auroracloud | (Reply)

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I hope you got better sleep tonight! I can fully sympathize; I felt the same yesterday. People keep asking us if we didn't have problems sleeping with the midnight sun. We didn't, but we do now, when it got so hot in the night again. *sigh* What you said yesterday: indeed! I confess I'm always looking for the cooler temperatures when we can manage a summer trip to the North, as the uninterrupted heat we now seem to have each year really wears me out. The first day is bearable, but from the second day onwards I'm incapable of doing much beyond getting everybody fed and waiting for the precious one or two hours in the night when it cools down (if it does). Living in a Swedish wooden house is proving to be somewhat disadvantageous by now: it's terrific for saving energy for heating, and I really adore the indoor climate (can you say that?). But the insulation against heat is not as good, and the super-insulated triple-paned windows are great in winter, but also not that great in summer as they're designed to draw the heat inside. And as the'yre Swedish windows, thus opening to the outside, we can't use the usual roller blinds as a heat protection. There are other methods, not as effective but doable, but since they're not designed for this type of windows, getting anything we could use is super-expensive, and hasn't been affordable to us so far. I love those windows, but I wish we'd been told that we wouldn't get anything regular for them in Germany.
Ahem, sorry for that. I'm just somewhat grumpy after another restless night, looking forward to a hot day. At least my tomatoes will like it. ^^
My tally for yesterday is a few token words again; I was too brain-dead for more.