Quiet Life Homestead

Tuesday Happenings

Charlie's off today in preparation for his trip.  It will be very nice to spend some time with him before he has to go.  It seems like he just got back from the meeting in Vegas!  I looked online last night in the Sheridan and Cody communities (and their surrounding communities) and its just too expensive for us to live there.  Billings, Montana though seemed to be alright.  Charlie's got a friend who lives up there and we joked about moving the mobile home onto his land.  Pipe dreams!  We're wanting so much to have some land, but what am I doing in the meantime?  Am I reading up on all the things I should know?  Of course not.  I have 5 really good homesteading resource books (Storeys, Self-Sufficient Life, Hobby Farm, Encyclopedia of Country Living, & Modern Homestead Manual), that I haven't read maybe five pages of out of each.  I could be using this time to at least get familiar with the books and the wisdom they have packed into the pages.

We still have ant swarmers in the house.  At first I thought they were termites, but Charlie (he used to be the Tulsa Termite Service Manager for Terminix) said that they are ant swarmers.  They are getting in through all the open windows, too bad they aren't bringing cooler air with them! :) 

I know I shouldn't complain about the temperatures, they will get much worse.  Plus my ancestors didn't have air conditioning.  There are people living today who don't have air conditioning (besides us).  I wonder how they did (do) it.  I've found that if I keep the blinds down as well as the curtains (which are fairly thin), it stays about 10 degrees cooler in the house than outside.  Once the sun's going down though and it cools down outside, it doesn't cool down inside.  I didn't fall asleep until after 2:30am last night.  It was just too warm - even with the ceiling fan and two other fans blowing right on us.  I wish my grandma or grandmother were alive still, they would both have excellent information.  No, that's not exactly right, they'd both have us get the a/c hooked up and pay for it if we couldn't afford it.  If anyone's reading this who's been through the no a/c thing and has wisdom to pass on, please do!

The kids are now up and we have many errands and such to do, so that's all for now!

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{ 08:16, Tuesday, May 15, 2007 } { Posted by homesteadinthemaking }

I wish I could help you with the no a/c thing. I was hope to make it to the first of June with no a/c but we turned it on when it hit 90*. I would love to live without the electric bill from the a/c.
Blessings,
Trixi