The latest one in Colorado Springs is also very tragic and growing rapidly, threatening thousands of homes at this time.  We continue to do a rain dance with little results.

The weekend started out our stretch of scorchers so, of course, we were doing a favor for one of Eric's friends and played Brewery Representative at the Fort Collins Brewfest.  Highs temps and free beer (for us anyway) definitely made for a long exhausting weekend.  But we managed to have a little fun.  Doesn't our tent look good?

Now, we don't have central air.  We haven't really missed it too much over the last 4 years we've lived in this house.  The downstairs stays relatively cool and it (usually) cools off enough at night that we don't have to put window unit in our bedroom until at least July.  Well, due to the smoke and inability to keep the windows open, the bedroom AC went in ahead of schedule.  And then these last few days have brought me to the breaking point to find a solution besides holing up in our bedroom all the time, since we can't all fit in the dryer...

 By yesterday I was feeling pretty groggy and crabby when a friend called and asked up if we could use an extra window unit that didn't work in their place.  I pondered this over since we have never tried to cool the downstairs.  We have an open floor plan including open staircase and upstairs hallway.  But it was worth a shot.  I went and picked in up and put it in the window myself, then got creative to manage the air flow

Classy right?!  But the important thing is that it is working and our downstairs is pleasant again.  I guess we'll just have to pretend we're in a tent for the rest of the summer.