Perverse
Yesterday afternoon, temperatures topped 106', and our air-conditioning broke.
Our house is mostly glass, which means that our house became mostly a greenhouse.
Late into the night, things hadn't really cooled down at all; children were in their lightest pyjamas for bed, fed up on popsicles and ice-water, and with only the sheets pulled over them. But as everyone sweated and mumbled, I lay in bed in perfect comfort, despite a pang of sudden homesickness, and that night I enjoyed the best sleep I'd had in months.
Our house is mostly glass, which means that our house became mostly a greenhouse.
Late into the night, things hadn't really cooled down at all; children were in their lightest pyjamas for bed, fed up on popsicles and ice-water, and with only the sheets pulled over them. But as everyone sweated and mumbled, I lay in bed in perfect comfort, despite a pang of sudden homesickness, and that night I enjoyed the best sleep I'd had in months.