A major freeze has come our way! Ok, not really...we are just enjoying that it is only 105 today. We have been baking in 110+ weather the last week, and the swamp cooler has a hard time keeping things comfortable at that rate. When it is 105 and below, the swamp cooler runs at about 78 degrees, which is bearable (as long as you aren't working too hard!) but when it is hotter, the swamp cooler gets it down somewhere between 85-90 degree. We have all been spending a lot of time laying around in the lightest cloths that we own, or at the pool. We have learned a trick for the night, which is when the heat is the worst since it is hard to fall asleep. Anyway, some of us have been taking cold showers at night, making sure that our hair is damp so that the fans that we have going can blow on us and help make things cool. We also get the top sheet of the bed damp which helps cool too. Mini evaporative coolers I guess...funny that it works!

(If I could type a title in...another problem we have to check out...this would be titled "Five degrees makes a big difference")