This is the temperature right now... about 12:40 pm Saturday afternoon. It is not as hot as it has been for the past 4 days but it is definately HOT ENOUGH especially since we have NO air conditioning!
Oh, did I mention we are here in St. George, sweating it out! Yesterday the high was 107! Yikes! But that was before the a/c unit decided to give out. Seriously, what were we thinking... coming down to St. Geroge for the 24th of July/Pioneer Day holiday?!?
Now let me explain. Since 1983 we have been coming here on as regualar a basis as we can get away with. My folks bought a condo here and they have been so generous to let all family members (all 125+) take advantage of the "inexpensive getaway" it provides. Mostly people like to come here in the fall, winter and spring when it is very pleasant. Most people stay away this time of year when it is typically over 100 degrees for weeks on end. Oh, but not us! Paul loves, loves, loves the heat. We mostly just sit by the huge swimming pool and relax -- me in the shade of a huge palm tree and Paul in the direct, skin-baking sunshine.
Last night around 8 pm we started to sense that it was not very cool in the condo even though we could feel the air blowing down the heating/cooling vents. Don't you just love it when the major equipment breaks down on a weekend evening! We called about 10 different ads from the yellow pages and finally got a real person who came over and told us that our 1987 air conditioner unit was dead!!! But, good news (???), he could get one Saturday morning and we'd be back in comfort ASAP (just in time to pack up and head home). That was somewhat good news; it solved one problem but created another. At 10:30 pm last night it was still 96 degrees. Sleeping here at the condo, even with the windows open, was going to feel like sleeping on a house boat at Lake Powell this time of year and we have already done that before. So we packed up our toothbrushes and pjs and moved over to a nearby hotel for the night.
Pretty soon we will be enjoying (and appreciating) cool air again!
2 comments:
Man I don't know what I would do without air???
How did the pioneers do it?
Not much fun when you are waiting for the repair guy.. but sounds like you weren't playing the "martyr" either
...going to the hotel was brilliant!
Hope you are cooler now:)
B.
I've been dying in the heat with the air going full blast. You are truly one hot mama.
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