Here in the San Fernando Valley it's hot. It's not like we didn't expect it to be this hot, just this year the heat's come late. In fact the weather has been gloriously comfortable and cheaper to run than last year. I doubt we've even used the air conditioning, except for when we've guests.
Our numerous guests have been ok with the weather, but we have them stay in a room above the garage...heat rises and loves to hang around our pals! At one point, our nephew's girlfriend nearly passed out whilst using the hair dryer. So I relented and showed them where the thermostat is! I know, I sound cheap. I kind of am though, when it comes to unnecessary waste. Our visitors are nearly always from the UK - when you leave a UK house you turn the thermostat down to reduce the heating bills... It's not their fault, it's just habit... and our bills. See I'm cheap!
Wednesday was even hotter for some. A friend of ours organized a private tour round Fire Station 41 as "a treat for our boys" so she said. However, she and Lynn seemed more interested in the calendar shoot potential of the firemen. Our boys loved it, we even got driven round the block in the Fire Truck. Both boys were smiling from their eyes... so were the ladies! I can't say much more as it's really difficult to avoid double entendres, but Lynn did say she'd seen a bigger hose...
Sounds like fun for all at the firehouse!
ReplyDeleteI've never really understood SoCal seasons. Though it normally does heat up earlier than happened this year, the hottest months always seem to be August, September, October, at least here in San Diego. Don't remember the timing seeming as late in LA, but maybe it was just because in the valleys it gets hotter, so you notice "summer" arriving earlier. Anyway, haven't so far found out what fluke of climatology causes the late summers.
Home climate control - a wonderful topic for a blog post, as it's the one subject no one can agree on! ;-) Besides international differences, there are also domestic differences based on cultural, economic, and even chronological circumstances in which people grew up. For example, people who grew up in the US during the oil crises in the 70's and early 80's remember gas lines and Jimmy Carter's sweater. The trauma has made us hoard fuel and avoid sweaters. No wait, that's not right... is it? Whatever, the one thing you can be sure of is that people who have completely different attitudes toward heat and cooling will inevitably wind up living together.
In more recent local history, we had the odd political shenanigans of the Calif electricity crisis of the last decade. Unfortunately that seems to have made a lot of people think that wasting energy isn't really a problem - i.e. it's all just a political game. By that logic, if your local police dept. is corrupt, it's OK to rob banks?
Oh my, the Santa Ana winds seem to have blown the lid off Pandora's box! I'd better put it back on before anything else flies out of this comment!