Friday, August 3, 2007

Can't take the girl out of the desert

I'm melting. We have a swamp cooler instead of air conditioning. For those of you unfamiliar with the desert, a swamp cooler is a large box on our roof with a big fan and a little teeny copper pipe that drips water into the filter. It usually cools the house by up to 20 degrees because our usual humidity is about 10-15%. This last week we've had lots of thunderstorms and the humidity is 73% this morning. I did not sleep at all last night except the time I was dreaming that I was at a truck stop with no clothes...another story altogether. If I wanted to live with this kind of humidity I'd move to Texas.