➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CindyinSD]

I have a window AC, just because we're all pansies and die if we can't cool off after working outside.

We open the windows (including upstairs in the loft) at night and create a chimney effect where the air comes in from outside (it is almost always chilly at night) on the ground floor and pushes the hot air up and out the high windows while pulling cool outside air through the house. In the morning we close everything up to keep the “coolth.” It lasts reasonably well most of the day on most days. Sometimes it does get hot, but not that often.

(Coolth is a word that logically *should* exist. It has great utility. Its lack has created a gaping hole in the English language, IMO.) I therefore invented it. You’re welcome.

BTW, we don’t include the daylight basement in this cooling engine because it gets too cold down there if we do.

Which is why I am ordering a greenhouse kit tomorrow (hopefully). We barely have a long enough season to grow lettuce. (Slight *slight* exaggeration.)

 

[BantyChooks]

We open the windows (including upstairs in the loft) at night and create a chimney effect where the air comes in from outside (it is almost always chilly at night) on the ground floor and pushes the hot air up and out the high windows while pulling cool outside air through the house. In the morning we close everything up to keep the “coolth.” It lasts reasonably well most of the day on most days. Sometimes it does get hot, but not that often.

(Coolth is a word that logically *should* exist. It has great utility. Its lack has created a gaping hole in the English language, IMO.) I therefore invented it. You’re welcome.

BTW, we don’t include the daylight basement in this cooling engine because it gets too cold down there if we do.

Which is why I am ordering a greenhouse kit tomorrow (hopefully). We barely have a long enough season to grow lettuce. (Slight *slight* exaggeration.)

I feel your pain! We do that as well, which helps a lot, but the location of the house and the windows thereof makes it so that unless we're really careful, keep the blinds down, and don't open the doors much (how??) it rapidly climbs to above 80 inside on the really awful days.

 

[BantyChooks]

We open the windows (including upstairs in the loft) at night and create a chimney effect where the air comes in from outside (it is almost always chilly at night) on the ground floor and pushes the hot air up and out the high windows while pulling cool outside air through the house. In the morning we close everything up to keep the “coolth.” It lasts reasonably well most of the day on most days. Sometimes it does get hot, but not that often.

(Coolth is a word that logically *should* exist. It has great utility. Its lack has created a gaping hole in the English language, IMO.) I therefore invented it. You’re welcome.

BTW, we don’t include the daylight basement in this cooling engine because it gets too cold down there if we do.

Which is why I am ordering a greenhouse kit tomorrow (hopefully). We barely have a long enough season to grow lettuce. (Slight *slight* exaggeration.)

I'm currently worried that I won't get a tomato harvest this year. I planted a bit late, and it's already cold enough some mornings that I feel the need to put on a jacket.

 

[Kiki]

I'm currently worried that I won't get a tomato harvest this year. I planted a bit late, and it's already cold enough some mornings that I feel the need to put on a jacket.

A jacket!?
We are still in the hundreds down here.

 

[ShrekDawg]

A jacket!?
We are still in the hundreds down here.

I’ve needed a jacket lately here haha

 

[ShrekDawg]

I scrape the windshields daily in winter.

Yeah it’s usually necessary I just always forget haha

 

[BantyChooks]

A jacket!?
We are still in the hundreds down here.

Yep, if it were a few degrees cooler there'd be a frost risk. Obviously, that by itself isn't cold at all, but when you're used to 20--23*C, 4*C with no sun and a breeze is pretty cold to be getting wettened in by with hose spray.

 

[Nabiki]

I finally got all of my birds off of the kitchen table and the various cages/bins/brooder things that they were in. the jumbos have been in the new coop for a few weeks now, but I finally got the falb fee and the newcomers situated. You can see the falb fee and the jumbos in the background. I plan to move them around regularly. As soon as I get my empty garden bed composted and hoed up I'm going to move one set of birds to that.

Still working on the run that is designed to fit over the garden bed. It's almost done, though, so the birds will have even more space.

Edit: That silver boy is chasing and trying to mount every girl in there. He's going to father lots of chicks.

 

[Nabiki]

Odd. The image didn't upload in the last post.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Odd. The image didn't upload in the last post.

I was about to tell you i wanted to seeeeee those pens are really neat i bet theyll be so happy moved around regularly