Garden, Camping & Festival no electricity Fridge!

Step 3 Watering

First use a jug or hose to gently wet the sand.  The first time you wet it, the sand may sink.  This isn't too much of a problem.  You're trying to water log the sand as much as possible.

The terracotta pot is porous, so it wicks the moisture into the external pot.

The sun and wind evaporate the water which causes heat loss - effectively cooling the inside.

To cover, use an old towel and wet this as well.  You could put one end of the towel in a reservoir (a bowl of water) and it would continue to wick water up onto the top and evaporate causing more of a temperature drop.

Comments

[KittyF]

Louis L'amour talked about an unglazed Terra cotta water vessel hung up under the eaves of the porch in the SW USA from which one would dipper out cool water.

I've always wanted to try that, but we live in PA.

[Javin007]

LOVE Lous L'amour. I've managed to get my hands on about 70% of his books.

[KittyF]

Oh yes, but I don't OWN that many, I prefer to only keep the best ones, so any Sackett stories, maybe Talons and a few treasures such as Down the Long Hills.

Now when it comes to reading them, I consider it a banner day when I find one that I've never read. it's been about two years since the last time I found one, and I was Quite surprised as well as delighted.

[Javin007]

My personal favorite is "The Haunted Mesa." I got started when I was like 9 when a great uncle got me started with an original print - since lost :( - of "A Man Called Noon." When he passed in '88 I was still a kid, and a new rabid fan. I was SOO upset. Even did one of my elementary school papers as a huge biography of his life. Now I'm 34 and I still snag any book I see that I don't already have (but he wrote a LOT of books, so inevitably, I end up with quite a few duplicates accidentally). Plus, with my horrible memory, I can just reread them every few years and it's like the first time! :D

[KittyF]

I liked the Haunted Mesa the first time, but after that the creepy spiritism got to me and I didn't like it after that. a man called Noon has to be right up there in the top five, cause who can resist a secret cottage with a secret passage? there was another with a secret passage set in the Lava beds of NM too. can't recall the name.

there was also a short story in one of the books about the last of the anesazi a young boy leading his family to follow the star.

I think I counted his books once and the fiction ones come to just under 200 I think. including the anthologies.

He was the last of the cowboys who wrote about what they knew. now the writers are writing about what they imagine which doesn't have the ring of authenticity in it.