The sleep porch.....mostly a Southern thing, I think......a screened porch where you would sleep during the summer when it was just too hot inside. I never thought about it much, seen it in movies, pictured it from the pages of many book's story lines.......but never actually slept on one, until moving to Hawaii. Think our upstairs porch (not screened) is actually called a lanai here in Hawaii.....but I prefer to call it our sleep porch (or more aptly our napping porch!). We have no air conditioning at our house....but we do get great tradewinds; today it was a little stuffy so I headed for the "napping porch" with a good book in toe. I kicked back on the chaise, letting the cool breeze spill over me, and followed (envied) Elizabeth Gilbert as she ate her way through Italy .....sweet dreams indeed!!!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Sleep Porch
The sleep porch.....mostly a Southern thing, I think......a screened porch where you would sleep during the summer when it was just too hot inside. I never thought about it much, seen it in movies, pictured it from the pages of many book's story lines.......but never actually slept on one, until moving to Hawaii. Think our upstairs porch (not screened) is actually called a lanai here in Hawaii.....but I prefer to call it our sleep porch (or more aptly our napping porch!). We have no air conditioning at our house....but we do get great tradewinds; today it was a little stuffy so I headed for the "napping porch" with a good book in toe. I kicked back on the chaise, letting the cool breeze spill over me, and followed (envied) Elizabeth Gilbert as she ate her way through Italy .....sweet dreams indeed!!!
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oooh i wish i could do that!! here it never gets warm enough (and the mosquitoes are horrible...we don't have the screened-in porches here :)
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