izmeina | A Pickled Python

It's been a wierd week.

It started just fine but then the mercury went ballistic.

Not just a bunch of 40 degree days but an electricity outage to add to the drama.

Since the electricity is underground in the local area, a fallen power pole was not a possible cause.

That left sabotage or the more likely possibility of a blackout due to a system overload especially since these days houses are much bigger with passive solar design being a totally alien concept in much of Oz, blocks are smaller & often taken up almost completely by the 4 bedroom 2 bathroom MacMansion

I'm lucky to have lots of trees and shade in the Lair instead of paving and pencil pines.

A good 3/4 of the trees I planted some 20 years ago so Lady Luck only gets some of the credit.

I had planned to get aircon for my bedroom but since getting the new fans last September, I noticed that they drastically reduced the number of hellish hot nights.
The roller shutters definitely help.

Putting all your eggs in the air conditioning basket is not much use when the electricity grid goes down

On the shop floor at work is lovely and cool but the back room is hot and stuffy even with the fans and aircon on.

We are now keeping the staff room door shut so that it's also a lovely cool sanctuary ary

I've definitely noticed getting a bit delirious with this weather. It's the humidity that's the real killer.

I just hope that these 40 Celsius days stay away for Christmas.

I turned off the Big Mac yesterday since it already had its snooze mode extended by the outage.

Now my main mission is to stay sane & keep the leaf babies alive over summer.