Just turned on the AC.

[LizStreithorst]

It's been so hot and humid and rainy that I've been needing to turn it on for almost a week now.  When the ceramic floor sweats it's either the AC or the dehumidifier.  76 degrees is too hot for the dehumidifier.  I didn't do it before now because it offended me to use AC at the end of December.

Today I mopped and the floor refused to dry.  I bit the bullet and closed the door and windows and turned it on.  The floor is drying nicely.  Another nice thing is that my house is smelling better.  I do my best to make the house not smell doggy, but I have 7 dogs so the poor house has no choice to smell like dogs.  I don't smell it but normal people must smell it.  With all this humidity even I could smell dog.  The AC has taken the odor away.  It makes me feel less like "the old crazy dog woman"

[Mugwump]

...If ya need it..use it...is my motto....

I can never understand folks dialing down the thermostat to 60-65deg's in winter............why?....are you really saving that much if your house is reasonably insulated?...

[Barb]

Yesterday and today I almost turned ours on too.  But fans worked so far.  Way too hot for me here this time of year.  I had to get shorts and flip flops back out.  How is your weather today Liz?  Looks bad on the TV.  Poor Texas.
Barb

[LizStreithorst]

It's OK here so far and they say it will get better and cooler tomorrow.  I was in shorts and a T shirt all day yesterday and today.  I have an Iris fixin' to bloom!  I betcha that when it turns cold it turns bitter cold.