Hound Dog
Apr 25, 2009, 11:05 AM
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Re: [cristalhombre] Current prices: fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera.
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Regarding my timeline for summer months. From mid June thru October Portland is a grand climate! Longer days, MUCH less rain, and being Portland there are SO MANY things to do. Our A/C might come on for 15 of those 100 days. For me it works perfectly! What does not serve my soul is the opposite season......... GAWD AWFUL for me......but I just keep doin it (for now)
In about 1998, when we were living in the forest lands of the Mayacamas Mountains at about 2,000 feet between Sonoma and Napa Counties in the wine county north of San Francisco, we had a particularly harsh summer and had had to run the A/C quite a bit so one day I was talking to my sister who lives on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay near a town called Fairhope which is popular among retirees from all over and I was complaining that the summer in Northern California had been so hot that year that during July and August we had had to run our central A/C for up to 20 days nonstop during the day although nights there were always somewhat cool so we could turn the A/C off about 8:00PM or so.
My sister, who has lived in South Alabama all of her life responded, "Bob, Darlihn, we turn on the A/C in April and turn it off in October and between those two ponts in time we do not even need an on/off switch."
Well, in eight years in Mexico at Lake Chapala and in the Chiapas Highlands, we have never needed an on/off switch to the non-existent A/C even once. We have, however,used a bit of propane gas for heating.
Earthbound again.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Apr 25, 2009, 11:35 AM)
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