Fans

One month from today on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, the Summer Solstice will occur.  If you don't have a plan to beat the heat yet, now seems like a good time to think about doing so.

My initial though is to hire women to fan me while wearing swim suits but, unfortunately, this is not practical from a financial point of view.

Air conditioning is cool (hilarious, right!?!) but it takes a lot of energy and energy is expensive in California.

Fans are a really good solution to managing high temperatures.  I've spent hours with my nose in home furnishing magazines recently and it seems that big faced silver/ nickel colored metal fans enclosed in matching metal wire enclosures seem to be popular these days.

If you could find such a fan with working motor, you could build your own stand for it to make a fancy floor fan. 

Here is an example of the type of fan I'm talking about, which happens to be done in brass instead of nickel/ silver:

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Also, birdcages seem  to take up a lot of background space in home furnishing publications.

This post sort of relates to an earlier post about clocks, which can be viewed online here.