A picture from the war zone

We are going with a odd sort of air conditioning system. We're going to go as green as we can, starting with the orientation of the house which will ensure that the morning sun enters the living areas while the hot afternoon sun hits a windowless wall.

We are considering using something called a mini-split system, wherein each room has its own indvidual unit, which are long skinny things that are placed as high as possible on the wall. They are quiet, which is important, because while building our country home nearly 20 years ago, we lived in a mobile home on the property and the worst thing about that was the a/c noise.

I had been having a difficult time with picturing how they would look and how well they would work because from the description they would be too small to do anything. Yesterday, we were looking at photos from our nephew in Baghdad. One of them was of the thermometer registering 140 degrees. Another was of a computer center and Pat said, "Oh, there are our a/c units." I hadn't even noticed them they were that small. But, if they can combat 140 degree desert heat, then I guess they'll work for Alamance County Augusts.