"TammyM" > wrote in message
...
> On 20 Nov 2005 14:10:36 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Sun 20 Nov 2005 06:02:42a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Rhonda
>>Anderson?
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> On Sun 20 Nov 2005 01:42:28a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Rhonda
>>>> Anderson?
>>>
>>>>> If I did want spreadable butter in summer, I'd have to try the butter
>>>>> holder with the water like Jill has, and see if that worked. On the
>>>>> plus side, except in the coldest weather, it doesn't really take too
>>>>> long for butter to soften enough for creaming when baking cakes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rhonda Anderson
>>>>> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the butter bells do keep it firmer. We keep our home
>>>> air-conditioned to 70-72 degrees in the summer, so butter left out is
>>>> not a melting problem.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wayne, do you mean that your air-conditioning runs all the time, even
>>> when you're not home?
>>>
>>> Rhonda Anderson
>>> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
>>
>>Yes, most of the time. Our summer temps are almost always above 110
>>degrees F, often running as high as 115 and occasionally as high as 118.
>>If we didn't run the air-conditioning, it could/would affect many things
>>in the house, not just the butter. :-) Our 5 housecats and 1 puppy would
>>probably have heatstroke.
>>
>>Here it is past the middle of November and we're still having temps in the
>>low 90s. All the penalty of living in the desert. :-)
>
> I use mine similarly here in summer. When it gets hot (anything over
> 95 qualifies as hot to me, even though the weatherman-I-mean
> meteorologist insists on calling it merely warm until it's over 100!),
> I close up the house in the morning and set the thermostat at 80. It
> cools nicely at night here, so after sundown, I open up the house, and
> before I go to bed, run the whole house fan to cool down the attic.
> Keeps things comfortable.
>
> TammyM in Sacramento, California

One of those wrong decisions in life. Here's how it goes. Put on a new
roof, so DH puts in attic fan to exhaust air and decides to have the soffets
cut larger at the same time. Now the whole house fan pulls in sawdust from
wherever it is coming from: the attic near the new roof installation, the
soffets, etc. No more using whole house fan, just a/c which is almost
prohibitable in $$. We only central a/c on one floor most of the time, and
window a/c in part of the other floor. -- no comments that we should get a
smaller house, please, no way!

Dee Dee