the rain is so heavy there is now a waterfall visible from the window behind my PC
and i've got my IR heater on with 450W single lamp turned on to dry my boots and legs
also, these pigeons often sit on those power lines at this time of day, though today they are extra soggy and puffed up
Incredible view! I need to get somewhere where there are mountains...
yeah, i'm gonna love being here in the wet season... it's subtropical climate here, winter wet, summer dry, and because i am on the very northern edge of the island, the cold wet air from the north atlantic basically dumps on this part of the island for about half of the days of the cold half of the year
the dramatic climate difference between the north and the south here is extreme, in march it's miserable drizzle and clouds on the north, and if you saw any photos of bitcoin atlantis conference... it was like 26'C and sunny all day long... coming on the bus across the middle of the island it was all dark and nasty until it got over to the other side and then gradually the clouds disappear and then it's downright summery
so the people want to live on the south, but the water is on the north, and as a consequence, there is a massive network of aqueducts (levadas) between springs on the north side and where people actually live on the south... the northern face of the islad blocks so much of the transit of humidity there is two little islands in the south that are called the Desert Islands, and they literalyl have like a few cactus on them and that's it, bone dry, no springs, no water, no rainfall
but yeah, with the cold arctic north winds blowing in it does get cold, sometimes as low as about 14'C and last winter i blew out my electricity bill, normally max 130 euro per month allowed in my rent deal, and i had to pay an extra 45... but that place was big and really shit for keeping heat contained... here i am in a little place and probably can find ways to mitigate a lot of the heat loss to the upstairs, probably mainly just to put curtains on the upstairs windows, it should retain a lot of heat as it has about 2" of foam insulation in the walls everywhere
yeah, i'm gonna try and find some kind of roller blind things that use a sheet of medium weight mylar when it comes to get really cold... receiving packages here though, idk even how that's going to work, i try to have them redirected to the nearby CTT service center (ponta delgada) but their system refuses to let me do it, and if they call me up and i have to ask them to send it somewhere else it takes days just to get moved like 1km west from where it was set to go
i'm hoping they are patient enough to wait for me to climb the quite high path up to the road to let me accept my deliveries... probably they will be because it's a caminho address and they have to deliver to many people who are as much as 30m downhill on nasty stairs from where the road opens to it
i'm thinking even about maybe doing something a bit DIY, making some kind of simple "roman blinds" out of rolls of bubblewrap, this will greatly decrease heat loss (conductive) while allowing the light to still come in... even just taping a bunch of highly transparent plastic over the windows would help because they aren't double glazed
Here at 2 o clock in the morninf noises in the roof... if not a jaguar nor a racoon prolly a burglar? 🤔🐸
haha, lol, jaguar... i know from stories my sister's husband told me about a little village near a river running out to the sea in central queensland that despite the supposed gun laws in australia, many people in tropical places in australia who live on the coast or near rivers own revolvers and have ammunition because you need at least a 9mm if not bigger to put down a saltwater crocodile
Lols yes; mosquitoes should be the less of our worries XD
oh they are annoying though, but fortunately where they are bad mostly the buildings have screens
It seems it was monkees 🐒. Prolly trying get in to hand the food and the rum... and the speakers and the laptop for a sudden rave upside river 📻🕺💃🦧
ah, man, in australia, the most common noise you hear on roofs is from possums... and even worse if they have a way into your ceiling cavity, little fuckers
possums are so funny... they have a new baby, marsupials the baby claws its way up to the pouch and sits there drinking off the titty until they are too big for the pouch and then the possum carries the baby on its back most of the time and then when they pop out another one and the other one gets too big for the pouch they have this raucus fight with the back-riding baby that will usually occur late at night (they are nocturnal) and the screeching and scratching on the plasterboards and whatnot, lol, it's hilarious
