Well, here I sit on my beautiful deck smoking a clove cigarette, drinking a wine with sprite zero, eating grapes from the fridge, listening to the sprinkler and wind chimes. It's about all you can do when the temp in the house is 94F. This is my second night with no A/C. When I arrived home at 7pm it was 98 and that's with all the windows open all day! Yesterday it was only 97 at 6:30 with all the windows shut, go figure! Not to to worry, the repair man will be here first thing but he didn't specify exactly what time 'first thing' was.
The insurance co. put me thru the ringer today negotiating the price of A/C repair when the outside temps have been in the 100's for nearly 60 days. I hate to say, but will admit, I don't sit out on my lovely deck nearly as much as I should. And what's with the smoking? Somehow, decks are meant for smoking. I normally only smoke when I'm around friends that smoke, usually on the porch cause nobody smokes inside their house anymore, but sitting in the breeze listening to the water and chimes just begs for a smoke, and wine.
The sun has finally gone down and a bright 3/4 moon is staring down at me. It's really rather idyllic. Last night I considered sleeping on the deck. Which reminds me, the only good thing about a drought, and we are in the worst drought in recorded history for this area, is that there aren't any mosquitoes and hardly any flies. Some mornings I see several wasps sipping the dew off the roof of my car. That's another thing, this morning when I got in my car to go to work, it felt cooler than my house! Residual from the a/c being on all the way home I'm sure.
Surprisingly, I did manage to sleep last night. Luckily my bed is right in front of a large window. Though I did consider gathering up all the dogs and going to Motel 6. Tonight should be better. Ross left his Igloo a/c. It consists of a marine Igloo, albeit a small one, with a fan unit that mounts on top. Just fill the Igloo with ice and plug the fan unit into a 12 volt plug and voila, a/c! It's a trucker thing so they don't have to idle the trucks all the time. I guess I'm gonna be brave and go in and set up my Igloo a/c and get some sleep so the repair man won't surprise me 'first thing.'
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