The oddity of timing.

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While I could complain, I won't.  After ordering those curtains, getting them washed, dried, and hung, drooling over the notion for a while once I thought about things, and for the first time in, at least but possibly over, a month?  It rains and cools down overnight.  I will not be testing the thermal properties of my new curtains today.  Oh, but the cool is so delicious, for me to complain would be a serious breech in protocol, a faux pas of epic nature.  It would be akin to buying a parachute, for a flight, just in case, then not having to use it.  Not complaining.

The cool is delicious.  And while for that first bit, before the rain cooled things, it did become a slight swamp around here.  Still, even then, it was nowhere near as bad as Iowa is all of the time.  I am surprised I didn't get pneumonia or something living there.  More so with my heart backing up fluid like it, to some degree, had to be even back then.  Sleep!  I was able to get to sleep by 2:00, and probably could have been to sleep earlier but for the fact that I wasn't prepared.  My mind hadn't coiled around the mouse of possibilities until later, almost as habit now.  When I realized sleep could be had, and easily, and early, *bam*, I hit the sack like a 100 pounds of potatoes coming off the truck... times three.  :p  (there are worse analogies!)  Like I said, to bed by 2:00, and then up well before 9:00, maybe just after 8:00?  Something like that.  Oh, and sleep was beautiful  I even let the girls sleep with me, if the brats tried to roll me for food at 4:00 or 5:00.  Not happening.

It is still cool, and a bit overcast.  I think that will be ending soon though.  Hmm, after checking the curtains?  Yeah, they are keeping huge amounts of heat out.  Oh, these will make a world of difference, I think.  Standing near the ones facing the sun is like standing near a lit oven.  Wow.  Yep, I am ordering three more sets, for the bedrooms down here.  I am not sure about upstairs though.  While a bit pricey, at $40 a set ($20 apiece, but why not sell them as sets?  That's confusing to bachelors!), they are long lasting and will cut on the electric for ac. Well, when I say pricey, I mean according to my budget and man-brain for home things. Just... work with me. Yeah, I know, curtains can be had that cost hundreds, or even thousands. I will never be there, even if I became rich as a robber baron.

I'm not sure what is in the offing.  I am just drinking in the cool for now, waking slowly.  The cats have been fed, I may be soon or not.  The rest?  I just don't know.  If it stays cool in here but heats up out there, I'm not sure I want to venture out!  At least for today.