I can still remember spending Summers with my Grandparents.
My mom raised us by herself and she often worked a couple of jobs to do it.
So while mama was inside the commercial Heating and A/C at work, my sibling and I were at our Grandparents while in the morning. It was honestly pretty sweet as they lived out in the country. There was a pond, woods and all manner of things for a young lad to get into. My sister stayed pretty close to my Grandma. But I was outside of the cooling and into the sweltering heat of summer time all morning, every morning. I think back to the cooling method my Grandpa used. It was not the heat pump or any sort of central a/c. Gramps had what my friend and I call a swamp cooler. That’s a colloquial term from this region to describe an evaporative cooler. This sort of cooling method uses the natural evaporation process to lessen the temperature inside a home. It’s fairly effective for dropping the temperatures a bit. And around here while in the Summer, any relief is welcome relief when it comes to the heat. However, with a swamp cooler, there is no humidity excess like with the modern Heating and A/C technology like a heat pump. A heat pump reduces the humidity levels as part of the a/c process. That’s not the case with an evaporative cooler. I can remember that old apartment regularly having a bit of a bleach stink because my Gramps was regularly fighting the mold and mildew from all that heat and humidity. When I reflect on those days gone by, it makes me all the more grateful to have fantastic residential Heating and A/C and perfect temps.