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For our children, when they were toddlers and needed to be in car seats, I kept towels and ice packs handy for when we went out in the summer. Going to the store, I freed the child from the restraints then placed the buckles together, placed an ice pack on that, then covered with a towel before heading into the store. After our shopping was done, we’d arrive at a scorching hot vehicle - but the children’s buckles weren’t painfully hot for tender skin.
Those icepacks saved us from a lot of pain.

My wife also had a neat trick. As our air is desiccated as well as hot, any moisture evaporates quickly - lowering the temperature. She’d place a thin towel over the stroller, soaked with water. The towel was thin enough for the kid to see out of, and moistened periodically from a water bottle, kept the air inside a bit cooler than the oven outside.

I discovered a trick to deal with the extreme heat inside a parked car in Arizona when it's so hot it's very hard to just get in and sit down and pray the AC starts up immediately. This works: when you start the car, open the two front seat windows all the way and turn the fan on to the highest power. When you feel the cold air now coming out of the vents in the dashboard, then shut the windows. It takes only about 3-4 minutes so you can safely take your seats and start your drive.

What worked for me was to move to the tropics where we don't have wide swings in temperature. We only have two seasons; rainy and dry. It's nice to know that tomorrow's weather will be much like today's weather forever and ever.

@Beej Cobalt - yep, I do that as well, I call it 'flushing out the hot air'....

We've been dealing with straight 90'sF all this week...gah!

@David Calderon 🥇👏

@Su Ann Lim. I thank you, the members of the academy & all Plusporians for this high honor. Thank you... 😀

@Samuel Smith @Beej Cobalt excellent ideas.

I have one similar to @Samuel's - if ever in a place with no AC/fan and it is THAT hot throughout the night, use a thin towel, soak it in cool/cold water, wring most of the water out, wrap it around your neck. The temperature from the evaporating water against our skin is wonderfully cool. I was skeptical about this advice until I tried it.

Apparently our Cdn troops when they were in Afghanistan used the same technique to cool ridiculously hot bottled water by putting them in (hopefully clean) sox presoaked in water. They tied the damp socked bottles under vehicles for a few minutes. The evaporation of the water from the sox cooled the temperature of the bottled water nicely. 😮

@David Calderon 🤣

I have a small, variable speed fan that I keep near me on a nightstand. When I want to go to sleep, I turn the A/C to a higher temperature, as I am quite susceptible too becoming to cold, while asleep.

While sleeping I like the air around me to be very lightly circulating. The fan has 60 digital speed settings. Right now I am using it on speed setting number #2. Just the lightest bit of circulation of air around me.

This way I can have fresh air, and not get too cold, while sleeping…
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I've got asthma which is in high gear this last week due to the extreme heat. Heat and stress as well as regular old allergies make fan placement an issue during the night. Constantly trying to find the sweet spot to make a column fan rotate just right to gently come my way but not too much. Also an air purifier in front of the fan. I swear I do back and forth from too hot to too cold about 3-4 times each night.

I hear you, @Beej Cobalt...

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For all of those who are commenting on the summer heat, I have one word - AUGUST.

@sundowner60@diasp.org. As far back as I can remember. My dad would always say, "August is the hottest month." 👣😎🥵😈🌡🔥☀🩲👙

Looking at the info on the page for your "Cooling" device @Su Ann Lim its basically a fan that blows air thru a filter soaked with ice water. It doesn't really lower the temperature much, and that depending on the water being colder than the room temp, and adds to the humidity rather than removing humidity (which is what traditional AC does).

Similar devices have existed before, I remember seeing a few 1930s equiv designs and some old homemade ones (basically a box your oscillating fan was stuck into with a filter sheet in the front and a water reservoir you filled, possibly including some chunks of ice from the ice box if you had an old school ice delivered ice box.

They are more about the illusion of cooling you... sort of like running thru a water sprinkler or shower and then sitting in front of a fan as the wind evaporates the water from your skin. Short term relief, but the increased humidity to the room hangs around afterwards.

Note I find humidity more a problem than dry heat. I can move around in Dry heat ten degrees higher than humid heat without problems, but since the humidity agitates my arthritis I prefer to avoid it when possible and ordinary AC is the only way to do that. I'm in pain and have trouble breathing in 80s (F) if the humidity is 70% or greater, but drop that humidity to 50% and the pain drops down to a normal level and can breathe fine until around 90 F.

Ditto to what Joseph wrote, it's the humidity that affects me most.

@Joseph Teller Exactly. And that's all explained by the physics of our bodies. Your experience is not an illusion, it's how things work.

Yes @Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) but as far as I am concerned, its not really cooling if it doesn't drop the room temperature itself down on a thermometer.

@Joseph Teller Reducing humidity is more effective than reducing temp. (Assuming the humidity was high to begin with.) Yes, where we had our horse ranch in the high desert of Southwest Nevada, reducing temperature was what mattered. The humidity was in single digits anyway. But here in West Virginia, I installed A/C mainly to reduce humidity. And, the figures you cited are exactly the same for me. Reduce the humidity from 70 percent to 50 percent and it makes a huge difference because now my body's natural cooling system can function. At 70 percent you just suffocate in the heat.

There's a gadget you place over the top edge of your car windows when you park, then you roll it up almost all the way. The thing is a solar-powered exhaust fan. If two windows have that and two are just open a few centimeters, the very-hot air never gets a chance to build up in the car.

If you have a sunroof then leaving it open a few cm is also helpful.

Here in London we've heard of extreme temperatures but rarely experience them. It very rarely goes below a couple of negative ºC (about 28ºF) in winter and even more rarely above 40ºC (104ºF) in summer. But we do have one multi-purpose gadget that can work well at the height of summer, despite what you might have heard about London being one of the driest places on the planet. 😉

Uh .. well .... some years ago, i had some problems with the abundance of heat in my flat ... so i got creative.

My weird contraption actually made it in to a "Make" article on heise (some german it and tech news outlet more or less).

Well, tbh, i wrote the article for a competition to re/upcycle old computer hardware....

Sadly it is only in german, but luckily we have modern tools like google translate, so .. have fun:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fmake%2Fprojekte%2FKlimatoese-1745762.html

Sadly, goggle says it can not translate the images .... so... i put them in here too:

@(((David "Kahomono" Frier))) That would surely help.

I must say that this year is the first here in West Virginia where getting into the car reminds me of Southern Nevada and I have to remember my techniques for dealing with a steering wheel that's at a temperature that would injure you. (Hmm. I'll have to see about measuring the temperature, just for fun.)

I like the technological solution, although it seems time consuming, tricky, and onerous with electric windows when running errands and making numerous stops.

Back in the day, in Nevada, I used physics. I kept two large spray bottles full of water in the car. "Vapor phase" / evaporative cooling is the most effective of all. Stunning actually. And even more effective when the humidity is just 6 percent. Just spray the things you need to touch. When driving, I'd spray myself every minute or so, instead of using A/C. Feels great.

Funny we're talking about cooling. The week here will be cool, and won't go beyond 20C, not enough to wear t-shirts when outside.

One of the branch offices I work in has modern cooling ceilings - i.e. no moving air, no noise, no dripping, no manual controls (instead the same setting for all the building), and thus no disagreement among coworkers sharing the same room. A steady 19C or so all day. I very much like it that way, it makes you forget there's blast furnace type heat outside (like last summer, and the summer before) until in the evening you step out of the building to get your bike. The heat then hits you, "Ha-ha! You didn't really think I'd not be here waiting for you, did you!!" wham!

The other office is more exposed to the elements, an old building with direct sun from say 10:30 to late afternoon, so some of the rooms get way too warm. We bought fans to place on the floor, but they are annoying. Type is like this, loud because of moving air, loud because of resonance in the metal construction, and loud regardless of setting low-mid-high. They cool only if you sweat. Oh well, better than nothing. You've all seen these:

So, some colleagues chose to occupy an unused desk in the basement floor instead, where hardy any ray of sun ever gets to and no fan is ever needed.

Working from home, it is different. My room with the desk is shaded by a tall tree so doesn't get much direct sunlight. Also nice and never too warm. Got me a cute, almost useless USB-powered fan somewhere last year to move the air a bit, but am not using it much.

The local Muji store has a heavy duty, almost inaudible fan on sale. I'm sure people will like that one a lot.

On the luxury side, Dyson has that over 500€ luxury air filter and heating/cooling fanless fan on offer, implying it can stay on all the time doings its filter magic. I do wonder how that is supposed to work, too lazy don't care. Style-wise, those are cutting edge though.

speaking of cool, a thunderstorm brought us a few minutes of smallish hail in the Dominican Republic a few days ago. There was a hail storm several years ago in April, I recall; but it's pretty rare.

My method is to stay inside unless you have to go out, then go out early enough you can be home before it gets too bad out...

For the hot car problem, I finally got a cloth steering wheel cover - makes a huge difference. I also fan the car door open ad shut a few times before entering the car. They claim that drops the inside temp faster. See the explanation HERE

I am having a hard time at home with the continual high humidity we have had here for the past 3 summers and need to run the AC a lot. Since it's an older window unit that comes with the apartment, it is far from energy efficient and I am afraid how high my power bill will be this round. All my life (and I have lived in the same state the whole time) I used to be able to open windows at bedtime and run a fan to get cooler air in, then close them again when I left for work in the morning. For some reason, we have become very humid these past few years - 90% and above every night in spring and summer, which means opening windows is worse than not opening them. #climatechange

Ouch! I remember burning my hands on the steering wheel ....I kept gloves and oven mitts.....I almost forgot what a hot car feels like!! I am glad I really do not need to deal with heat any more...Here it is more never touch anything metal with damp hands in the wintertime or freeze your fingers to the door knob! One thing is one does not need to spend a long time warming up the engine in moderate below freezing temperatures just drive slow for a few miles I learned that on Car Talk(NPR), and an engine block heater is useful when it is really below freezing!...In the house layers of clothes and never bundle up at the first sign of chilly weather try to tough it out and you will do better later on when it is really cold...

Air conditioning is one of life's greatest miracles. I have read that Florida was very sparsely inhabited before AC was invented....

...ugh, weather for my part of Pa is high humidity, low 90sF all week.

I'll only raise the blinds in the living room, so the kitties can lounge in the sun for a bit...

So not a morning, or intense heat & humidity person....

for cold outdoors: I bought myself a super warm coat (after a winter which required wearing four or five layers of clothing to go out)
for cold indoors: (when the heat hasn't kicked in yet): a pot of water on the stove
for heat: I spent part of a summer without a/c, so blowing fans over a bucket of ice, splashing pulse points with cold water, and lose, lightweight cotton clothing

And yeah, as we like to say around here, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. I was broiling the other day, even though the temperature wasn't that high, because the humidity was 79% or something.

I used to say it was easier to swim through the air than walk when the humidity was almost at par with the air temperature! UHG when was I drying off the shower water and not the new sweat? I wore socks so my feet wouldn't slip in the shoes with the sweat running down my legs...why even bother fixing my hair with the curling iron when the sweat would straighten the hair and plaster it down on my head? I told Q one more summer like this and I kill myself....I now live in Maine.

Good morning! Love your ideas! Too bad that it sounds like my CoolZ will not be as effective as hoped. But another device which moves air around will be helpful. Fortunately, the problem here is it's not warming up like any normal year. Although feeling some heat will be nice for a while, the abnormally cool wet conditions have so far meant not having the kind of wildfire conditions that were very worrisome in recent summers. It is a relief (so far) not having to deal with such conditions this year.

@hackbyte how innovative! (I read the details in translation)
It's good to be reminded how resourceful and resilient humans are.

Hmm...checking the weather in Straya today. Right now, the winter temp in Tasmania is 4C, Melbourne 8C and Sidney 12C. In comparison, the mid-summer temp here is a balmy 13C. 🤣

Currently 81F/27C here, but with 73% humidity.

Temperatures have not gotten unreasonably warm here. We get by with ceiling fans and a small number of strategically placed Honeywell turbine fans. The large ones, at least, are very quiet for the volume of air they move. We just bought a bed topper that is supposed to start actively cooling about eight to ten seconds after you lie down on it. So far I'm not sure I'm impressed. The money might have been better spend towards a new mattress — the mattress's warranty outlasted the company that made it, and I think the mattress is showing why.

Cold in winter is more of a concern, and once again it seems our efforts to get the roof insulated have fallen apart. The insulation company has been great working with us, and Eversource just made their energy rebate program a lot better ... but the contractor who was going to be doing the work this spring lost their framing team due to coronavirus and can no longer do the work, and we can't find another. We've been trying for ten years to get this roof replaced. I'm starting to think it would be easier to have the house torn down and rebuilt.

For intensely subzero weather, something that escaped me entirely, when one goes grocery shopping, it's typically the last errand to do before one headed home because of the need to get the food home right away. One had solidly frozen groceries if they were left in the car for any amount of time!

@Jodi Kaplan having that super warm coat is vital. I made do too for many years with layers, but still thought I was going to expire within a short spell when experiencing lower than -20C conditions in Quebec/Ontario/Alberta/northern BC. But with that super warm coat and suitable accessories what a difference! While always keeping aware of the temp, I felt free to go about as I wished outdoors. Super warm clothing is also essential even in this more temperate latitude when we lose our power for any length of time e.g. during winter storms.

Oh a detail for those of you who may not have travelled to colder climes - places with extremely cold weather in the winter can inversely have tropical like weather during the summer. It's normal. Ottawa is memorable to me for that @mudhooks@pluspora.com! 😄

No more layers, just head right outside! Yay! Also I no longer got bronchitis regularly.

I believe that A/C is the reason why some many places that have no business being over populated are infested with people....over crowded and hard to live in now....yes it is nice but ruined every place that was uncomfortable with adding comfort to humans ....

Oh yeah. When the temperature gets that low, out comes my arctic parka.

@Nora Qudus, I think the real fundamental problem there is Too Damn Many people.

over population is the number one cause of everything. We will pollute ourselves into extinction like a few other species have over the past 5 billion years @Phil Stracchino

my way to deal with extreme temperatures is to live in Seattle

@Stefani Banerian 😂😂😂

All you have to worry about then is rusting. ;)

I can live with rust.
diamonds, and rust.

Good evening, this week it's pretty cold outside, felt more like autumn this morning.
Although it was really hot a few weeks ago, temperature in my apartment was still nice. Relatively good insulation.
My parents house has open cellar stairs , and so there is always a constant cold air flow more or less. Going to the Cellar is like going into the fridge when it's hot outside.
The heat is not much the problem, but the humidity here kills it. Living in rainforest area would probably kill me

The temperature here stays within tolerable bounds, so my devices for dealing with the extremes are gloves and a hat for the cold, and a bottle of water for the heat.

I also have oven gloves for getting things from the oven.

@Stefani Banerian nice Joan Baez ref.

I carry an umbrella for when the sun is really beating down. I went out for a bit yesterday and didn't use it. You've heard of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns? Yesterday, I got a 107 degree burn. Sunday will get to 113 when I will use the best device I have. Stay home under the AC.

But I have lived in these conditions most of my life. I am not even aware of some of my preventative measures. But it is true that it is a dry heat and that does make a difference. Outside was always miserable when visiting Florida even though 10 to 20 degrees "cooler."

Back when I sold RV parts, one of the popular accessories was what was called a Swamp Cooler. It replaced a roof vent, had a reservoir for water, and a mesh that was fed by the reservoir. A fan pushed air over the mesh. It was cheaper than AC, and could operate on 12V.
I remember back in the motorcycle riding days, getting caught in the rain without rain gear. Even in the summer, it was cold.
I'm glad I don't live where the door handle can burn my hand, but I have a dark coloured car, and sometimes the steering wheel gets very hot.

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To be honest I suffer with any temp over 20°C hahahaha

I have gotten used to metric measurements. It doesn't take a lot of thought to conversion anymore. But Celsius has been difficult. So I wanted to convert @Astheroth 🇨🇱🐍's 20C. I did a little search and found a simple way to convert. Double the C and add 30 giving 70. It doesn't have to be exact, just give me an idea.

Looked at the CoolZ website @Su Ann Lim mentioned, and compared it to @hackbyte's link - both appear to work following the same principle - humidifying the air. Will be interesting to see how well that works for you @Su!

@Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩) Yeah the basic principles seem to be the same.... although, the variants from @Su Ann Lim and @Don Little are a bit more professional and way less manual. But on my solution, i can place nice ice blocks right into the air stream....

But yeah, all of those variants primarily use evaporation-cooling, which transfers water in to the air... Except for some slight boost when using actual ice.

Evaporation cooling is “cool” and really effective… It only depends on how much humidity the air can take…

So, where i lived back then, in hamburg, germany, where we had some moderate humidity (as a city with a bigger inland port), my mileage was slightly limited but still ok. ;)

"Swamp coolers" can work well in low to moderate humidity.

In high humidity? Not so much. The only thing they can accomplish under high-humidity conditions is to push the humidity even higher and make matters worse.

True. Evaporation cooling is more effective when the air is dry.

@UnclePirate (Stan McCann) Here in Canada, we've been mostly metric now for about 55 years. I now think in Celsius and Kilometres. There are things I haven't quite given up yet though. I'm still about five foot nine, and I weigh myself in pounds. The older you get, the harder the change.

Yes. Condensation cooling is the other thing - extracting the temperature carrier "moisture" from the air, but that is tough to do on USB power or using makeshift gear. :)

I read something recently that explained why metrication failed in the US. But I can't remember what the reason was, because it was such a stupid reason that it triggered the J. B. Bell effect.

"I'd try to share the original rationalization, but it's so twisted my mind won't hold it. Compiler optimization made all the bullshit go POOF."

Most of my working life I was a partsman. I worked with mechanics (sorry. I mean technicians) who complained loudly about those foreign cars with their metric fasteners. Then all the so-called domestics converted to metric.
I say so-called domestics for this reason: One quiet Saturday, I took a walk through the shop, checking the VINs of the cars waiting to be serviced. There was a Silverado, a Tahoe, a Suburban, a Honda, Toyota, and Chevy Sprint.
The Honda, Toyota, and Sprint were all built in Canada, and all the "domestics" were built in Mexico!
I see one of the Buick SUVs is now built in China.

I miss sweating and dancing at concerts!
https://youtu.be/x4hxLeHbqZo

@Don Little, I totally hear you. One of the big arguments the Harley Faithful will offer as to why every motorcyclist should ride a Harley is "You should buy American and support America!"

The average new Harley-Davidson has more of its parts made in China or Japan than does the average new Honda. Hondas are more American-made than Harley-Davidsons. And it's been that way for at least the last twenty years.

@Christoph S — I'm doing my sweating and dancing in Beat Saber. :) Shooting for an hour a day in addition to picking up my kettlebell work again.

@Christoph S a song together app?! @Joyce Donahue I bet more of these will emerge. People love singing together! My niece’s social dance group still have virtual dances where one can choose to be seen or not.

@Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) My first job in the car industry was with a Datsun dealer in, I think, 1970. The companies making domestic cars were spreading FUD and waving flags like crazy. The end result, of course, was that they had to start building better cars. So I guess in that way, competition improved the breed.

Sorry, I meant @Phil Stracchino

Wish there was an edit button.

Yup. As long as Asian imports were small, frumpy, and by American standards spartan, Detroit laughed and kept doing what it had always done.

Then the imports became good. And sometime after, a shockingly long time after, the public realized that they could buy imported cars that were better made, cheaper, more comfortable and more fuel-efficient than Detroit iron and would last longer, the Motor City finally realized that it had to evolve or die.

Finally, now, they are catching up again. But they'll probably never win me back as a customer. I like my Volvo.

Years ago, before we installed an AC unit, the house had a swamp cooler. It worked OK most of the year, but the interesting thing about it was the effect our hard water had. After summer, we'd drain the reservoir and remove the stalactites that had grown under the pan. They'd grow a few inches over the summer, far faster than in a damp cave. :-)

I found the most excellent way of dealing with the heat of the Atlanta sun: I simply turned around and walked back into the air-conditioned airport terminal building, where I stayed until my connecting flight was ready to board. I was not ready for that giant firefacesmack.

We talked fireflies and glowbugs the other day. So, people now went where I had seen them the other day and captured them with very interesting clarity on Pixel 4 cameraphones:

Amazing. Where my phone caught just the sky behind the trees, it saw next to nothing close by, no bushes, leaves, nothing. If it had, the picture would be terribly full of colour noise. Had I caught one it would have shown a few weakly lit pixels. Here, very clear result:

Appears that night vision algorithm works rather well! Colour me impressed.

Late, but here's my post about meeting the dragon boats on a late evening walk in Taipei.

Nice @Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩)!

I'm happy to live somewhere it doesn't get super hot 28C is a warm day, the odd time we get over 35 C. Today we're having cool windy wet weather, yesterday was a perfect 22 C. I find it easier to dress for cold weather than to cool down. It's different in the tropics where there is the sea and the sea breeze for cooling off.

I was tested by an immunologist just a couple months ago. I'm not so much allergic to pollen, but I am very allergic to smoke. This hospitalised me back during the Australian fires earlier this year. I now live in a place where people live to get back to nature while still having access to the city. Many love heating their houses with wood stoves. For a "natural" place we have problems with smog and I keep getting knocked out by it.

For you environmental sorts let me say, modern heaters are more energy efficient and produce much fewer carbon emissions than your woodheater! To heat an entire house that woodheater needs a fan, and we found the fan used up more electricity in itself than our reverse air-conditioner. Also, consider how many trees are cut down. We've had people say: ah, but Victorian energy is fuelled by coal plants. One small section of our roof has solar panels. We were once selling power to the grid during a large part of the year, because we once made more than we used. We now use about the same as we make, because we use the spare to charge our electric car. We may put up a couple more in the near future.

My Kawasaki Vulcan had more US made parts than many of my friends' Harleys. Made in Marysville, Mo.

I don't mind being smacked in the face with heat. I don't mind heat.

I hate being smacked in the face with what feels and smells like a hot, wet towel that's been used at the gym every day for a month and never washed.

@Muse, I'd love to go solar, but it's just not really feasible here. We're too far north, behind too many trees, and the roof is oriented wrong. Sorry. Not happening.

@Phil Stracchino, I keep thinking it would be fun to experiment with home wind generators Also, I am hearing more talk about geothermal energy for individual houses. These are all getting more affordable. The market is opening up!

@Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩) Wow! A photo of a firefly! I've never seen one in person.

@Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩) Very nice, indeed.

@Muse Come on over. They're flitting around outside right now.

@Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) I'll just wind up the transporter. Scotty won't mind!

@Muse Well, now the sun is coming up, so you'll have to wait until tonight. But that's okay because they're most abundant right at astronomical twilight.

home wind: I've has some experience - used to have one on my sailboat (one at a time, that is - I had several over the years). Unless the wind ALWAYS blows, you don't want one.

That's the trouble with wind power: You need reliable, strong, mostly constant wind, but not too strong. And in the US for one, there are actually relatively few places where you find that on a usable scale. There's a wind farm a bit north of us up around the Cumberland Gap.

Arf. I check in after the battle and, sorry, I'll read the coms "diagonally", too tired to go peel it all.

I live in the south of France (but a bit high up in altitude), and if we don't have extreme temperatures yet, they can be tough. Like 40°C in the shade...
And I don't have an air conditioner. Ouch. How do I do...
First of all, I reserve my activity in the morning and in the evening, when it is cooler ; the middle of the day is spent in the shade, for quieter tasks.
I close the shutters to lower the temperature, leaving enough room for draughts.
I hang special curtains on the door : it's a fine mesh of raw cotton fiber, you can soak them in water before hanging them, and the air passing through is fresh ! After a few hours, when they are dry, we wet them again.It's grandma's air conditioning... ^^ (but it is also the same system that Samuel Smith's wife uses for the stroller).
I don't drink iced drinks, which make me even more thirsty, I drink lukewarm herbal teas, verbena and mint. On the other hand, two or three times during the day, I regularly wet my body with a wet washcloth, always to lower the temperature.
If it's really hot and there's not even a breeze, I have four small fans that I have here and there on the ground (they are 12 volts, I'm equipped with solar power).
And then I try to bear it philosophically, imagining that next winter I'll have to bear the cold...

Ps. I love fireflies !... It's pure magic... <3

Have a good morning-evening all of you, and take care ! 👋

@Nigel Taujess South of France! - a region I truly enjoyed exploring a while back. Yes, it gets extremely hot there! Love the idea of special curtains for the doors!

Yes, it works very well (and it also keeps the flies out).
It looks like this : portière rideau Marseillais. Mine are white...

@Don Little We often get confused. Lol.

@Don Little I have an edit button here on Friendica, but it's more of a tease than useful. Only my Friendica friends can see any edits I make. The changes don't propagate to the other platforms. So, I don't use it.

@Nigel Taujess thank you for the link!

Re-added everyone! ApexKreatorz is now here, if you could update the link, please. apexkreatorz@share.naturalnews.com
Thank you very much. Glad to be in touch again, with this redeveloped project... Cheers! (: