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sunset with power lines
sunset with power lines

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I don't get up to the roof as often as I once had.
We had converted from evaporative cooling to refrigerated a couple years ago.

Evaporative cooling was accomplished using a device on the roof called the 'swamp cooler,' that pulled air through wet pads, and circulated that air through the house.

Setting up the swamp cooler each year involved arcane rituals with plumbing supplies, small diameter tubing, lubricants, a variety of wrenches, and a screwdriver. Then there were dances around the swamp cooler, calling upon the evaporative gods, who were only satisfied through a dozen trips down, up, and down a ladder. The more trips down and up, the worthier one was in the eyes of the evaporative gods.

When finally deemed worthy, the swamp cooler would suddenly work properly, without any leaks in the tubing or the connections at each end. The float valve would fill the reservoir. The fan would blow without high pitched squealing.

New to Albuquerque in the late 1970s, and home ownership in the mid 1980s, I would think that I'd be done with the swamp cooler until the fall when it would be time to 'winterize' it. I would put the ladder back in the garage. Then something would go wrong and I'd have to bring it out, put it up against the house, and perform more evaporative rituals. Back into the garage the ladder would go. And back out it would come.

But I was saved by Jim Belshaw (then known as Jim Arnholz) who wrote a column in the ABQ Journal. He wrote at times the Dear Dr Swamp Cooler advice column, much like those 'advice to the lovelorn' columns. From Dr Swamp Cooler I learned the key to keeping one's swamp cooler working was to never take the ladder away from the house. It was perpetual homage to the evaporative gods.

I still keep the ladder against the house.

Happy Telegraph Tuesday.

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