Too. Hot. Send. Help.

One of the bestest things about Maine is the fact that it’s almost always cool here. It’ll get up into the 80s and 90s, sure, but at night, it’ll drop down into the low 60s or high 50s, and that’s all it really takes to cool off your house and leave things pleasant.

Except . . .

Every now and then, it decides it wants to stay in the 70s at night. And when it does that, I am one unhappy Bryce.

We don’t have central air conditioning. There’s just no need for it. We have a couple of window mounted units, but I typically don’t even bother with those. It’s a lot of hassle for just a few evenings’ worth of needed use. But when those hotter evenings come around, I inevitably wish I’d already installed them. Plus, we’ve now moved our bedroom over to be above the garage, and I can officially report that when it’s in the 70s outside at night, that new bedroom is hot hot hot.

Hot enough that the first thing I do when I get up in the morning is check Amazon to see how much a portable A/C unit would be. ($400) Not hot enough that I went and dropped $400 on the thing, though. (Tonight’s supposed to be worse. Maybe I’ll reconsider.)

My plan at the moment is plenty of fans, and perhaps a spray bottle by my bed. If I wake up at night and am too hot, I can spray myself down. Is this what I’ve come to? There are two things in life I dislike: being wet, and being hot. I’m just discovering that it’s better to be slightly wet and not hot than just hot. So I guess I dislike being hot more than being wet. What a discovery to make.

Do any of you out there have some ways of dealing with temperatures? I’m sure my Arizona readers are laughing themselves silly as I complain about temperatures in the 70s. That’s okay. I laugh at them when they complain about it being too “cold.”

Thank goodness it looks like tomorrow night is back to a low of 50 degrees . . .