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Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
"Yowie" wrote in message ... "Gandalf" wrote in message On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat" wrote: I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this winter. Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat! But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of course. Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully. I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm, and I can add more clothing. I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work, and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house. Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night? It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and I'm toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily cope with those sorts of temperatures. I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on at some point after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as the two previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on 'her' mat on the kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks of putting so much as a whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is once again shedding into the clean laundry pile. None of them are seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the computers, the top of the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its about 13C, 55F in here at the moment. That would be "warm" for my house in the winter if I was out at work or in bed (which means my woodburner would be too) Am I the only person who has found my flannel (face towel) had fallen into the bath and frozen to the plughole overnight? Probably ;-) Tweed |
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Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA.
outsider wrote: I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but maybe folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode they are running. Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area? Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have electric heat. They're baseboard space heaters, one for each room (except kitchen and bathroom). I don't know if that's relevant to your question or not, because I'm not sure what "heat pump" means. I've never heard the phrase before, though. Since I'm a renter I tend not to pay close attention to that stuff. I just call it "the heat". The building doesn't come with a/c (by which I mean only air-cooling and dehumidifying), although I bought a small window unit which cools just one room. I don't use it that often though - I used it mainly when I was working at home on extremely hot days. Don't work at home anymore. Mostly it's pretty temperate where I live, so a fan does the job pretty well. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
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Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
"outsider" wrote in message
wrote in : I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA. Yeah. outsider wrote: I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but maybe folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode they are running. Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area? Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have electric heat. Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need for heat is not great. In those locations heat pumps are economical compared to other sources but I don't think they can produce enough heat for northern locations. I think that is how it works. That would be us :-). Need for cool temps in summer is great (it got to 52C, 125F in the kitchen one year before we had a/c), need for warming in winter is desirable, but not great. It never snows here, for example, and even frosts are very rare. Students that come for work experience from places like Canada and Northern America always complain they're very cold in winter - thats because our houses don't usually come with built-in heating or insulation, and usually cheap rental accomodation has no heat (besides the stove top) at all. In cheap rental accomodation, if its 10C outside, it will probably be close to 10C on the inside, too. When I was flatting, a two bar electric radiant heater did the trick, though, and warmed the lounge/dining/kitchen of the 2 bedroom apartment quite adequately, but we had to puchase that ourselves. It just plugged into a normal electric wall socket. I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a rough idea of my climate. Yowie |
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Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
On Jul 25, 7:30*pm, outsider wrote:
wrote : I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA. Yeah. outsider wrote: I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but maybe folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode they are running. *Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area? Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have electric heat. Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need for heat is not great. *In those locations heat pumps are economical compared to other sources but I don't think they can produce enough heat for northern locations. *I think that is how it works. We have a heat pump. Like you said, it's great in the summer, but when it's really frigid outdoors, it doesn't seem to warm the house well. Normal operation when it's really cold is that it blows lukewarm air, constantly. You never get a blast of hot air like you do with a gas furnace. It seems very efficient though; our bills are much lower than neighbors with regular electric central heat. Sherry Sherry |
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Heat Pump and A/C
outsider wrote:
Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need for heat is not great. In those locations heat pumps are economical compared to other sources but I don't think they can produce enough heat for northern locations. I think that is how it works. OK, then I doubt I have a heat pump. It might produce enough heat for the winter here, but we don't have a great need for A/C. Most homes do not have A/C around here. It's often foggy and cool in the summer, with the occasional very hot day, but not enough of them to justify installing central air conditioning. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Heat Pump and A/C
Yowie wrote:
I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a rough idea of my climate. Do you have high humidity, too? I think South Carolina is very humid. I've never been there, but in general the southern east coast of the US is very humid. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Heat Pump and A/C
wrote in message ... Yowie wrote: I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a rough idea of my climate. Do you have high humidity, too? I think South Carolina is very humid. I've never been there, but in general the southern east coast of the US is very humid. Charleston SC usually has 85%+ humidity, as does our area. They average 5-10 F hotter than us as well. We have a heat pump, we do use it every winter and it usually works well enough, but we also have a fireplace with an insert that works when it gets really cold as the furnace doesn't warm enough for us to get away with regular shirt sleeves and I hate asking family and friends to wear sweaters ala Jimmy Carter. Pam S. |
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Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
Christina Websell wrote:
"Yowie" wrote in message ... "Gandalf" wrote in message On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat" wrote: I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this winter. Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat! But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of course. Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully. I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm, and I can add more clothing. I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work, and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house. Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night? It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and I'm toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily cope with those sorts of temperatures. I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on at some point after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as the two previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on 'her' mat on the kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks of putting so much as a whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is once again shedding into the clean laundry pile. None of them are seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the computers, the top of the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its about 13C, 55F in here at the moment. That would be "warm" for my house in the winter if I was out at work or in bed (which means my woodburner would be too) Am I the only person who has found my flannel (face towel) had fallen into the bath and frozen to the plughole overnight? Probably ;-) Tweed I have a glass of water by my bed at night, more than once I've gone to take a sip and found it frozen. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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