I am sick of the heat. I start to hit the wall about the end of August. I am tired of watering every day. I am tired of seeing crispy roses. I am tired of my candles melting in the house. Im tired of black dirty shoe soles from the oiled streets and I am really tired of the $175-200 air conditioning bill. Bring on the cool

I ***wish*** we had a $200 utility bill! I think all our efforts to reduce the bill - blowing in insulation, replacing single pane windows, getting new high SEER-rated AC's (split system) - were all for naught. SRP raised the rates each time and erased the hoped-for savings. It didn't help that I insisted on an AC for the shed so the dogs could stay cool. Anyhow, I am sick, sick, sick of the heat!! All this talk about "cooling down to the low 90's" just makes me hotter. As soon as the dewpoint drops a little more, on comes the evap for about a month or two and then I'm turning it all off. No furnace here; there's not enough winter to warrant turning it on.

tf, we've been running the swamper for at least two weeks. When a/c is on I check the dew point every morning....it's been in the 40's for some time.

I sometimes feel like the idiot who bangs his head against the wall because it feels so good when he quits. hahahah! By the time cooler temps come I am *so* ready. I (we) stay house-bound for the worst of it....reading mostly, napping.....I don't *have* to be out in it so can opt out. It's really hard for those that have no choice. I look at the folks who work on the asphalt....ye gads Batman. That's hard.