We jury rigged our air conditioner in our one bedroom window last night. Our bedroom is a converted and finished attic and it was the 100+ degree temperature that prompted us to put an air conditioner into the only window that we have in our room: a casement window, the kind you turn a crank to open. Looks like this:

Modern air conditioners work best in double hung windows or a similarly equivalent. Had we a double hung window, the whole process of installing the ac would have taken 10 minutes, not 40 minutes:

I will post pics later since it was too hot and too late to shoot, x’fer and post last night but imagine if you will: the casement window cranked open, the air conditioner balancing on the edge of the cranked out window, two pieces of wood vertically screwed into the air conditioner for downward pressure, a left over piece of blue insulation from the air vents at our old house wedged at the top, and a 150 foot orange extension cord excessively running from one of the two ill-placed electrical outlets in our bedroom. Effective? Yes. Permanent? Let’s hope not, for the sake of all who walk below the air conditioner! If you come over to our house, keep your eyes up, consider yourself fairly warned.

The 40 minutes of profuse sweating plus the crankiness of the late hour and the heat was all worth it when I woke up this morning and I had to pull the blankets over me… because it was a lovely 64 degrees F in our bedroom. And my eyes and nose weren’t dry from circulated air from a box fan. And it was 10 degrees warmer in the rest of the house that had been venilating all night. Ahhhh, AC…