Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-08-07 22:51
I live in a 1920s four-square house with no air conditioning, and in case y'all hadn't heard, we're havin' a heat wave in the American Midwest this week. And according to my minimum-maximum thermometer, it's 92 degrees in my bedroom right now.
Which is cooler than the 96 degrees it is outside. We open all the windows at night, use four big air-moving fans to pull cool air through, then close the windows tightly at dawn. This keeps the house noticeably cooler during the day than it is outdoors.
Of course, "cooler" is relative. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
But temps over 90 degrees play merry hell with my cork grease every summer (this is now my third summer to experience this phenomenon). It comes out of its little tube in a semi-liquid state, and doesn't really lubricate--the cork just makes little squeaky noises, and the joints don't really want to slide together happily like they normally do.
Just one more of the joys of living in the Midwest. Ice storms, tornadoes, heat waves, what a delightful place.
Maybe I should start keeping the cork grease in the fridge. I already have "oboe stuf" all over the bedroom, what's a couple tubes of cork grease in the fridge...
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