Aw, geez. I am so not ready for this. I took this picture 15 minutes before the time stamp for this post:
Well, leave your shorts at home!
As far as I’m concerned, 2007 is The Year it Never Got Warm. There may have been people in Taos County who got hot last summer, but I wasn’t one of them. Even on 80+ degree days, and there weren’t that many of them on our hillside, we’d be all set to sit outside at 5:00 p.m. and have a drink, but the clouds would rumble and there’d be storms, dropping the air temp 25 degrees before I’d opened the tequila. We still had to build occasional fires right up to the end of June, and I have one going now — there’s also a 30-knot wind, and our lawn chairs are in the next county.
The rotten, clanking converted coal furnace in our old farmhouse back in Maryland used to run through 150 gallons of heating oil each cold month, and I just read that heating oil is currently $2.75 a gallon — do the math and tremble… Good ole blow-your-stove-up piñon costs less than half as much on a monthly basis, but then we have to heat for twice as long. There’s a solar house in our future, as sure as you’re born. If you’ve never lived at this altitude and latitude, you simply wouldn’t believe how strong the sun is, even at zero degrees. Anyone building a home here who doesn’t go solar is a flaming idiot, and you can tell ‘em I said so.
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