Daily Notes- July 12th

                                       

Old Blogger again today.  This photo is from A Way To Garden blog and there is a recipe for both kinds of pickles on that site today.  I am adding the picture because the pickles I make look exactly like the jars on the left.  Except....I use zucchini and yellow squash and no cucumbers.  Makes for a cruncher pickle.   I can share my recipe if you are interested.

Yesterday we installed the AC unit in the dining room/kitchen- a very large room with two story arched ceiling.  And---we dropped the unit out the window onto the ground.

I'll let you just picture that for a moment.

I made an emergency call to our daughter to come right over and husband towed the unit back into the house on a rolling cart.  He was all for trying again but I suggested we first see if it still worked. And the on/off panel had disconnected itself.  So he reattached it all, plugged it in and it went on and the air coming out of it was cool.

Then daughter showed up.  She really really wishes we had had a third child- a boy- a handy boy- who lived next door to us- or up over the garage.  Really Wishes For That.

After many, many biting our tongues moments- we managed to get husband to agree to do it our way. The unit is in.  It is cooling.  The house is feeling drier.  Less humid.  I tried giving daughter pie, cookies, baked beans etc etc.  She said she just wanted to go back to her house and take a shower. She had spent the day stacking fire wood for her employer.  Worst possible day to have an emergency parental unit phone call.

But the house is less MOIST and we had a comfortable evening.  One more unit to install. Smaller but I hope it doesn't fall out the window- the drop off at that spot is much higher and it has a slope so the unit could roll into the woods.

When things start to go South as we used to say-(to Hell if that suits you)...they just keep on going.......long after you have any patience or nerve for it.   That's how it feels here.

I spent Time in the Magic Attic packing a box for DebL and the Dye Works.  Post Office tomorrow.
And the tv guide said the Great Something Baking Show is on tonight on PBS.  Thank you!!!!