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Thursday, August 28, 2008

evening

Mom & Dad to the rescue…again

Yay, the a/c guys are on their way out with a new a/c unit to install.  We won’t die of heatstroke after all.  I will never take cold air on a hot, hot, hot day for granted again.  24 hours of this has royally sucked.  We’re stressed, the pets are stressed and confused, we’re worried about the pets.  We have fans set up all over the house to attempt to keep it from getting past, oh, 90+ degrees inside, but half the cats are afraid of the fans.  Carlo has decided that he’s never leaving the master bedroom again - there are some scary whirring monsters outside of the bedroom door and he wants no part of them, thank you very much.  We slept for a few hours with the bedroom door mostly shut to try to keep as much cool air in as possible, but to allow small visitors to come & go as well.  Let’s just say that many of them came in and stayed, and were extra well-behaved.  Perhaps they were worried we’d toss them in the tv room, where it was about 95 degrees even with the windows open.  I’m so happy that we bought the portable a/c unit last year.  Without it, we would’ve probably had to take some of the pets to the vet’s office for boarding because they weren’t handling the heat very well.  We have some elderly cats & dogs, not to mention two people who don’t handle heat well anymore thanks to the Fibro.  We could’ve all slept in a big kennel.