I hardly ever write about life in the desert, even though that’s the name of this blog…but this morning, as I sit here preping my grocery list for the coming week (we’ve made a “we will not eat out this week” pact here in the House of Hagz) I realized two things:
- I am so fortunate to live in a place like Phoenix, where the sun shines far more than it doesn’t shine – allowing me to leave behind my seasonal depression, which was something I dealt with when we lived in Chicago. Oh and hello almost February – I hardly knew you were here, since we still haven’t turned on our heater this year
And
- Because of the heat caused by the blazing hot sun during most of the year (although, not this time of year really), we have to have sun screens on our windows – which translates into not really being able to get much (if any) sunlight in my house on days like today – when it’s beautiful outside, the birds are singing and the sun is shinning down beautiful rays of sunshine.
I know what you’re thinking, “seriously Brandy, you need a life” and it’s true, I do – but for some reason, today – I want some of those beautiful rays to fill my house with sunshine, so I can sit here and listen to the birds sing .
Eh, I guess it’s back to compiling the grocery list. At least I can hear the birds, even if I can’t see them out of my armor coated windows.
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You haven’t used your heater at all?? Impressive!!
For 2 months or so of winter we experience inversion/smog so we don’t see the sun at all. How gross is that? I’m way more jealous of you for that fact, than just for the temperatures.
I read your other blog posts too–I’m sorry it’s such a hard time.
Way to look on the bright side and appreciate the sunshine helping you through. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with you and your boys.
I wondered about that — the flip side. So do you have winter screens on some houses the way some houses here have storm windows?
Well, we actually have two sets of screens – regular insect screens, that come standard on all windows and typically cover the bottom (or top) half of the window (whatever side opens) and then we have these things called “Sun Screens” or sometimes “Shade Screens” – they are a tighter mesh that covers the entire window and goes over the existing insect screens (if you want, or you can remove the insect screens) – but they come in ‘coverage precentages’ – so you can get mesh that is really tight or some not so tight.
The old man works for a company that makes windows (and buys sun screens) so we got them at cost and opted for a 90% mesh.
You install them by screwing these brackets into the existing window (not the glass, the metal) and if you unscrew them, it kind of ‘hollows out’ the hole making rehanging harder. So, we just leave them up all year.
I’ll take a picture tomorrow (the sun is down now) and post it so you can see what I mean.
So the short answer is – yes, we could take the summer time sun screens down during the winter and have just regular insect screens – but it’s a lot of work and could make rehanging hard.
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