Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

yay! The creators of the 'best before' label is ditching them to cut food waste!
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...rom-300-fruit-and-veg-items-to-cut-food-waste

 

[pennyJo1960]

I don't often ask for much but tomorrow I will be testing for a engineering job and I appreciate any positive thoughts. Thanks yall.

Best of Luck to you !

 

[Perris]

I don't think putting air conditioning everywhere is a sustainable solution. It's a vicious circle. I understand it's necessary in places like you live in @GregnLety but in less extreme conditions we need to learn to build houses that are made for the heat and to isolate existing houses.

I agree. The advice we're getting from the met office is to open windows now (early morning) to get (relatively) cool air into the house, then shut them and draw the curtains, keep them closed and stay inside. They say it will keep the house relatively cool.

The ancient Romans who could afford villas had it all worked out, not just orienting the house to maximize solar gain in winter and catching cool breezes in summer, they even had a form of air conditioning via aqueduct-supplied running water for the very rich. The simple and widespread version was the open topped atrium with inward sloping roofs and splash pond in the centre (impluvium) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impluvium which cooled everything when the afternoon thunderstorms arrived, and supplied some of the house's water too.

 

[ManueB]

I agree. The advice we're getting from the met office is to open windows now (early morning) to get (relatively) cool air into the house, then shut them and draw the curtains, keep them closed and stay inside. They say it will keep the house relatively cool.

The ancient Romans who could afford villas had it all worked out, not just orienting the house to maximize solar gain in winter and catching cool breezes in summer, they even had a form of air conditioning via aqueduct-supplied running water for the very rich. The simple and widespread version was the open topped atrium with inward sloping roofs and splash pond in the centre (impluvium) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impluvium which cooled everything when the afternoon thunderstorms arrived, and supplied some of the house's water too.

In my region old houses are made for the heat and stay relatively cool. Ours is half buried on one side, 32 degrees outside means 22 inside. In old villages and cities there are many examples of specific architecture to deal with the heat, like in Nice the shutters with the lower parts that can open to get in cool air coming from below.

Tax for going really off subject : mustached chaperone.

 

[GregnLety]

Some of our medias almost made fun of the fact that gb has its first heat alert. I think it's pretty scary, hope you won't suffer too much!
I don't think putting air conditioning everywhere is a sustainable solution. It's a vicious circle. I understand it's necessary in places like you live in @GregnLety but in less extreme conditions we need to learn to build houses that are made for the heat and to isolate existing houses.

I hope it will work out ! Would you have to stay on the rig sometimes ? I think it was you that said you quit your precedent work for the actual to be home every night.

Like I said before I will probably get one, but only when this one dies hopefully not before three or four years. I would miss the camera though because that's the one thing I find handy to have always with me.
My aunt has a smartphone but her suscription doesn't include internet access, that's another possibility.

Where I grew up in Kentucky we didn't have air conditioning. Houses were built for air flow. My first experience with air conditioning was in the army. Now I know I am too soft to live without it. Our main unit is down now but fortunately a window unit in the dining room and kitchen and a portable in our bedroom keep it tolerable but we are limited to a small portion of our home.

 

[RoyalChick]

Where I grew up in Kentucky we didn't have air conditioning. Houses were built for air flow. My first experience with air conditioning was in the army. Now I know I am too soft to live without it. Our main unit is down now but fortunately a window unit in the dining room and kitchen and a portable in our bedroom keep it tolerable but we are limited to a small portion of our home.

My neighbor's house is built of stone and he has never had A/C of any kind and doesn't need it because of the stone structure.
The story goes that it was the main house of one of the estates that have long since been broken up. I believe I live in the horse and cow barn of that estate. Anyway, some time in the '20s or '30s the main house burned to the ground and when he rebuilt the owner didn't want anything that could burn as part of the construction.
They do have heating but the stone also stores the heat so they use it much less than I have to.

 

[GregnLety]

We lost a young hen yesterday. She had no Mark's or swelling or anything unusual. I think the heat got her. It's frustrating when you do everything possible and still lose a young and healthy bird. I guess we'll modify the shade cloth to allow more air flow but the days have been hot and calm with little wind.

 

[GregnLety]

I passed the CSE exam

Now for the interview process.

 

[Sequel]

I passed the CSE exam

Now for the interview process.

Way to go!!!! We’re pulling for you during the interview process!

 

[bruceha2000]

Needless to write I have yet to be invited.

I suspect you would prefer NOT to be involved in that group.

But there is a huge demand for sustainable meat and there are waiting list for customers buying directly from farms!

Lack of slaughterhouses is a big problem all over the USA. People have to plan a year in advance to get an appointment.

e.g. this is supposedly 'cool'

Yeah, no need to pull down his pants or unzip to use the toilet

Gotta wonder if there are suspenders under the shirt. I don't see how the pants would stay up off the ground otherwise.

I keep thinking about getting one of those basic type phones. I did need some of the smart phone features when I first got to the UK but about the only apps I use are bus and train info.

But YOU need the bus and train info!

I would miss the camera though because that's the one thing I find handy to have always with me.

I don't know about "all" but cameras are common on flip phones now.

The advice we're getting from the met office is to open windows now (early morning) to get (relatively) cool air into the house, then shut them and draw the curtains, keep them closed and stay inside. They say it will keep the house relatively cool.

Wait, it has never been so hot there that the technique is not common?? We didn't have A/C in So. California (my sister still doesn't). None here either. In the summer, unless it is going to rain, the windows are opened at night, closed during the day, curtains closed.

They do have heating but the stone also stores the heat so they use it much less than I have to.

Yep. Large stone mass buffers the heat gain/loss substantially.
The interior of the old Missions in California are much cooler than the outside air mid summer.

I passed the CSE exam

Now for the interview process.

Yay!!! We knew you could do it, so did you.