Yesterday (Day three) brought a lot less usage on appliances, except when it came time for dinner. We traditionally aren't hot breakfast and lunch people (the thought of cooking breakfast only really sounds good at midnight the previous day), so it really wasn't much of a choice.
Dinner in and of itself was (again) done on the grill, except for a pot of rice that took all of 25 minutes on the stove to cook. It's really nice, actually, not having a bunch of pots and pans to do. Following dinner, I filled both sides of our double sink to wash the dishes and spent far less energy than the dishwasher would have, I'm sure (see article below on using the dishwasher vs. handwashing dishes.)
By using the light of the day, getting things done during waking hours, and planning when things will get done such as washing, drying, etc., things are falling into place around the house. The oven wasn't even on yesterday, sparing me my internal debate about whether or not something is broken with it, being as it takes (or seems to take) longer and longer to heat up.
The air conditioning was forced to run for about 5 hours yesterday; however, it was turned off about 10:00PM, before anyone went to bed, and has remained off since, so I'm not too concerned about energy usage from it.
However, today (Day Four) is washday, so we'll see how many loads of laundry it takes to keep this family in clean clothes for the rest of the week! Also, since the teenager of the house was gone most of the weekend but has now returned, the laptop is once again vying for full domination of the house, especially since youtube seems to be a favorite channel...along with the Zune that is constantly plugged into some system or another and blasting music that I fondly remember enjoying in my youth, despite its heavy-metal-ness and contstant instrumental solos that sound rather...painful.
Thank you everyone, have a good day! More on the currently family project tomorrow.
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