Sunday, August 15

We were up by 7 a.m. to get ready to leave camp. We were on the road by about 9 a.m., and arrived home around 11 a.m.

Getting Mother's cat into the canvas crate this morning proved even more difficult than getting her into it to travel to camp. She hissed and spit and arched her back, laid her ears back, and swatted at Hubbie. So he just left the crate facing open to the open cage the cat was in. After a while, the cat, unable to resist exploring the canvas crate, finally walked into it, and Hubbie quickly zipped it closed. This infuriated the cat, who tried her best to claw her way out. She also whined for a while on the trip home, but finally gave it up.

Back home, we once again discovered that our air conditioner wasn't working. Hubbie had to call the emergency number to get a repairman scheduled. He was told three others were in front of us, so it was about 7 p.m. before the repairman came. Problem? The motor needed replacing. Phooey...another high repair bill. But I truly hope this is the last of the problems.

Since the air conditioner was fixed so late in the evening, the house didn't have time to cool off before bedtime, so we spent another night in the camper.

Speaking of the camper, this trip Hubbie found that the awning isn't working. He can't lower it for some reason...it seems to be stuck at the top of one of the arms, which means we'll probably have to get a camper repair service to fix it. It's always something.

The trip was nice, and we enjoyed both evenings of entertainment, but we did not enjoy getting a phone call just before the "Annie" performance from Hubbie's aunt in Texas, who reported that two months ago, she fell and broke a hip. She spent those two months in the hospital, but is home now. That was disturbing enough, but even more disturbing was news that less than two weeks ago, her son also fell, and he died. He was a man in his fifties, and she suspected he died of a heart attack.

Tonight, then, Sis reported that a young woman she worked with was murdered by her boyfriend on Saturday. The boyfriend, who is now in jail, also once worked at the same store. A younger brother and an older sister of the murdered woman currently work there. Naturally, this shocking event has distressed Sis and the other employees of the store.