Tuesday, August 10

Well, last night around 9 p.m., I began getting uncomfortably warm. I grabbed a hand fan and vigorously fanned my face. Then I looked at the thermometer in our den and saw that it was 80 degrees, when we set our central air thermostat at 74 degrees. Hubbie checked the central air/heat unit outside the house and found that it was running, but nothing was happening indoors.



So we spent the night in the camper again. We got up early so I could get showered and ready for the day. Obviously, I skipped my exercises.



Hubbie called the repairman as soon as the shop opened at 8 a.m. He arrived pretty quickly and discovered that a capacitor needed to be replaced. He commented that this unusually hot summer has dealt a mighty blow to air conditioners, and he is working sixteen-hour days trying to keep up with his calls. The company has a crew of 40, and all of them are busy all the time right now.



At 9 a.m., I called the beauty shop to see if I could get a haircut appointment for Mother. She hasn't had a haircut in several months, because she was trying to let it grow out in the hope that it would look thicker. But Sunday, she announced that she was sick of it and wanted it cut again. And she wanted it cut today, because we had a date to visit with a couple of friends this afternoon. Also, she wants to look nice to go a couple of events we have scheduled this weekend.



I wasn't sure we could get an appointment for this morning, but as luck would have it, there was a cancellation, freeing one of the hair dressers. Everyone at the shop has been asking when Mother would return for a cut, so today after it was done, they cheered and applauded her. One of the ladies told her she looked twenty years younger. Mother laughed at that, but it lifted her spirits, anyway. She does look a whole lot better.



After we got back home, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the pharmacy, the bank, another pharmacy (to look for low-dose aspirin with no color), and to the WDCS. We were back home around 11:30.



While we were gone, Mother started a pan of spaghetti sauce simmering.



Mother relaxed after lunch, and I answered an e-mail letter from a friend and did other computer stuff. Just before 2 p.m., we went to our friend's house to visit with her and another lady who traveled to our town from her home a little over an hour away.

We chatted for a couple of hours, and our hostess served big hunks of spice cake with cream cheese icing, and glasses of iced tea as a refreshment. At 4 p.m., we said our goodbyes and returned home.

Just before 5 p.m., I went to an arts council meeting that lasted until around ten minutes after six. At home, we had spaghetti and cottage cheese for supper, and then I went to a 7 p.m. meeting of the community theater board. Got back home around 9 p.m. and watched TV with Hubbie until bedtime.

Long day.