Almost High Tech
The Devil Queen is on the cusp of going high-tech. I picked this little monster, an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station, up at CompUSA yesterday.
Unfortunately, we are still stuck in the Purgatory of dial-up internet. Cable is not an option yet, and I don’t have a grand to blow on having satellite internet access installed. Until something changes, this is as good as it gets. I have to keep reminding myself that it is (almost?) better than nothing.
We’re going to have a second go at the paint scraping death-match. I’m psyched for it but Ms. Scarlet isn’t too enthused. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
We’re hoping to scrape at least one window frame this weekend so we can reinstall the old storm windows which have screens. Currently, not one window in the Queen has a screen on it. Since the temperatures have dropped into the 70’s and low 80’s during the day and low 60’s at night, we no longer need to run the AC. However, since bugs are still a massive problem, we can’t open the windows.
Here is our low tech solution.
I’ve temporarily wired (a wire tied off between two screw-eyes, on the door and one on the jamb) the back screen door shut. This serves two purposes. First, it keeps the door snug in the jamb. There is no where for bugs to crawl in around it. It also protects us from maurading wild animals and ax murderers. Right.
The two small holes in the screen were patched with some old screen I salvaged and viola. The floor-fan does a great job of cooling the house down, but opening the windows would be nice.
Have a good weekend and wish us luck. If I survive the death-match, I'll let you know how it goes.
Unfortunately, we are still stuck in the Purgatory of dial-up internet. Cable is not an option yet, and I don’t have a grand to blow on having satellite internet access installed. Until something changes, this is as good as it gets. I have to keep reminding myself that it is (almost?) better than nothing.We’re going to have a second go at the paint scraping death-match. I’m psyched for it but Ms. Scarlet isn’t too enthused. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
We’re hoping to scrape at least one window frame this weekend so we can reinstall the old storm windows which have screens. Currently, not one window in the Queen has a screen on it. Since the temperatures have dropped into the 70’s and low 80’s during the day and low 60’s at night, we no longer need to run the AC. However, since bugs are still a massive problem, we can’t open the windows.
Here is our low tech solution.
I’ve temporarily wired (a wire tied off between two screw-eyes, on the door and one on the jamb) the back screen door shut. This serves two purposes. First, it keeps the door snug in the jamb. There is no where for bugs to crawl in around it. It also protects us from maurading wild animals and ax murderers. Right.The two small holes in the screen were patched with some old screen I salvaged and viola. The floor-fan does a great job of cooling the house down, but opening the windows would be nice.
Have a good weekend and wish us luck. If I survive the death-match, I'll let you know how it goes.
posted by John | 5:44 PM
4 Comments:
At home depot, you can buy these little screen things that expand to fit the width of your window - so you can open the window, insert the screen, then close the window sash down on top of it. We've got TONS and dont' know what we'd do without them. Heres a picture.
Those are freaking awesome. We'll have to get some since that will be a lot easier than finishing the paint job in the next couple of weeks. Thanks!
Wow, I can't get over the fact that you maintain your blog with a dial-up connection. Hats off to you!
Thanks Aaron, but I have to admit that I cheat some. Whenever I can (particularly when I have a lot of pictures) I'll use my in-laws computer since the have satellite internet.
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