Air Conditioning

This time of year you bless you air conditioner every day. Will the last couple of days have been interesting for us. Luckily it has been cooler than normal so it hasn't been to bad yet.

Fri. we were at the kitchen table working on our crossword puzzles when almost right on 9 AM the electricity went off. Talk about a panic feeling. Called my friend to see if hers was off and of course not. Hers was working fine. Then I called the neighbor two houses down to see if his was off. I figured that was the best way to find out if it was a circuit breaker or bad news. It was bad news although a pretty funny conversation to start with. I had told him who I was and asked if his electricity was on. At first he said yes they had used it minutes before for toast and then "no" surprisingly his was also off.

I called the APS right then and put our address in for no electricity. It came back on at 9:37 AM so the house didn't have time to heat up. Then last night, Sat., we were just about ready to turn the TV on to watch the news and oops all our lights, the fan and air conditioner went off. Didn't even bother calling anyone since I figured some people would already be in bed. Called the APS again and "yes they were starting to get calls in our area and would send a truck out". Will we stayed up for a while since some of the lights had been on and figured maybe a 1/2 hour right? No 10:30 PM came and went and no lights so we decided to open a bedroom window and go to bed.

Wouldn't you know that our bedroom is the warmest room in the house and with no air conditioning and no fan kind of had a bad feeling they wouldn't really send anyone out until morning. I finally tried sleeping at the end of the bed where the window would give the most breeze if there were any. Let me tell you there wasn't a whole lot of wind last night! At 12AM almost on the dot everything came back on. What a relief.

The bad news is J's oxygen concentrator also works on electricity and we only have one big tank for an emergency. It worked out fine for now but think the big portable tank is only good for 6 hours. He feels better knowing he has the oxygen at night but being at sea level his oxygen level doesn't drop that dramatically. He just wouldn't have as restful a sleep.

I decided this was a perfect day to do all my wash. I can't wait to see what time the electricity goes off this time. Three out of three right? Hopefully that won't happen since it is going to break 100º again today. The night should get about 77º so maybe we would get by again. I guess I should say we will get by but there would be two very unhappy campers at our house. ;-)

After the wash I have a jaunt to the grocery store and then maybe go to the gym and do some exercises. I certainly don't want to be walking this time of day. We could always go to the pool if we lose it this afternoon. That wouldn't be bad.

I can't think of anything else exciting happening here in AZ right now. Hope all is well with everyone.
CL