Happy summer everyone!
I’m writing this morning sitting on our screen porch. I love being outside but most summers in the south find us retreating to the air conditioning which I’ve always said gives me cabin-fever like our friends in Minnesota experience in January and February.
This year I decided not to surrender to the heat, and Dennis agreed, but to find ways to conquer it. We added curtains to our porch a week ago to pull closed when the sun is too strong. We’ve just installed two outdoor fans on our deck which we are already loving because moving air is cooler air! And we are going to install an awning to create shade on our west-facing deck and hope to get a larger ceiling fan for the screen porch. It’s after the 4th of July sale time so I’m looking for bargains!
Some of you probably remember we declared July a sabbatical from work and it’s been a great gift. Here’s a brief report.
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