Tuesday and Air Conditioning Problems

I slept well again last night and was only up once in the night and got right back to sleep until 5:00AM or so.

I managed to keep the air conditioning going as much as I needed it throughout the night. It was 79 degrees in the apartment when I got back from Bartlesville. Just like the day before when it was 80 degrees. I put the thermostat on "on" to get it going and then after awhile I put it back on "auto" and it stayed going the rest of the night just fine. I could hear it well from the den so I kept track of it by staying in the den all evening..

My Kindle was charging so I couldn't read my book. When I got up that one time in the night it was fully charged so I took it off the charger. I can read today. And since it didn't rain I will water the plants again morning and afternoon

I will go vote first thing this morning and then stay home here the rest of the day. I don't want to miss the air conditioner guy.

Now I will go watch for the weather report and check to see if the cats are out there this morning for their breakfast. 

Both cats were out there for breakfast. I fed them and the are finished and I need to get the cat food in the garage.

It took a couple of 8's before I was able to get the weather forecast. Today is to be 102 degrees and mostly sunny, Wednesday will also be 102 degrees and partly cloudy,  Thursday will be 98 degrees partly cloudy, Friday is to be 98 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday will be 100 and mostly sunny, Sunday will be 99 degrees and partly cloudy and Monday will be 100 degrees and partly cloudy. Another terribly hot week with no rain. That's August for us.

I went as soon as the polls opened and voted. I wanted to be home when the air conditioning man came.

The air conditioning man got here about 11:15AM and worked on checking out the thermostat and sure enough, that's what it was. He put a new thermostat in and turned it on and that was the problem. He thought it might just be the batteries but he put new batteries in it first and it still didn't work so he brought in  new thermostat and that worked. It was 79 degrees in here and it will take about 30 minutes to get it down to 77 for  daytime. I keep it a little cooler at night...down to 75 and I use the new ceiling fan then too. But I am so glad he got here before it really gets hot this afternoon.

I texted with Joanne Stoner this afternoon and she is in the process of moving to Independence, Kansas, to be near her son and daughter-in-law. She will live in the Booth residences at 201 West Main, Apt.2 B. The Stoner kids ( her son and daughter-in-law and grand kids ) will be moving nearby her in the house they have redone in Independence. I imagine she will go to church with them at the Methodist Church since she doesn't drive much anymore. I imagine she could drive in Independence, Kansas, since it's just a small community unlike Independence, Missouri. But she may not. She's my age but a lot of folks my age no longer drive.

I have been reading this afternoon and finished my latest book.

Then I went to the market and bought some cupcakes for Bunco tomorrow afternoon at the senior center. It's 6:13PM now and I will plan to go to take my bath at 7:00PM. and put on my pajamas and robe. I may start another book after that. I intend to go to bed around 9:00PM again this evening.

 

Monday and A Trip to see Nancy

I slept well last night after I got the air conditioner working. It appears to be working now. Stephen is going to try to have someone come check out the thermostat tomorrow. He wanted to do it today but I knew how disappointed Nancy would be if I didn't make it down to see her. I had promised her we would come up to Caney for lunch at Eggbert's here where she could see people she knew. I will be gone early Wednesday too but will get my hair done at 9:00AM and then get right back home afterward. He will see when the air conditioning man can come. Right now it is working fine and the apartment is cool but who knows how long that will be the case. I really think it is the thermostat but of course, I don't know for sure. It just seems odd that I can turn it off and then back on and it will work again.

I stripped my bed and remade it and am washing the sheets and towels now and my pajamas and underwear. They are all in the dryer now. 

It's 6:40AM now and I have just been eating my breakfast here in the den. I will need to get milk today. I finished what I had on hand today.

It's August 1st so this is going to be another scorcher month.

Both cats were out there this morning for their breakfast. I took it out to them and they are eating hungrily.  And when I turned on the TV, the weather forecast was just coming on. I rushed in the den to get the phone to take a photo of it. 

Today is forecast to be 99 degrees and sunny. Tuesday will be 101 degrees and sunny, Wednesday will be 103 degrees and Mostly sunny, Thursday will be 96 degrees and partly cloudy, Friday will be 99 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday will be 98 degrees and mostly sunny, Sunday will be 99 degrees and partly cloudy.  That's the weather forecast for the next week. In other words, no rain and hot, hot, hot. Definitely August!

The cats have eaten and are gone now. I will get that food in the garage before the ants find it. 

I got the laundry out of the dryer, folded it and put it away for another week and it's only 7:27AM.

It's 8:03AM now and I have just watered the flowerbeds again.   There no rain in the forecast this week and I will probably have to water morning and night again. I went out this morning and picked up the leaves from my neighbor to the south's leaves from his tree. I can always use the bending exercise.

If the yard dries this week, I will have it mowed.

More even later.... I watered all the flowers before I left. 

I didn't leave to see Nancy until 11;00AM. I had been reading and lost track of time. I got there at 11:30AM and had her dress so we could go to Caney and have lunch at Eggbert's there and then take a drive around town. She came to my apartment and we visited for awhile and then I took her back to assisted living  about 4:00PM.We had a nice visit and a nice drive. I bought gas at Miller Brothers there. It was $3.85 a gallon.

It's 5:41PM now. I am tired but I got a lot done today. Nancy was very happy to see me and she even saw people she knew at Eggbert's. After I left her I went to wash my car at Mr. Kleen in Bartlesville and then I vacuumed it out.  It's the best car wash around and they have a dozen vacuums so you can get it really clean.

I will vote tomorrow in the primary. I think it's at City Hall.

I checked over my check book. I will be glad when Wednesday the 10th is here. That's when I get my social security. I have bills to pay again. Luckily most of them are scheduled for later in the month.

I need to go get some milk. I am nearly out and don't have enough for breakfast tomorrow. 

So more later... 

I went to the market and bought milk and water. One of the boys there checking said he was a science buff and he tested the Caney water and found it had a lot of lead in it. I am glad I only drink bottled water and always have since I moved to Caney. I get a report from the city of Caney every year telling me there are two "chemicals" left in Caney water and so I have never drunk it. If one of the chemicals is lead, I am glad I don't drink it and never have.  

The air conditioning has been erratic today. I tried turning it off and on like yesterday but that didn't work when I tried it today. So I moved it off "auto" and on to "on" and it ran fine that way. Stephen said it might freeze up that way though so I put it back on "auto" and it started working again..  It's very erratic. But for now it's working.

I will be home all day tomorrow just in case the air conditioning man can make it.

The primary is tomorrow and I will vote at city hall if that is where they are holding it this time. I will go early so I can get back just in case the air conditioning man is available tomorrow.  I hope he calls me before he comes just in case there is a line to vote. I can always slip out of the line and go home if he is available.

It's 7:50PM now and I will take my bath and put my pajamas on and be prepared to go to bed at 9:00PM or so, My Kindle is charging again so I can't read again until it's charged.

Sunday and Church

I slept well last night and was up at 5:30AM. I have made my bed and got myself ready for the day. As usual, I am having my breakfast here in the den. It's 6:30AM now...a little later than usual. I haven't checked the weather outside yet but the sidewalk is dry so I am assuming it didn't rain at all last night. I did get up in the night once and took my meds and then went right back to sleep without a problem.

Scruff came last evening for supper but I never did see Blondie. I haven't been in the living room yet to turn on the TV for the weather or check on the cats.

I will do that now and get back to this afterward. 

Both cats were out there for their breakfast this morning. First it was just  Scruff but by the time I got the cat food ready and out there, Blondie came over too. They appear to be finished now. Blondie is still laying on the doormat out there but Scruff has gone to her usual resting place under the hedge.

I am hoping they will run the weather forecast now that it's 6:48AM. 

Sure enough.they did.

Today's forecast is 91 degrees with clouds in the AM but I see no rain in the forecast now. Monday is to be 97 degrees and sunny, Tuesday 101 degrees and sunny, Wednesday 102 degrees and mostly sunny, Thursday 96 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Friday is to be 95 degrees and mostly sunny and Saturday 97 degrees and mostly sunny. It looks like they took most of the rain out of the forecast this week. 

The cats are gone now, They came back to the bowl before they finished, ate some more and then left.

More later... I want to get that cat food back in the garage and cover it before the ants find it.

I have been watching the Good Morning America this morning. Another police death of a black woman. They arrested her and she insisted she had had nothing to drink. But they handcuffed her and put her in the back seat of the police car. They forgot to close the back seat passenger side door. When they pulled away from the curb, she fell out of the patrol car and had a serious head injury. She died at the hospital. The police said she jumped out of the vehicle but they later learned that was just a lie to try to cover up their neglect. What a mess! Always something.... and it's always a black person.

More later....

It's 10:00AM now and I am leaving for church.I want to get there early enough to do  a little  cleaning. 

Be back after lunch after church....

Rick and Carmen were at church today and we had a pretty good sized congregation for us.The only ones that were not there were Billie Jo,  Gene, and Karan. Karan was having her entire family this week because her 80th birthday was Wednesday. They were all celebrating it.They were going to leave today but she didn't know what time and she didn't want to rush them off. I will write all three and send them a letter and a bulletin.

Melissa had a very good sermon.

Phyllis and Carmen and Rick and I went to "Just Us" for lunch after church. We had a good visit. Afterward I took Phyllis back to church to get her car and then came on back home myself.

It's 2:18PM now. I will get those letters out.

I got the letters out on the mailbox and I put copies of the bulletin in them.

Then I went out and watered the flower beds and even picked up the leaves in my back yard from the tree in the back yard next door to the south. It's really too hot to do that.. as I found out when I came back in. I opened a bottle of water and drank from it..But I need to drink some more. I don't know what the temperature is out there but it is too hot to be out there for any time at all. According to my phone it is 89 degrees out there.

I guess I will go read and cool down. 

More later..

I got busy reading my latest book and lost track of the time. I missed most of the Mission Center worship service. It was over half finished before I joined the group. It's 6:39PM now. It looked like a very good service no more then I saw.

I put the book away and came in and logged on to Zoom  but I was way too late.

In a little bit I will take my bath and put my pajamas and robe on and get back to it. I started to take my bath and realized the air conditioner was not working. I looked at the temperature and it is 81 degrees in here. I turned the air down even lower and nothing happened. I went out side to check it and it was not running. I came back in and turned it off and then switched it back on and eventually it came on. I don't know if it is blowing cool air though.  I climbed up on the bed and put my hand over the cooling vent in the ceiling. It appears to be blowing cool air now but it doesn't feel like cold air yet.

No, it just went off again.I don't know whether it's the thermostat or the air conditioner itself.

I turned off again and then on again at the thermostat and it's working again..I don't know how long it will work though before it goes off again.

I had planned to go to bed at 9:00PM or so but I will give it some time and see if it continues to work.

It went off again and I turned the thermostat off and on again and it started again. It's down to 79 degrees in here now.

The air conditioner has stopped working several times and I turn the thermostat off and on and it begins to work again. That has happened at least three times. It's still working now but I have no idea how long it will work. I guess I will play it by ear. I have texted Stephen about it but haven't heard back from him yet. They may be out for the evening.

So far..so good, It's still working. I guess I will go take my bath now. It is 8:33PM.

Stephen called me and asked me about the air conditioning. I told him I thought he was out for the night with his wife. He had been mowing the yard and didn't see my texts. So far the air is still working. It finally went off to 75 degrees. I hope it will continue to run if gets hot again.

I went in the living room and read until 10:45PM and then I was ready to go to bed .

 

Saturday and Rain

I  slept well last night and was up at my usual 5:00AM. It is 6:24AM now and I am dressed and ready for the day, It rained last night because the sidewalks are wet. I don't know how much rain we got because I evidently slept right through it.  It doesn't appear to be raining now.  I am here in the den having my breakfast.

I will go  turn on the TV and check on the cats now. I will get back to this in a little while. I checked on the cats and they were not out there. The street shows we had a little rain though not much. I missed the weather forecast but will get back in there before 6:38AM when the weather may be shown.

I finally reached "the weather on the 8's" and sure enough, we are forecast for rain today and tomorrow. It will be 80 degrees today with that rain, 91 degrees tomorrow with AM thunderstorms, Monday will be 97 degrees mostly sunny weather. Tuesday is to be back to 100 degrees and sunny, Wednesday is to be 101 degrees and mostly sunny, Thursday is to be 100 degrees and mostly sunny, Friday is to be 100 degrees and mostly sunny. That's the week ahead. Back to 100 degree weather and, of course, we will be into August by that time. 

Still no cats out there..... and it isn't raining right now. It's 7:01AM now.

And I balanced my checkbook again. Thank goodness!! And it's raining again! Thank goodness even more!!

I have been watching the Saturday CBS news. I much prefer the weekend CBS news and evening CBS news. I don't care for the morning CBS news during the week. After that I prefer Good Morning America on Saturdays. I don't care for the local channel 6 news either. I guess I prefer network news. So much for my news preferences...:)

I still have not seen any of the cats.. but of course, it's raining again.

I wrote the August rent check and took it over to Stephen's apartment. It's not due until the 1st but I wanted to get it paid before I spent it inadvertently.

It continues to rain here..thank goodness. I see the rain is running over the guttering. The guttering must be full of leaves. It's sure not draining through the downspout.

More even later.. .It's 8:11AM now.

I read until about 11:00AM and then I went to the Caney Market and bought bread and juice. I was completely out of bread and nearly out of juice. It is       still raining so I took my umbrella. It was awkward balancing that while carrying two sacks of  groceries. I tried to call Denise, my niece, to see if she would like have lunch at Coffeyville's Eggbert's again but she was not home  I just decided to fix a TV dinner here at home. It is still raining although not hard....but steady.. and has all morning. I will definitely not have to water today.

I will just eat a frozen meal and then get back to my book on the Kindle.

Denise finally called me and I told her I couldn't reach her earlier. She says she often just doesn't hear her phone when she isn't in the same room. She had already eaten earlier because she had had an early breakfast. She took a rain- check. We will do it another day.

So more even more later... 

I got back to my book and finished it. I think for a change, I will do a picture puzzle again. I have plenty of them that Carol sent to me and one or two that I got at the senior center.

I don't know that I have ever had to give up on a jigsaw puzzle before, But this one was impossible. I took out the border first and as usual I brought the picture of what t was supposed to look like and separated out the colors and then began to put the border together. None of the border pieces fit together nicely and no matter which ones I tried to fit together, none of them did. After two hours, I finally just gave up and put it away. I was very frustrated with it. I will just download another book and go back to reading. It's 4:34PM now and I will just wait  until 5:30PM and catch the CBS evening news.

I ended up just having a TV dinner and that filled me up.  And the rain has stopped now. The sun is not out yet but it's overcast out there.

More even later..

I have been watching a TV show I had recorded. It's 6:35PM now and I will soon take my bath and put my pajamas on and perhaps read again until my bedtime at 9:00PM. I downloaded two new books on my Kindle.

How about that! Scruff finally came this evening and evidently was very hungry! She ate quite a bit very fast and then disappeared again. I brought the food in the garage before the ants found it. 

It's 8:35PM and I am tired and think I will just go on to bed.I haven't done very much of anything today but I am already tired so I will just go on to bed. 

 

Friday and No Particular Plan.

I had a hard time sleeping last night and finally just got up in the middle of the night and worked on the computer to get the bulletin ready for Leslie to print off for my August 21st sermon. There was no more sleeping. I will get dressed shortly and get myself ready for the day.

I am hoping for more rain today. We certainly need it.

More later..after I'm dressed.

I'm dressed now and ready for the day. I don't really have a plan for today. The apartment is clean and the weather is cooler. If it doesn't rain today I will have to water the flowerbeds and hanging plants again. 

Both cats came for their breakfast this morning but Blondie just ate a little and left. Scruff stayed a little longer and ate but now she is gone too. I imagine she is under the hedge waiting to eat some more when she is ready to do it.

I caught the weather easily this morning.Today is to be 85 degrees and rain, Saturday 79 degrees and rain, Sunday 91 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Monday 94 degrees and mostly sunny, Tuesday 99 degrees and sunny, Wednesday will be 99 degrees and sunny Thursday 99 degrees and mostly sunny.  So it will be back to the heat after the next three days. Drat! Well.. we still have all of August to go before it begins to be more moderate.

I have been reading all afternoon and didn't even eat lunch but I finished my book and started another. It is 4:06PM now. In a little while I will turn on the CBS evening news. That comes on at 5:30PM.

More even later...   

I am having another peanut butter and jelly sandwich for supper. I seem to be making a habit of peanut and butter and jelly sandwiches lately. That's alright. I like them.  

It's 5:17PM now and the CBS evening news will be on at 5:30PM. Then at 6:00PM, I will take my bath and read some more until bedtime at 9:00PM or so..

 

 

Thursday and Apartment Cleaning

I didn't sleep quite as well last night. I don't know why. I didn't go to bed as late as I have been so maybe that has something to do with it. I don't believe it rained last night either. It was forecast for this morning. When it gets light it will be interesting to check that out. 

I have just eaten my breakfast although I was out of breakfast bars and had only oatmeal and am working on my coffee. The laptop computer was frozen this morning and I had to do a cold reboot to get it back up too. I started the blog on the desktop computer. It is 6:16AM and I will go check out the cats and see if they are out there for breakfast.

So more later... 

Well, it has been raining this morning. It doesn't appear  to be raining now though. The cats are not out there yet...maybe because of the rain. When I turned on the TV and to the weather channel,"the weather on the 8's" had just come on and so I grabbed my phone and caught a picture of it. 

Today is supposed to be 92 degrees and AM thunderstorms. Friday is forecast for 82 degrees and thunderstorms and Saturday 82 degrees and thunderstorms, and Sunday 88 degrees and AM thunderstorms.Monday is forecast for 95 degrees and partly cloudy,Tuesday the forecast is for  98 degrees and sunny and Wednesday 101 degrees and mostly sunny. It doesn't appear the cooler weather (if you can call it that) will last long.

I went ahead and wrote the August rent check. I will get it to Stephen when I next see him. 

It is nearly 7:00AM now. It still is not raining but it has been. The sidewalks are wet but the cats are not out there yet. It's only 77 degrees out there this morning. Nice morning...but I wish it would rain again. We sure need it. 

More later... 

Dean wants to read the book I just finished called "Lincoln Street". The author is from Coffeyville and grew up there. His name is Don Burgess. He went on to become a twice Pulitzer Prize winning author. I will send it to him when the post office opens. Burgess lives in Texas now. 

I got the book to Dean in the mail. Then I went out to Dollar General and bought breakfast bars and Kleenex. 

Scott called and visited with me for a long while. I finally had to get off the phone and recharge it.

I got the mopping done earlier and I just now got everything  back to where it belongs after that. Now I need to begin my vacuuming. So once again, I will get back to this after I get the bedroom and hall and den vacuumed. I always take a break after that much is finished.

O.K. I got the bedroom and den and hall vacuumed and all I need to do now is the living room and dining room. I will rest awhile now and finish after I get my  breath again. 

I always have to move the chairs out of the dining room and into the living room and kitchen to vacuum the dining room. I really am not supposed to lift those chairs they are so heavy. But I can't vacuum there without getting them out of the way so I just bite the bullet and do it anyhow. If my surgeon knew, she would have a fit.

The cats never came for a meal. It has drizzled off and on all morning. I think it's stopped now. But it is forecast for the next three days. We need it badly. Our yards are all mostly yellow and the ground in the back is cracked...especially near the apartment and the fence. It's 10:25AM now 

So More Later...

I finished my vacuuming and it's 11:15AM now and I am having my lunch. Instead of eating out, I will have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Peanut butter has lots of protein in it. The jelly is sparse so not a lot of calories either.  The only thing a sandwich doesn't have is veggies or fruit but I take a multivitamin every day so I am making up for some of that. I could not cook for one. I don't like the idea of eating the same thing for a week like Karan does. That's why I eat out a couple of times a week. Once is usually at Sonic where I get their kids Wacky Pack on Wednesday's for $2.18. That's two chicken strips and tater tots and a tiny Coke. It fills me up.

I got my mail and received the shade for my visor to keep the sun out of my eyes when I drive early mornings.I read their directions several times but never did come to understand how to install it. Finally I called  Leslie to see if she was home and if I could come out there and see if it would make sense to her. The pictures to the directions were too dark to make out. Finally she googled it on her phone and a man on u-tube showed how to do it. She went out to my car and put it right on. The only problem is it is too high to do any good for me at  5ft. 3 1/2 in. tall. It was even too tall for Leslie who is probably 5 ft.7in. tall. Maybe John can use it. He is 6 ft.2 in. tall. I will offer it to him or Kelly who is even taller.

It's 5:02PM now and the news will be on in almost 30 minutes. 

The cats never did show up today. I hope they are both all right.

I heard on NPR that thousands of people have stopped watching the news and the don't know why. I know why. They are sick and tired of eight commercials every few minutes at commercial breaks. Most of those commercials are for pharmaceuticals and we are all appalled at the cost of our meds. When I was working in Radio selling radio commercials back in the 80's, each thirty second ad on TV was $275.  And that was back in the 80's. Imagine what those companies are paying now. And guess who is actually paying for them....we are. ...at our pharmacies.

At 6:25PM I will take my bath and put my pajamas on and read until 9:00PM when I plan to go to bed. I am very tired this evening.

More Later...

 

Wednesday and Game Day at the Senior Center

I slept well again last night and was up at 5:00AM.I made my bed and got myself ready for the day. I will get my hair done at 9:00AM this morning and then go Wal Mart and get three groceries I can't get at the Caney Market and then to the library to take their book back and to read until time for game day at the senior center at 1:00 PM.

It's 6:00AM now and the cats may be out there waiting for their breakfast. I will go check in a little while and also turn on the TV and watch for "the weather on the 8's". 

I will get back to this in a little while.

More later.... 

Both cats were out there waiting for their breakfast so I took their food out to them. Blondie didn't eat very much and was gone. I imagine he eats at home and just uses my cat food for dessert...or to spite Scruff. She ate more but is gone to lie under hedge where it is cooler now. If I take it in, she will come back out to eat more.  I hope the ants don't find it soon.

The weather forecast didn't run at 6:28 so I will need to wait to try to get it again at 6:38AM. It didn't run on 6:28AM either. I will have to wait and see is it comes on at 6:48AM. 

I caught it this time. Today's forecast is to be 98 degrees and partly cloudy, Thursday's is to be 92 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Friday's is to be 82 degrees and thunderstorms, Saturday's is to be 80 degrees and scattered thunderstorms, Sunday's is to be 90 degrees and AM thunderstorms, Monday's is to be 95 degrees and partly cloudy, 99 degrees and partly cloudy.

It sounds like we will finally get some rain this week....starting tomorrow.

I just watered both flowerbeds and the two hanging plants too. It's 82 degrees now at 7:11AM. 

I left at 8:15AM for the beauty shop. I stopped first at Sonic and bought a cherry limeade slush. It was plenty hot out. Then I went to my appointment with Toni. 

From the beauty shop  I went out to Walmart and bought the three things I needed and could not get at the Caney Market.

I need to go out to the Dollar Dollar General store here and get breakfast bars. I ate the last one I had this morning before I had my oatmeal. And that was the last of my oatmeal at breakfast this morning. I bought the Oatmeal Variety Pack at Walmart along with my facial cleanser.

I killed some time looking around in the two antique malls. About 12:30, I went to the Senior Center and read where it was cool until 1:00PM and game day started. We had a good time. There were four of us. Karan won all three games. This was her 80th birthday. After that, I came on back home.

More later.... 

It's 6:47PM and I am going to take my bath. Then I may read some more until 9:00PM or so.