Cool Pool

When we looked out the window this morning and saw the hazy view of the mountains our first thought was to check the humidity, since intense heat warnings had been issued for all the near-by desert regions. Yes, the humidity had certainly arrived. We knew that our swamp coolers would not give any relief... it was time to turn on the air conditioner. A "what if we had an outage " discussion began.

If you are a resident of Borrego, you are fairly familiar with such events, but, hopefully not in extremely hot weather. Though we have a roof full of solar panels, all the power goes directly into the grid and would not help us run the air conditioning unit should an outage occur. The question... how to stay cool... IF? ( and, remember, we have Lola to think of, too! )

AHA!!! We had done some plan B work in advance. We had installed two sprinklers on either side of the swimming pool! They work off the pool pump. When the water gets too hot ( as it certainly will during summer if you have a pool cover to minimize evaporation. We do and, in summer, sometimes the top few inches of water feels like you have jumped into a hot spring. ) We found the pool temperature at 91 degrees, this morning so turned on the sprinklers. They sprinkle into the air and are cooled before they re-enter the pool. This serves to reduce the temperature of the pool water and gives us a place to cool off...just in case!