Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Sally PB]

All the windows in my house are slider or awnings, not conducive to window AC units.

If/when we get new windows, they will be double hung, like what we have now. That's the only kind I ever want to have. So easy to put a big box fan in, or a window unit A/C. Well, apart from the actual putting it in part. That's a pain in the butt.

 

[aart]

If/when we get new windows, they will be double hung, like what we have now. That's the only kind I ever want to have. So easy to put a big box fan in, or a window unit A/C. Well, apart from the actual putting it in part. That's a pain in the butt.

Except for during the horrid summer heat waves,
when they won't accept a AC unit,
these sliders are magnificent.
High quality, tho 50 years old, double glazed...a window wall 5' high and 15' long on the north side of main living area.

 

[Sally PB]

High quality, tho 50 years old, double glazed...a window wall 5' high and 15' long on the north side of main living area.

Back when they made stuff to last! I bet you have a fantastic view.

The house I grew up in as a teen ager had sliders... yeah, they were nice. But we didn't need A/C; Torch Lake kept us cool.

Yeah, I know how lucky I was to live there.

 

[aart]

Yeah, I know how lucky I was to live there.

Was probably amazing.....when the tourists went home .
Middle of winter must have been a challenge?

 

[riss]

Hopefully you can work together so you can learn by doing with his guidance.

That's what I'm hoping for. I feel it would be a fun father daughter project as long as he does it with me and not secretly put some boards up while I'm at work

 

[1muttsfan]

No AC here either- although in a normal summer up here there's only about a dozen days when you would really consider it needed. Those are pretty well covered with ceiling fans. Open all the windows at night and let the house air out, and close them all during the day to hold the cooler air in.
This house was built 10 years ago and is extremely well insulated with really good windows, so it holds the heat and the cool in well, but the humidity can be a bear. I couldn't vacuum for a few days because the floor was so sticky.
On the upside, my furnace came on the other morning when it was 58° in the house, so the vacuuming got done.

 

[Folly's place]

We had two wall AC units installed years ago, and they work fine to cool the house when it's just miserable outside. Our windows are all casement, so window units not possible, and we have hot water heat, so no ductwork in the house for AC either.
The whole house fan helps a lot when it cools down at night, and we do have a couple of large trees for shade. Unfortunately our best tree had to be cut down this summer as it was failing.
90F is just too much!
A few pictures from the Ox Drover's meeting:

We don't have a team any more, but these were a few that were there. The little guys just started that week!
Mary

 

[Dreamzchaser]

We had two wall AC units installed years ago, and they work fine to cool the house when it's just miserable outside. Our windows are all casement, so window units not possible, and we have hot water heat, so no ductwork in the house for AC either.
The whole house fan helps a lot when it cools down at night, and we do have a couple of large trees for shade. Unfortunately our best tree had to be cut down this summer as it was failing.
90F is just too much!
A few pictures from the Ox Drover's meeting:
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We don't have a team any more, but these were a few that were there. The little guys just started that week!
Mary

Those are Oxes? They are huge inpictures compared tothe people nextto them. I will be terrified nest to any of them. Sorry,just a city girl here.

 

[Folly's place]

Thought you would like the pictures! Oxen are virtually all steers, and castrating youngsters delays the closure of their growth plates, so they get larger than either cows or bulls with the same genetics! That blue ox was very big, especially, and the Brown Swiss team were babies, only about seven months old.
Mary

 

[Sally PB]

Was probably amazing.....when the tourists went home .
Middle of winter must have been a challenge?

We were in Eastport, and back then, we didn't even lock up the house! It was nice and quiet; it's very different now. Houses are stacked 2-3 deep on the lots by the lake. A lot of them were for sale, last I saw, about 3 years ago. I imagine as the old folks die/leave, the kids can't handle the property taxes, which must be !

Winter was... very quiet. A fair number of snow days, every year. The winter of '78 was memorable, to say the least. Front wheel drive was not ubiquitous, as it is now. Four wheel drive was not that common, either, unless you had a truck or a Jeep. Or, in our case, an IH Scout.

Our driveway was a steep hill, and I babysat a lot. I always told people that I would be waiting at the top of the hill for them to pick me up, and had them drop me off up there too.