Good morning gals. Well, we had the ac guy come back out again yesterday because the compressor wouldn't come on and he changed out the capacitor and left but the house didn't cool off and it would stop. Well, Jack and I but the bullet and turned it off and left if off all night even though the temp was near 90 in the house. This morning it is about 85 out but we turned it on and it is working fine. It has a shutoff to keep it from burning up and the house was so hot yesterday because the ac didn't work all weekend that it just couldn't keep up and shut down. I am going to keep an eye on it and see how it doesn today, but I can already tell the difference this morning in the house.
Jack's plant all were complaining of the heat so they put them on 6-2 shift, which made Jack mad. He hates the early morning's anyway and having to get up at 4 now doesn't make it any better. He now has to go to bed around 8 to get 8 hours of sleep and how ridiculous is that! On top of that, we think he stress fractured his foot at work yesterday but since it is oji, they send them to a minor medical place. This dr told Jack with his knee they are given instructions to fix it and send them back to work, no time off, which wasn't the problem, but she didn't even haved it xrayed saying he couldn't have stress fractured it. How does she know without an xray? She put him in a boot and sent him back to work with advil!!! Told him to come back in a week if it still hurts and she will have it xrayed. He told her he can't wear the boot at work as he has to wear safety shoes but she was basically like, "not my problem." Royally oinked me off. He is in pain and limping this morning and says it hurts to put weight on it. We can't even take him to the ER or to the dr because if Tricare finds out about the oji they won't pay for anything we have done.
Gail: God will give you an extra crown in glory for you dilligence with your father and father in law. Truth be told, when the spouse goes the left partner usually gives up if they are elderly. I am sorry you can't make any headway with your dad, but the other one is certainly a character. Like you said, at least he has a positive attitude so he can dance again. Did you find any yarn??? I bought some great felting yarn in two colors a sold and a striped and am going to make duffer slippers for gifts. They are so cute and you can make them look like little ballet flats with embellishments and whatnot. I just have to adjust the sizes that are offered as the lady is German and uses metric sizes and European foot sizes. They must have smaller feet than we women here in the states!
Maggie: I feel for the kid, for sure, but like you, nothing is safe anymore and he should have kept his bike in the house. Jack had a beautiful brand new 10 speed stolen right off our porch and it was padlocked to the porch years ago when Jay was little. He bought it to ride to work at the base and it only lasted about a week. That hurt the pocketbook big time back then. My hair has thinned a lot too from meds and such and coloring it red hides the thinness. I have always has super fine hair anyway and as I got older thinned out a lot. It isn't perfect but except for a wig it is the best I have!
Jean: We are supposed to get to 96 today and 98 on Thur and Fri. The only thing good about that is warming up the pools. Used to be you went into a department store and were measured for bras, now you grab one off the rack and hope it fits, which it rarely does. Jack was looking on Google Earth at the Missouri and a good part of the interstate is parallel to the river so it is likely they will end up having to close it. I just hope it doesn't swell up the MS again as we are finally below flood stage.
Susan: Sounds like you had a lovely relaxing time. The problem with a new ac unit is $$$$$ You have to have them to replace it and we just don't and comfort or not, I am not taking on another bill by financing it. I am working very hard to get our finances in order for retirement, ie paying off everything I can and will suck it up over thousands of dollars of financing. I imagine in the next couple years we will have the money to let Jimmy replace our unit and we just have to keep our fingers crossed it will hold out I guess. I am a long way from clothing being too big, but I hope by the end of the year to fit into stuff I wore 6-7 years ago and if I am really lucky maybe the stuff I originally bought for the cruise a few years ago will fit me for next year, but not until the last minute I imagine. I have some really cute stuff, but if it doesn't fit then it will.
I gotta go gals and get some upstairs work done before it gets too hot. Have a lovely day and try and keep cool. We are having a country wide hot spell it looks like Faye