LaurenandLloyd.com » experiment http://laurenandlloyd.com where our wasted time becomes your wasted time Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A little experiment http://laurenandlloyd.com/2009/01/15/a-little-experiment/ http://laurenandlloyd.com/2009/01/15/a-little-experiment/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:57:08 +0000 Lauren http://lloydandlauren.com/2009/01/15/a-little-experiment/ So, 9 p.m. rolled around again and I wandered around the house looking for some post fodder so I could go to bed.  Unfortunately it’s the biggest cold snap of the season and I left my point-and-shoot thermometer at school.   I took some pictures of the kitchen windows using my probe thermometer, and was surprised at how cold it was behind the towels ‘curtains’.

Burrzy wurrzy.

Yep, ‘Lo’.  It only reads to 32 degrees.  (It’s 66 on this side of the towel curtain. Dnag it!)  Time for an experiment! We’ll see if a shot glass of water will freeze on the window sill.  In the control group, I’ll also put a shot glass on a non-towel-covered window, rare though those may be in this house.   Brad, I’m sure you’ll be up before the results are posted.

Freeze, my little one, freeze.

UPDATE: Riddle me this.  It didn’t freeze – not even a little on the top.  Was the window sill too warm?  That’s my guess, since hte water itself is below 32.  Hmmph.

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]]> http://laurenandlloyd.com/2009/01/15/a-little-experiment/feed/ 19 With or without? http://laurenandlloyd.com/2007/06/18/with-or-without/ http://laurenandlloyd.com/2007/06/18/with-or-without/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:51:46 +0000 Lauren http://lloydandlauren.com/?p=698 I love our house. It’s old and creaky, but it’s ours. One thing I do not love about it, though, is how hot it gets upstairs in the summer. Brad can attest to this, since he sleeps in the hottest room in the building. Our regular plan is to close all the vents on the first floor so that the cold air is pumped all the way upstairs and then floats down, but that’s not terribly effective at night after the roof has baked all day. So we’re trying something new – putting a barrier up so that the cold has to stay around a little longer. So far it seems to work, although walking through it with a basket of laundry I accidentally gave Pfennig a pretty righteous kick in the side. Stupid cat. Who dares sleep in my path?!

That's right - it's a fitted sheet and a tension rod. Back off, NASA! Quit stealing our ideas!!

Hmmm. Blurry.

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