About a Box

All year, Chad has been wanting to install an attic fan, to send our hot air out through the attic vents, and keep the house a bit cooler. Well, I suppose ideally you would venture up into the attic to do the installation sometime in the winter. Then again, in the winter you are busy doing things like knitting warm sweaters, making hot chocolate, and sealing drafty windows...no time left to install fans. So today, as news anchors all over the Bay Area were getting ready to lead with stories about triple digit heat, Chad was climbing the ladder.
I made him pose for a silly action shot, and he was kind enough to ham it up for me.
The fan came in a nice, cardboard box, which quickly turned into a puppet theater......
And a cat house.
Er, that is, a boy house.
Eventually, we all found our way outside, where we spent the first of many, many Saturdays splashing in our not-too-cold, super awesome little pool.
Chad got the attic fan running (which is solar-powered, by the way....cha ching on the green points for us), and went to Lowe's to buy some recycled plastic boards for the pool deck! (Cha ching, cha ching! ) Our pleasure, Mister Lorax.