What do you want for nothing?

[catjac1975]

A quarter mile isn't very far, @catjac1975 .

The thermometer will be below 60° for a few mornings as we now return to more normal temperatures. Hottest weather should be right at the end of the month but we will see. The daily 30°+ temperature swings now is because it's so early in the summer. On our 4th of July drive, we passed a mountain about 3,000 feet higher than where I live. Snow was still on its north slope.

Those big swings are real noticeable in September as the nights grow longer. That's when the anxiety levels are tested as a pleasant 70° is followed by the threat of frost ... but, we aren't there, yet!

Steve

we are at 14 feet from sea level.
And protected from the bay, We should have about 50 years before the ocean is in our front yard.Although ann ice burg the size of Rhode Island is about to break free.

 

[digitS']

Buzzards Bay is right next to Rhode Island, @catjac1975 .

I'd suspect that would mean that you have some idea about the size of RI.

It would probably be several times larger than the block the guy would bring for our ice box when I was a little kid. And, 90% of it below the surface of the water carrying it.

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

While I miss quoted-not Rhode Island- Maryland. And it happened. A big difference in size but still a bit scary.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ic...ever-recorded-snaps-off-antarctica-2017-07-12

 

[digitS']

The outdoor temperature is still in the low nineties at 6:30pm.

I have the box fan in a piece of 1/4" plywood that was cut to fill the open part of the South Window. The cheap thing is so light, it's easy to move it in and out of that window for a couple of early morning hours. It is turned to work as an exhaust fan and, along a convoluted path of open doors through each room of the house, the window above the kitchen sink is opened to let in the morning air. It was 52° outdoors this morning.

Okay, it was a bit chilly after awhile but I left my bathrobe on and DW was finishing a pot of chicken and rice soup as well as heating a kettle of water on the kitchen stove. Closed everything up before 9am as it approached 70°, outdoors. Result, 5° or 6° warmer air in the house by late afternoon with 90° plus, outdoors! It is 75° in here right now.

I guess it's not nothing ... I did burn some electricity running that $20 fan. And, resources were used to provide insulation and the building materials in this 116 year old home.

Steve