5-26-12

9:00am

Got the garden watered early before it got hot.

Tomatoes are getting bigger thanks to the heat

and some have flowers on them.

Radishes and carrots are popping up all over

as well as beans, cucumbers and onions

I just planted.

10:00am

Took the kids to the pool this morning

til about noon.  It warmed up quick.

It was about 91 degrees around noon.

  

There was a couple bird's nest under the gazebo.

Father bird kept a watchful eye out 

sitting on the hanging flower planters.

The boys jumping into the pool.

Stopped in the maintenance shop so

the boys could change out of their wet clothes

because we were going to Walmart.

I wanted to show you all the pop that

the maintenance guys found the other day.

The guy going around filling the pop

machines at the pools threw out lots of

20 ounce bottles of pop.

We salvaged some.

There was so many they plugged in a fridge

in their golf cart garage to store them all!

Stopped in Walmart.  I got a couple

bags of topsoil for my flower tower planter.

I think they were $1.29 a bag.

Got a couple other things as well.

Once home we unloaded the truck.

I wanted to show you the dish sets

we found yesterday.

Now I'm working on trying to figure out

why our air conditioner in the truck isn't working too well.

You'd be amazed at how much money you can save

by doing a lot of vehicle maintenance yourself.

I google any problems we have with 

vehicles.

I'm thinking that the reason the ac compressor

is cycling on and off and only blowing

cold air out the rear vents is because

we don't have enough freon in the system.

We've already put in two cans.

I'm thinking it needs more to work 100%.

We have gauges.  And I think I read

it needs to be at the 55 mark 

on a 90 degree day like today.

Ours is reading at like 25.

Definately need to get this up and

running for our trip.

Cans of freon is cheapest at

Big Lots, Walmart and maybe Dollar General?

Small cans are $10.

If you go to an actual parts store

they run $15 to $16 for a small can.

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3:50pm

For about the last hour I have been working
on my flower tower planter.
Not as easy as it looks.

For starters I didn't have a small enough drill
bit to put holes in the 1/2 inch pvc pipe
that will go down the middle of the larger pipe
and use to water the flowers.
Instead I took a small screw and drilled
it straight through the pipe all the
way down making many holes.

Then of course out of two drills
and four batteries nothing is
charged to it's fullest putting me even further behind.

I measured the circumference of the larger
pipe divided it by four then drew lines
down the pvc pipe to mark
the four sides I want to make.
10 holes down each side. 
Then down each line I measured
and marked every 5 inches of where
I would drill the holes out.


This is as far as I got while drill batteries
are charging and I'm making supper
of tuna and noodles with alfredo sauce,
peas and carrots.

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10:10pm

 

 

 

Earlier this evening I decided to give the

truck bath.  It was filthy.  Tony helped.

Then he went and got two more cans

of freon to put into the truck.

So far we had only put in two.

I am happy to say that I was

right about what was wrong with it.

The air conditioner works really good now!

 

About 7:30 we headed to Tony's work

to let the kids swim once again

before closing the pools.

The pools were packed.

The one pool the kids swam in 

had 60+ people at it!  I counted!

I thought we would have problems

getting them to leave at 9:00pm.

 

At about 8:30pm Tony left the pool

to go check on another pool.

Me and the kids stayed.

I got brave when he was gone

and announced to everyone at 8:45pm

that the pool was closing in 15 minutes.

I was not sure if they would even understand

me because 90% of them were hispanics

having a memorial day party.

I never had to say anything again to them.

They were the nicest crowd!

They even cleaned up after their party

and helped put the chairs back around the pool

where they belonged.

By 9:00pm everyone was gone from the pool area

and Tony came back amazed that I managed

to get that many people out of the pool!

 

On the drive home I started to get a migraine.

I've had them on and off for many years.

It starts out with no pain and I start getting blurred vision.

Actually about the best way I can describe it

is this, have you ever seen a heat wave?

The waves of heat coming off pavement or a hot car?

That is how my vision is.

After that would come the migraine headache.

Well after years of suffering from migraines that

could last for days with severe pain

and having to try to sleep it off in a dark room

because any kind of light would aggravate it more,

I finally found a way to make it go away

within about an hour.

Since the first sign of my migraines was blurred

vision, as soon as I would get it I would

immediately take 2 ibuprofen or tylenol.

Within an hour the blurred vision would clear up

and I'd have a mild headache that didn't go

full blown into a migraine. 

It has worked every time for me.

I wish I had discovered this many years

ago instead of suffering for many days like I did.

 

 

Well it has been a long day y'all.

I'm tired and are ready for bed soon.

 

 

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