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two boxes of oyster mushrooms (larger clamshell size, maybe four ounces each? not sure)
two pints of cherry tomatoes
two heads of green leaf lettuce
a big bunch of spinach
three heads of garlic
seven medium yellow onions
six biggish potatoes (they look like Yukon golds)
three huge globe artichokes (much yayness!)

Now, if only I could face actual cooking, but in this heat, I wilt. I know, it's only low 80s, but magids aren't made for hot weather. At all. And yet, I've never lived with an AC, either. And I've been miserable each summer (well, except when in the lovely air-conditioned-ness of my office. Thank goodness for work :-). I'm thinking that should change, though. Even a small room AC would make a difference, knowing I'd have somewhere cool enough to sleep. (And for the people who say it's not the heat, it's the humidity, well, yes, some, but it doesn't make much difference, since here the two come hand in hand.)
(As I type, I can feel sweat trickling down me. I don't know why I sweat so much more/easily than everyone else seems to, but I do.)

Oh, and I should consider investing in a cooler and ice packs too, to leave out for the veggies, as suggested.

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Be careful of window A/Cs. They all say they are quiet, but they really aren't. Last summer mine was so loud that I would cool off the room for an hour before bed and then sleep with the room sealed up.

As for the humidity...it has dropped here. In the winter it would be in the 30%s during the day and higher at night. Now the daytime humidity is about 10%. I know, I know, it's a desert, what did I expect!?

The noise was part of what I was concerned about (in addition to my likely irrational fear that it would fall out and kill someone (not likely in the alley it'll be above), and the idea that I wouldn't be able to hear the morning bird concert). And if it stays cool enough to not run all night, then that's great. Rooms sealed up, though, isn't likely to happen at my place; it's too old to be hermetically sealable (or even not-very-hermetically).

I envy you the humidity. I'd always heard people say "it's not the heat, it's the humidity," but it wasn't until I left the country that really understood how it could be hot without sticky.

I was also worried about the unit falling on someone's head and the only time I used one was when I was on the first floor. (I didn't want to keep the windows open at night when someone could crawl in.)

The lack of humidity was nice until we got down to 10%. My hands and feet are cracked worse than most winters in Boston. Plus, with the added cosmic rays, I've nearly had heat stroke once while running. The liquid gets sucked right out of your body, which when running makes my hair stand on end.

I remember my mom being very relieved when she heard that my new (current) place would be on the second floor; I can't imagine not leaving the windows open at night. Theoretically, someone could make it onto my porch and climb in from there, but I assume if someone were going to make it to the porch, it's easy enough to break in even if the windows aren't open...

Ouch for cracked hands and feet, also (almost) heat stroke. I suspect I'd deal better with the low humidity (Israel was just easier, though I admit I wasn't there in full summer) than what Boston gets, though. (Israel was also where I started being good about staying better hydrated.)

And I'm picturing you with your hair on end; rather punk :-)

In general, the lack of humidity is nice. It makes work more comfortable, as long as people use the central swampcooler in a sane manner. (Someone left the swampcooler on all night once this week and it was 55 degrees when I came into my trailer.) I don't know if I really perceive it as much cooler, especially since the increased cosmic rays makes everything feel hotter. The nice thing is that shade and night really helps here. Feeling hot? Step under a tree where it is 10-20 degrees cooler. Hate sleeping in a warm house? Open all of the windows and wait for sunset to bring a 30-40 degree temperature drop. And if all else fails, you can turn on the humidifier and let the air sweat for awhile.

The kittens love to sit in the open front window, because they like the cool breeze while the courtyard is being sprinklered. And, well, I think they like the mist. They've been known to sit on top of the humidifier with their face pointed into the fan.

My hair is in fact too long to really spike, but I do get the feeling that I am in the midst of a scary film while running.

Y'know, it's been ages since I've thought about how some people use a humidifier (rather than de-).

And I already plan my routes for walking in the summer based on maximal shade, just to be out of the direct rays; it would be nice if the temperature differential were as great, here. And I'd love it if things cooled off that much at night! I much prefer sleeping in coolness.

And feeling like you're in a scary movie is fine, until the background music starts...

We got our cooler really cheap at Target last summer. It's worked out wonderfully. You should be able to get a small one for not much money at all.

I want the AC. I want it now, and I want it to be nice and loud so it can drown out the constant screaming next door so that I can actually SLEEP when I try and take a nap.

Now would be good, though the storm has helped greatly (plus the son et lumiere show has been excellent).

And yeah, I figure the smallest room in my place is pretty darned small, so pretty much any AC should be able to handle it :-).

last night i was offered an AC and turned it down; now having fitfully slept through most of today i have to wonder if that was a mistake.

as for sweating - i do it too. in buckets. ladies just aren't supposed to talk about it :)

Tonight I was offered an AC (though it might be a loan for the season), and I didn't turn it down, especially since it came with help installing it, which I'm quite nervous about, actually. I hope the storm has helped cool things down in your place considerably.

Sweating: horses sweat, men perspire, women glow. Or something like that. And I know other women do, but when I look around, everyone else's clothing seems crisp and cool while I'm melting into a puddle. That's it: my melting point is lower.

I must be a horse, for I most certainly sweat! :)

If it's the humidity, even more reason to get an AC, since ACs condition the air by extracting the humidity from it (and often dripping it all over your hardwood floors instead). I'm glad you found a solution for the summer.

I'm hoping it drips the excess humidity outside! :-)

And thanks.

It certainly wasn't fun on third-floor apartments in the hot and humid summers. I'd shvitz and shvitz and I wouldn't be able to sleep. Finally, I decided, "I'm an adult. I can buy an air conditioner." (This was when I had money for one.) There were then some cool summers in a well-shaded first-floor apartment, but then it totally became necessary. It's certainly worth it! If you are careful, it won't kill your electric bill. Get one for the bedroom, for sleeping (and a cool place to dry off after bathing). If you can get another, use it in your kitchen. There are free ones available on Craigslist. Try getting one of those if you are worried about the expense, and then, if it isn't to your liking, you can always give it away on Craigslist and buy one. Mine isn't noisy. It's quieter, or at least less annoying to me, than the drone of the computer or the motor/rattling/wind moving of a box fan. Though, there's another model I wish I had gotten; it was smaller and less bulky but similar in power, with a digital thermostat and a remote control.

I'm on the top floor, though it's only the second, and somehow the place holds onto heat much more efficiently than I like.

I never thought of buying an air conditioner, for years; we never had one growing up, that wasn't what We Did. Though I'm not sure why.

Luckily, a friend offered an extra one tonight, with help installing it, so I can at least try and see how I do with one. (I don't know if it has a digital thermostat or remote control, but I decided to not look a gift AC in the features.)

It wasn't what We Did either, hence the "I'm an adult. I can buy an air conditioner." epiphany. (How does one punctuate that sentence with that quotation?)

I'm glad you were able to get one. I like your word play, to "not look a gift AC in the features." How has it worked out, so far?

I use a vaporizer (which is different from a humidifier) in the winter. Using humidifiers and vaporizers was something We Did, and I began doing again a number of years ago after many years of not.

It was funny to me when we'd run the huge humidifier upstairs near the bedrooms and at the same time the de-humidifier down in the basement. Also, I never liked the term "vaporizer" because a vaporizer was a scary instrument of evil on Mighty Mouse when I was little. It wasn't until a few years ago when I realized the difference between a humidifier (measures and keeps a certain level of humidity in the air) and a vaporizer (simply vaporizes whatever water it is given), that I began to use the still-scary word "vaporizer" again.

Some folks I know run warm and some run cold. I run exponentially warmer the warmer it gets, and exponentially colder the colder it gets.

So far, it hasn't worked out at all: it's hopefully arriving tonight :-).

We had dehumidifiers when I was growing up; I didn't like having to remember to empty them. Though now that would likely seem less onerous, plus I have plants to water... Maybe I should look into getting one, also.

Vaporizer definitely sounds like a WMD to me. And I hadn't known that there were vaporizers, either.

I consistently run warm; I overheat easily, even when it's cool out. When I was little, I thought everyone did, and just coped better than I did.

You definitely have my sympathy. (I run a little hot to begin with, and confronting Atlanta humidity while 31 weeks pregnant does not help.) Me, I'd go for the A/C, but I'm a weenie -- I grew up with A/C and am used to it. When I was still in Boston, I managed by putting box fans in the windows. But I'm guessing that the 2nd-floor apartments I was in didn't get quite as hot because they weren't on the top floor of the buildings.

Part of the problem is being the top floor, even with high ceilings. The roof is covered with black rubber, which doesn't help. And the layout of the apartment sucks for getting heat out, with no cross-breeze possiblity due to stupid layout (though I have windows in three directions, any given room has them on only one side, and the corridor isn't straight between them, either).

And *nod* about running hot. I'm designed for much cooler climes, really.

*Nod* on the cross-breeze problem and the black rubber roof. Those are definitely obstacles.

Personally, I'd be thrilled if temperatures remained between 50 and 75 year-round. But in the absence of that, thank G-d for air conditioning.

I'd be happy if it never got above 75, yes, though I like temperatures cooler than 50, too. As long as there's enough sun and rain for my plants, that is :-)

So last night after reading this entry I went and checked out this service and it looks pretty darn cool... alisa and I are thinking about trying it out, but I had a few questions for you.

first off it looks like you are on the veggie only plan, but what size do you get delivered and how often? I wanted to get a feeling for what we might want to do... I think we would end up going with a mix of fruit and veggies but its hard to know what size is desirable when I dont know how big the deliveries are.

second, can you change your delivery after you sign up and how hard is that to do?

thats about it... I assume you are happy with the service since you keep getting deliveries.

I'm on the veggies-only plan, because I had been getting 2/3 veggies, 1/3 fruit, only they seemed to send me far too much fruit for me to deal with. And I get the more intriguing veggies (mushrooms, artichokes), which I like.

I get a large box, every other week, and there are definitely a number of things on my never-deliver list (I'm not fond of celery, for instance).

I can change my delivery when I want (I think they require it to be by the Friday before delivery to go through in time), and it's very easy online. So far I've changed proportions, size of box, and asked them to not bring a delivery (while I was on vacation).

I am happy with the service. I'm thinking of getting a smaller and/or more fruit box for the summer, though, since I also got a farm share, starting next week. I haven't decided, though... Some of it depends on the sorts of things I tend to get; what I might do is take more things off the Boston Organics list (there's really only so much lettuce one person can get through!).

This will be the first summer with the deliveries; I'm looking into leaving a cooler out, or maybe going to the deliver-inside option (they're bonded, if you want to give them keys to deliver inside).

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