How Exciting!

Sometimes life throws things at you just to see if you can handle it.  It's called Nancy's Luck.  Once in a blue moon, it's GOOD.  Most times, not so much, but it makes for good stories to tell I guess.

The low Wednesday night was 82.  The low last night was 82.  I see a pattern here.  If you're going to do anything at all, it better be in the early morning hours, at least that's what I've noticed the birds do.  Look here ... a female (I think) cardinal.  Isn't she a beauty?

After digging around in the drip line hole and not getting a fix, I showered and headed out to drop off my quilting machine.  In spite of their big mistake of scheduling it for MAY instead of JULY, I put on a happy face.

It's a 40 minute drive.  20 minutes in when it was 8:30 am and 102 degrees, my air conditioning quit.  Big sigh .. BIG!!  How exciting!!!  Just my luck ... I'm going to die of heat stroke before I even get there.  There's no opening the windows to cool off, so I hit the inside air only button.  By the time I got there I looked like a drowned rat.  

This is how big my machine is.  Mr. Grumpy unloaded it from the back seat while she-who-made-the-mistake took my information.  That's when "those" words came from Mr. Grumpy's mouth.  Where's the computer?  

You didn't TELL me to bring the computer ... you said bring the machine!  Don't YOU have a computer?  I'm looking at a VERY hot drive back because it's now 108 degrees in Green Valley, and you want me to drive ANOTHER round trip?  

Weirdly enough, when I started my truck up again after maybe 15 minutes, the air came back on.  I prayed all the way home.  I loaded up the computer, along with an ice chest and five bottles of water.  It was 113 in my truck when I headed back.  Surprisingly the AC came on and stayed on the entire trip.  That has been added to my next week appointment at the Repair Shop for an oil and fuel filter change. $$$$

As for the roof ... the second guy showed up with a completely different angle.  This is not him.  He was a young kid who mistakenly told me he used to be a car salesman in town.  Oh yeah ... an HONEST guy I'm sure.  

Here's how it works down here ... you call, they send out a guy to take lots of pictures ... he goes back to the business and in 3 or 4 days you'll receive something via email.  This company's angle is insurance.  They take all the pictures they need to prove the roof needs to be completely replaced.  I imagine if they do that, my insurance will triple, yes?  Gosh, how much more exciting can it get??

He told me the roof needed to be completely replaced.  I'm sure that's the truth from the car salesman, right?

I finally found the paperwork that shows this roof is 19 years old.  It's a 20 year roof, so I guess the car salesman is probably right.  There's going to be a BIG expense in my near future, especially when he showed me how he could lift up an entire row of shingles with one finger, in more than one spot.

Cooper did his best to make me feel better.  The ball is back in the game.  Not only did he catch it mid air, but he rolled it back and forth for an hour.  

How can you not smile at this face!!  Due to his lack of front teeth, it rolls crooked now, but that's okay!!

When dinnertime rolled around, I wasn't very motivated.  Honestly, when you are hot all day long, it takes it out of you.  Although electricity in Arizona is much cheaper than California, they have raised their prices along with everyone else, just because they can.

I grabbed that huge pork loin I had and cut it into steaks, putting most of it in the freezer.  I have to admit, this went down quite nicely.  

Not to be outdone by yesterday, THIS morning brought it's own kind of excitement.  I can hear you laughing.  I would laugh too if it wasn't me that had to fix this.  See this nice geyser in the early morning Arizona sun?  I knew when I heard it, that was NOT a good sound.

I took one look, turned the water off and walked away.  More of Nancy's Luck has arrived.  The entire center of the sprinkler head is gone.  Big sigh.  Yet another MAN job to be tackled.  How NOT so exciting!!