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Oh my.
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 12:57 AM
THE CALPIG PRIMITIVE, #10 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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I'd never realized, until tonight, how nice ceiling fans can be...
I'm staying with my daughter for a couple of days and it's HOT up here in the high desert...
The A/C runs on and off all day, but at night, we turn it off, open the windows and allow the now-cool air in...
And turn on the ceiling fans.
Wow.
I had not realized just how efficient these are...
I'm sure the rest of you already knew, lol!
I am really comfortable!
You know, the whole post reads like a poem
franksolich has 11 of the CalPig primitive's poems copied off, ready to go in the mail tomorrow (Friday) to the Watch Tower magazine. If the world's largest-circulating magazine buys them--and they're a sure sell--the CalPig primitive will be lifted from the obscurity of Skins's island into international fame and notoriety.
MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 01:13 AM
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1. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!!!
I have only been impressed by ceiling fans under certain conditions (it has to be fairly CHILLY already).
Every single one I enjoyed had the functionality of a wind tunnel fan.
When I was sitting under them, I almost needed some sort of trapeze-like apparatus to HAUL myself up outta my chair.
My best friend (my OTHER best friend, Kali) has been in a wheelchair for 40-50 years now. He took me on a tour of his house and I saw the coolest lift-assist trapeze bars and swings and ropes n' stuff over his king-sized waterbed.
When I commented that it was the most amazing handicap apparatus I had ever seen, he looked at the bed and said, without cracking a smile, "WHAT handicap apparatus?"
I'm pretty sure he was being serious.
Gives you a little insight as to why I consider him to be one of my best friends, eh?
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 01:18 AM
THE CALPIG PRIMITIVE, #10 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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2. My dear MiddleFingerMom!
The fan I'm currently sitting under is twirling in a nicely cooled room...the window is open and the lovely cool desert air is entering!
NO wind tunnel going on here...
Your wheelchair-bound friend sounds like a very cool guy indeed!
Since you're cool yourself, I'd say it's no coincidence that you two are best of friends...
MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 01:23 AM
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3. He's gay AND in a wheelchair, so I tease him...
...by telling him that he qualifies as my "Tolerance Two-Fer".
He tells me to go **** myself.
6000eliot (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 03:15 AM
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7. They're all we have, Peggy.
No AC in our house. It's over 250 years old.
av8rdave (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 09:55 AM
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9. In the Texas heat, ceiling fans are a godsend!
My master bedroom has really high ceilings, and the a/c outlets are near the top of the room. Even though the cool air falls naturally, the fan balances the temperature throughout the room. When the outside temps are bearable, it's great to open the windows and reverse the fan. It draws the outside air in perfectly.
Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 10:34 AM
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10. Wouldn't be without ours.
We have them in each bedroom and a couple in our main living area.
They can help with the AC/heating as well. We're in an old farm house so they help distribute the window AC as well as the radiator heat. LOL, as long as I remember the climb up and flip the little reverse blade switch.
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 10:45 AM
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12. First thing I did when we moved into our house.
Installed ceiling fans in every room in the house and even put a couple on the back porch.
blueamy66 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 10:46 AM
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13. They are a godsend here in AZ.
I would roast and die without them.
MrsBrady (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 11:40 AM
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14. we have ceiling fans in every room here in texas
i can't open the windows, though....
it's still too hot/humid and I wouldn't be able to breath by the time the morning came if I did that.
however, i can push the temp up, and crank up the ceiling fan for whatever room Im in.
applegrove (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 10:15 PM
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18. Yup. I went up to the cottage last week. It was stinky hot inside but as it was evening it was cool outside with a nice breeze. Well I opened all the windows and turn on the ceiling fan in in no time the inside was a cool and refreshing as the woods outside. I had a beautiful sleep right underneath the ceiling fan on the livingroom couch.
elleng (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-21-10 10:42 PM
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19. Heat wave here (MD), my apt. in rear of OLD house, haven't used AC AT ALL!
Fans are great, and happy to save my landlady $!
struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-22-10 12:09 AM
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21. Good in the winter, too: mix the hot air at the ceiling back into the rest