Well...I thought I was making some headway on “surviving on nothing” until yesterday when our air conditioning stopped. Miserable, miserable. Checked into a motel for one night to “survive”. Turned the room air up to maximum. LOL Repairman coming to look at ours soon. Guess I’ve got a long way to go yet.
when our air conditioning stopped. Miserable, miserable.<<<
You didn’t learn from Mary, she would have had you stripped and wearing a wet towel, with another on your head.
You can use the wet towel method, with light clothing, but the air on the skin is better.
You hang your dress on the door knob, in case of company.
She also served lemons in the water for the field hands and in the years she could not afford lemons, she used vinegar.
Vinegar in a milk goats water will give you sweeter milk, LOL, yes I have tried it.
I started playing with my cokes in the cans, if you wrap one in a wet handtowel, it will cool down and be a nice drink, it is wrapped and laying on the desk, in a big lid to catch the drips.
One should not drink ice cold drinks, in extreme heat.
In the old days, the farm workers, who walked the 40 miles from Mexico, could do so on about 2 gallons of very strong Nescafe instant coffee, in milk jugs.
Did you know that barrel cactus, with the head cut off, contains a liquid that can be squeezed from the inside pulp and you can stay alive on it.
Our local Wellton Doctor, [Dr. Kline], told me that when the men came in in bad shape and wanted ice water to NOT give it to them and if they were really dehydrated to give them salt water.
The day I tried it on a man, he asked for water, and wanted more, he also asked for help for the rest of his party/family, they were dying and several did.
I called for help for them and he kept wanting too much water.
So as Dr. Kline had ordered, if they are wanting to drink too much, make them take a salt bath, or at least get as much on them as you can.
Here is a 40 year old man, who has walked more than 40 miles in 115 to 120 degrees and I order him to get in the wash tub of salt water in the patio.
By then, he knew I was insane, salt water to drink and bathe in.
LOL, he did not remove his clothes, but was afraid of me and so stood in the tub saying over and over “Muy Loco, Senora, Muy Loco.”
If he thought that was crazy, he should have stuck around.
When it is hot, the lemon water is the best idea, and cold coffee, which I sip all day.
Stay away from ice cold any thing and super sweet drinks, beer will really do a number on you in the extreme heat.
Oh, well a motel works....LOL Think of it as a mini-vacation.