Lamy Safari pen, Noodlers Ink, Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook
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(EDM = Everyday Matters art group)
We’re having a record breaking heat wave this week. My neighborhood used to be foggy and cool 90% of the time, being directly in line with the Golden Gate Bridge and a few blocks from the San Francisco Bay. The past month has been uncharacteristically sunny and warm and this week the temperature is in the high 80s to 90. I spent last night tossing and turning like a roterissie chickens roasting on a spit. I lay there muttering over and over, “Tomorrow I’m buying an air conditioner!” I called Home Depot when they opened at 7:00 a.m. and they said they had a good supply of portable air conditioners, having just put them on display.
When I arrived at 8:30 a.m. they were nearly sold out and I got the last name-brand one, a Sharp portable air conditioner. I LOVE IT! It rolls on casters and is nice and quiet. I put it in the studio today because I was working from home half the day and planned to paint the rest of the day. It was really easy to hook up (you just plug it in, attach the hose to a plastic sliding thingy that goes in the window). And then blissful cool…..ahhh.
Making an effort to be more comfortable, or to just make life more satisfying has become a focus for me since it really hit me how finite my life is. Little things like a comfortable bed or desk, pleasant temperature, cutting the stupid itchy tags off the back of clothes…can make such a difference. Why suffer?
(P.S…I know…ACs aren’t good for global warming…but I promise to only use it when it gets ridiculously hot….)
Jana Bouc, Artist 
10 replies on “COOL: EDM 28 & 77 (Appliance & Something Cool)”
very nice- I could almost feel the cool air blowing out of your new toy!
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Glad to hear you’re enjoying your new AC, Jana. Do you find that the hose part that attaches to the window gets hot? You’ve done a great job on the sketch, especially the hose part. 🙂
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what a cool ac…didnt know they made these…my parents need one…nice job as usual
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What a fun sketch and great story!!
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Hon, use it when you need it. I’m having a great deal of trouble with the concept of global warming anyway, given our very cold temps this spring here, freezing all the buds and blossoms on the trees for a week or so, cool and rainy here the last few weeks, very cold winters and so forth.*GG* As a student of global and environmental history, I’m very well aware of cyclical heat waves and “Little Ice Ages” through the centuries…this is nothing new. In the 1700s, there was a year with record-breaking hurricanes, both in ferocity and frequency. It passed. Remember the Dust Bowl? It passed. Remember reading about “the year there was no summer”? It passed. I’m no ostrich, but I don’t believe the sky is falling, either, so if you need to be comfortable to work and to get some sleep, please don’t be hard on yourself?
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If you promise to only use it when it’s ridiculously hot then it’ll have to have more uses than cooling the house. How about drawing it again? That’s a great use and you excel at it.
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WONDERFUL JOB on this Jana! That hose is just AWESOME! Here in NC 90F temps are the bane of our summers … with humidity to match — there is no living without a/c .. as important as global warming is ….
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May is surely very early for a heatwave – poor you. Your run of dream sketches is so amusing.
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OMG I could not live without a/c. I am in southwest florida and i swear it is hell most of the year. So glad u got an a/c! 🙂 Nice sketch! 🙂
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Love this one Jana. You are so versatile.
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