[Rain Man]

I average about 7 according to my Garmin, which is more than I thought.

But I have a different topic that may not be worth its own thread: sleeping outside.

As background, our swamp cooler had a broken water line when we started to crank it up this year, and it's hard to fix because it goes up the side of our house and the break was 20 feet up. Simultaneously, we had dinner at a neighbor's house, and he was extolling the virtues of his ductless A/C system. So my wife said that perhaps it was time to consider an air conditioning system, and I've been in charge of that. It's a very slow process since most HVAC people are incapable of calling a potential customer back to schedule an appointment.

So that's the background. It's been in the upper 90s in Denver every day, and our bedroom is on the third floor of our house and what's kind of a large attic layout. It's surrounded by roof on three sides, so it gets brutally hot. 100 degrees plus on these days.

Well, my wife retreated to the living room couch on the first floor since the second floor is also pretty warm. I scouted around and decided that our little third floor balcony could be nice. So I dragged up one of our patio chaise lounges, put a comforter on it, and slept out there.

Man, it's been divine. The temperature drops to the lower 60s at night, so it's very pleasant. I look up at the stars, get my skin caressed by cool breezes, and I'm protected because the balcony has a three foot wall or higher on every side. I want to sleep out there permanently in the summer now. I think that perhaps people are meant to sleep outdoors.

I'm not into camping, but I'm loving this outdoor thing. The house originally had a sleeping porch on the second floor that was removed at some point in the past century, and those original builders knew what they were doing.

Anyone else sleep outside in the summer?