AC Saga Round 3

Okay if you read my blog you know I've been fighting with my AC now for probably 2 months. We started out just not cooling. So I called AHS they sent out a guy he got it cooling but said you need a new coil. Okay fine. They ordered a new coil which took 3 weeks to come in. So a different guy comes out to put it in. He's in the attic for 5 hours banging on things. He comes down says sorry this one is also broken. Well Duh why wouldn't it be after 5 hours of banging on it. So after much thought we decide to replace the unit in the attic, $3000 for it. I took off last Wed to get this done. Bosworth came out and stayed all day putting it in. I'm sure they were hot up there. They replace the unit, redo the duct work and put in all new copper tubing. So it's in they leave and tell us it may cool it may not, your outside heat pump is not a good one and needs replacing. Okay how much is that $3500 more. So we decide to see what happens. Of course it didn't cool. By this time I'm amazed. So I call AHS again and they send out the most wonderful man. He goes to the outside unit says it has no Freon, fills it up and is gone in 15 minutes and guess what I have cool air again. So now I'm wondering was I just stupid and believed idiots. Hmmm could be. But I have cool air back, so no more sleeping on the living room floor. Hip Hip Hooray!

I've decided this last month has just been my down slid of the roller coaster.

Dale's Computer Died (Finally)
Major Storms for Dale to work so he's on edge
Car Wreck...hurt back and neck
No AC for over a month
Stupid AC Guys (Several of these)
Chan got sick
Lilly Rolled off the Bed (OUCH)
Andreas Laptop Died
Andrea got sick

I'm ready for the up side of the roller coaster.

AC

If you'd of been here at work you'd of heard me complaining and complaining about my AC unit. I'm sure everyone here is tired of it. About a month ago our AC quit cooling. So I called the home warranty people they sent out a repair man. He goes up and says your cooling unit is leaking. But he left it there and charged it so we could continue to have cool air. Then last week after waiting 3 weeks for the new part, another man came with the new part. I knew I was in trouble when I told him where the AC unit was and he came back down from the attic saying he couldn't find it. I was like holy crap. So he goes back up there and says Okay I'll replace the coil. He was up there for 5 hours banging on something. Then he comes down sorry the new part is also broken. Well no wonder he probably beat it to death. And not only would it not work but he couldn't put the old one back in so we could have cool air. So for a over a week no AC in the bedroom side of the house. We have no windows to open so it's just HOT HOT HOT HOT! Dale can stand it I can't. So he sleeps in the bed and the dogs and I sleep in the floor in the living room, because that side of the house has AC. We have 2 units. Which you'd think that would make your electric bill really high but it actually lowers it. After nearly 2 week of sleeping on the floor, I am by now grouchy,and tired. Tomorrow we're having a new unit put in the attic. During the entire thing I've called and argued and called and argued with the Warranty People and the AC people wont even answer their phone. Until you don't have AC you don't miss it........ The picture Dale took one morning of me Louie and Lila. My bed buddies their not crazy they sleep in the nice cool living room too. I just want my bed back and my AC FIXED!

New Lilly Pictures

Okay I finally have the new pictures we took at the Texas Tour with Lilly, Chantel and Thomas. They turned out so cute. We had the best time. Well at least I did. And I know Dale did because he got to see Lilly and he went riding with the old cars. So we both had a good time.

Andrea went to Chan's this last weekend and got to play with Lilly for a few days. She also went to the Taylor Swift concert. I know she had lots of fun. But she does love her sister and Lilly.

Texas Tour

Last weekend we took a road trip to Waxahachie Texas. We left at 8 Friday morning and finally arrived there at 4 pm. Dale's GPS sent us on a wild trip let me tell you. We went to Hillsboro then to Italy and Avalon Texas. New towns for sure. Then it tried to send us up someone's drive way. I think it was having a confused day. But we finally made it only to get lost in Waxahachie for an hour. I finally spotted an old car and we followed it to the hotel. That was a long time to be in a car driving. And yes I drove down there. Once we got there it was nice seeing all the cars. The oldest was a 1910 and the little man could tell you about every bolt it had. Saturday Chan and Thomas brought Lilly to see me so I stayed there and Dale went riding with the club. He had a blast and so did I!!!!!! I don't have the Lilly pictures yet but when I get them I'll post them. Thomas is slacking on his picture duty. But we really did have a blast. We went shopping, swimming and Lilly just rolled around and around on the bed. She can sit up on her own too. It was a great day!

Shades

Okay now I have to post these cute Lilly pictures. The song about me and my shades comes to mind. We're leaving Thursday or Friday for Waxachachie to a car deal but on Saturday I'm not going and I'll get to see the little cutie. I'm so ready for a Lilly day. I know I've been so lucky to live so close to my parents. They have gotten to go to everything of my kids and I hope to do the same with mine. I know I'm missing to much. I can hear her starting to talk on the phone and the pictures are just wonderful. But there is nothing like an in person visit. I want to hold her and kiss her and play with her. I guess not getting to see them everyday makes when I do so much more special. The one that has helped is having Andrea at home off and on. And yes she'll be up there with Chan in a couple of years. But maybe by then I'll be use to the idea.

Weekend

Last weekend started out good and hot. Saturday Dale's mom moved to Austin. To me it was sad but a good thing. She'll be staying with her daughter Donna. They are going to live in Harwood and have goats, chickens and donkey's. I guess I'm a City Girl because that just doesn't sound like fun to me. But I do wish them the best. Saturday evening Dale, Andrea and I went to our car club meeting which is always fun. It was so hot till we left the old cars at home. Of course everyone else brought theirs so then we were wishing we'd taken them. But with no air conditioning it sure gets hot. Now mine has air conditioning but it doesn't do as good as the new cars do. After the meeting everyone met at the Texas Burger for Ice Cream. That was fun too. I probably didn't need the ice cream but it sure was good. Sunday Andrea and I went to the show to see What Happens in Vegas. It was so funny. I hadn't been to one that funny in a long time. Worth seeing that's for sure. After the show I was headed to see my mom and dad. I was sitting at the corner of Cuthbert and Midland Drive waiting for the light to turn green. All the sudden BAM! a big truck behind me hit my car. Now I have to say this was totally unexpected. I called Dale and 911. We had to wait a long time for the police to get there. By the time he did get there I was so hot and just felt sick. I wanted it all to be over with so I could just go home. The damage to my Mustang wasn't that bad $500 so he got no ticket and at the time I felt fine just too hot. In about an hour my neck was hurting and that night my shoulder was killing me. Now I felt really stupid because they kept asking me your sure your okay and I said yes I'm fine. So now what. I went to the Dr of course they did x-rays which I'll find out tomorrow about them. But I'm sure he'll want to do some type of treatments. The guy that hit me wants to just pay for my car damage and has already called me about picking up a check for it. He didn't want to file against his insurance. I'm so not knowing what to do. I guess I'll wait until in the morning and decide.

Ms Lilly

I had to post these pictures. I'm starting to need a Lilly fix. We're suppose to go to Dallas in June and I hope we do. But if the storms keep coming we might not get too. In that case I may have to go with Andrea when she goes in June. Which that is a thought. Hmmm may have to do that if we don't get to go. She is on the verge of sitting up on her own and has found her toes. I'm missing so much. Chan only has another week to work and then she's out for the summer. How nice would that be to be off for 3 months. Maybe in 10 years I'll find out.

Ashley Furniture

This last Friday our car club and several others in Midland/Odessa held a Show and Shine at Ashley Furniture. Now this started as a competition between Amarillo, Lubbock and Midland/Odessa to see who could get the most cars at the area Ashley Furniture store. Amarillo made the commit that they would kick Midland/Odessa's Butt. Well here's the car count, 57 for Midland, 40 for Lubbock and a big fat ZERO for Amarillo. Yep Midland/Odessa won! I'm sure everyone in Midland has heard of the Hot Dog Man, he was there and I have to say his hot dogs are GREAT! We also had our very own Elvis there in Sam Austin and his pink Cadillac. That is some car. You have to see it to believe it. All in all it was a good day. Hot but a good day. Being in the car club we've met a lot of really nice people and we get to see lots of great old cars. Who ever knew that I'd love old cars......

Hooters

It's time to blog about the car show. Saturday we went to the Hooters Car show. It was lots of fun there was probably about 10 members from our club there. The day started out pretty good it was nice and cool but then the rain hit about 2 and it got cold believe it or not. There were some beautiful cars there. Three others just like my Chevelle, Red with black stripes. They were in the 1960's and mine's in the 70's. I really like my car it's so much fun to drive. I have to admit I do get nervous driving it around but it's fun. We have one member Sam Austin who is such a hoot. He loves Elvis and by the pictures I've added you can see his car is a tribute to Elvis. He dressed up like Elvis and it was just amazing the way people would look at him. We listened to Elvis all day long. I probably could sing about all his songs now. But we had lots of fun, even if we did get wet.

Mothers Day

Last weekend was Mother's Day and I hope all mom's who have worked so hard, working, washing, cleaning, cooking, to take care of their families had a wonderful day. Most of mine was spent planting 30 squares of grass in the back yard. Those little squares were heavy and so far they are doing nothing. At least I didn't spend that much for them. Chan sent me a card and Andrea told me Happy Mother's Day. It was nice having Andrea home, even if we don't see her that much. She stays in her room most of the time. I see her when she needs food or clothing. She's funny. She did get her hair cut and it's so cute, I love it. I did however refuse to cook on Mother's Day so we had Ajuua's Mexican food. I had to go to Lowe's 3 times, once to buy potting soil, once to go back and find my glasses that blew off in the wind, once to buy grass oh and a 4th time to buy more grass. Now if it will just grow.

This was Chan's first Mother's day and her and Lilly looked so pretty. Lilly was dedicated at church on Sunday.She was finally well just in time for Mothers Day!
Chan said she had to have a screaming fit about the time they were doing the prayer. Leave it to a kid to make everyone know they are there. But aren't they pretty together. It's really amazing how fast Lilly is growing. Everyday she's so different.

Lilly & the Doctors

Today was the big day for Ms. Lilly. They had their visit with the ear specialist first. She does have an ear canal and a ear drum back there, but it's hidden by bone. They can do surgery when she's about 7 or so but it's painful surgery. To me any surgery is painful. The ear specialist told them to consider just a new hearing aid that is coming out that goes under the skin behind the ear. Something to think about. Then they went on to the plastic surgeon. He said he could make her ear look better but not perfect. He said to also wait until she was about 6. He wants to see how it grows in a few years. He also told them to seek a second opinion on the surgery. He felt it could be done. So we'll wait and see. To me she's perfect as she is. A happy beautiful little girl.

My dad had his surgery yesterday and I hope he's feeling better. They had to slice on his head for about 5 hours getting sick cancer off. OUCH!

And Friday Ms. Mae will be home for the summer. And it's her 19th BIRTHDAY! Am I old or what.

Dallas Weekend

This last weekend we went to the Pate Swap meet. What's that you ask. It's a huge car swap meet. Dale has been saying how wonderful and big it is for years now. So a lot of the car club people go to work it and we just went to enjoy it. I guess enjoy is the work. It's at the Texas Motor Speedway back lot. Up by the building there was probably about 200 cars for sale. Nice cars all years and types. Yes we found one we liked but no Dale wouldn't let go of the money for it. But he did buy some new glass for the Chevelle. So now we're to get it painted, put new glass in and a new front bumper. It will look great once all this is done. But as we know Dale gets in no hurry to get it done so could be a couple of years you just never know. There were cars there like mine that I had to look at and compare to mine they were lots of money and needed lots of work. Anyway the swap meet part of the deal was on the other side of the road from the building. It was huge row after row of precious junk that was to come someone else's percious junk. I've never in my life seen so much JUNK! Car parts, doors, hats, shirts, trailers, bird houses, cars, trucks, motor homes it just goes on and on. I walked until I couldn't walk anymore.

Now of course the best part of the weekend was getting to see Chantel, Thomas and of course Ms. Lilly. She was so funny and had changed so much in a month. Not much longer and she'll be sitting up on her own. I hated to see them leave that afternoon but it was so much fun getting to see them even if it was just for a little while. She was smiling and cooing at me. Of course she loved her mom and dad the best. And I think they liked her a little.

Andrea had her sorority party over the weekend and the pictures she sent were just amazing. She's gotten so beautiful. Her hair was up and looked so nice and the dress was just a killer. College for the year is winding down and she'll be home on her birthday. She'll be 19. Now that's very hard to believe. Just seems like yesterday I had her and she had no hair. Now look at her. So Beautiful.

Ms. Lilly

Some how I missed these adorable pictures last week. I just had to share them. The blue bonnets are in bloom and Ms. Lilly is a flower amongest them that demands lots of attention. I can't wait too see her again. Last time she went to the Doctor she was a heavy weight of 13 lbs 9 oz and was 24 inches long. How fast she is growing. I hate it that I'm missing so much but I'll sure enjoy seeing her when I can.

I finally got these pictures to upload of my yard. It's still early but it's looking up.

Squirrel it's a Squirrel

Today at lunch I was in the back yard with the dogs and Louie found a squirrel. Was the chase on then. Of course the squirrel out ran him and then they had a stand off at the tree. The squirrel was having a jolly time going from one pecan tree to the other while the dog raced around the flower bed at the bottom of the trees. He probably thought stupid dog. I always tell everyone I have huge back yard so I took some pictures to show. The yard is finally greening up and the flowers are blooming. I also took some of the front porch area, it's finally looking up too. What it only took me 10 years to get it that way.......

Lila & the Birds

Last night Dale left the water on and the yard was like a pond. I don't know if you've ever seen those big black grackle birds but I bet there was 10 of them in the yard drinking water and taking baths. I tried to get the dogs to chase them but they looked at me like I was crazy. So I gave up. Then later I went to turn the water off and there's more birds. So I told Lila get that bird. She looked at the bird then looked at me and then slowly took a step or two towards it. Then she stopped and had her back perfectly straight head down and tail pointed out straight, then she lifted her front paw. It was so cute and I was amazed that she was doing that. Then she took another step did the same thing. By now I'm trying not to laugh. After the last step off she went like shot of course the bird flew off but it was great watching her. I have a bird dog in disguise. Louie just stood there and looked at me and then at her like huh.....My dogs are such fun.

Lilly & Lila

Last night Dog #1 and Dog #2 did the front porch escape again. So far we have been lucky and they have stayed in the yard. I hope I stay lucky.....

And I have to tell you today at lunch Lila scared me to death. I had gone outside with them it was such a nice day out. They were dogging around. I went back into the house I was sitting in my chair and in they came. She laid down in front of and started acting funny like something was caught in her mouth. I was fixing to reach in there and find out what the problem was and she spit out a pin. I've been sewing and I guess she got one and was trying to eat it! Lucky for me again that could have been a real bad thing.

Now for some fun news here's a new picture of Ms. Lilly and the blue bonnets isn't she a cutie and much prettier than the flowers.

Flowers

At lunch today I had to get my camera out and take some pictures of the beautiful flowers in my back yard. We found out yesterday that the pump is out on the well so I hope they stay pretty until we can get it fixed, which should be this weekend. The well guy said could be your out of water but I'm hoping it's the pump. As you can see the dogs had to get in on the action.

Garden Time

I think we tried to kill ourselvers over the weekend. But the flower beds are all clean and pretty and the garden is in. When it starts growing I'll post some pictures. We have a huge back yard and it was a job. When we moved into this house we put flower beds on each side of it and I think now that was a mistake. We have no front yard so the back is our place to be. Louie and Lila helped us out in the garden. I think Louie got yelled at several times. Dale would dig and Louie would have his nose right there in the hole. But so far they haven't dug up any plants. I'm sure they will be in great trouble if they do. Louie has decided Grubs are a great treat....All I can say is yew.....................yuck................I guess if he finds them all then we wont have to put anything down for them?????

I have also redone the front patio area and it looks pretty good. Andrea will be home this weekend and we'll see what she thinks. I need more roses though, I just love miniture roses.

Chan, Thomas and Lilly made a visit to the Gardens in Dallas and I think Lilly is prettiest flower of them all. Next week is her big Doctor visit. I know we're all anxious as to what they find. But it wont be until May 6 until we get the answers.
Whatever the answer is it wont make any of us any difference, because she's beautiful as she is.

Quite Evening

Yesterday for supper Dale and I went to eat at Camabra's I have to say they have the best fajita's in town. On the way home he got a call and had to go to an accident at Snyder and he ended up spending the night there. Boy was the house quiet and then the dogs went to sleep to it was really quiet. I called Andrea and bothered her but she was at a meeting so then I called Chan. They were feeding Lilly so we talked for a while and then Lilly started making all kinds of noises at me. It was so cute. I talked to them for a while and then watched CSI and Without a Trace, finally new shows to watch. The dogs and I went to bed about 10 and then Louie sits on the bed looks down the hall and barks. I hate it when he does that, so I had to go check out the house of course nothing was there but me and the dogs. I read a while and watched the news and then we all finally went to sleep. Now I bought a King size bed so there would be enough room for me, Dale and the dogs, they are not small dogs. I ended up in the middle of the bed with a dog on each side. I was like a hot dog in the bun. But they were good company for me, and at least this time no mud in the bed.