Things on Tuesday
Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday:
- The heat. I HATE hot, anything over 85 is too hot and we are headed for our---oh, I don't know---7th day in a row of triple digit heat index's.
- Finding out that Jordan's bedroom just bakes in the sun---there is a definite temperature difference between the hallway and his bedroom. The thermostat is in the hallway and has been reaching 79 degrees in the afternoons and Jordan's room feels like it's 90. Vent is open, light/heat blocking curtains are hanging in the window and his ceiling fan is going 90-to-nothin'. Still hot.
- Still so very sad that Baron is so unhappy at night...now, though, I've pretty much started sleeping through his whining and scratching of the crate door.
- No rain for what seems like a long time and none in the forecast.
- Excel
- Being a one car family
- Need to pay the bills....and don't want to. Have the money to, just don't want to write out the checks or go to paymybills.com to actually get it done.
- Need to get Caroline's b-day present in the mail---today! Her 2nd birthday is Sunday.
- Surrounded by so many pregnant women----although I'm almost to the point that I'm glad it's not me.
Totally Terrific Things on Tuesday:
- Going to St. Louis in a couple of weeks.
- Chris's grandma is turning 90.
- All my flowers seem to be thriving, even in the heat.
- The sprinkler system.
- I have a job....while so many don't.
- Planning a special surprise for Chris's 40th birthday!
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His duct/vent is open. I stood on a chair Sunday and checked the flow coming from the vent. It's there; not terribly hard, but there and blows onto the overheated window....I imagine his vent is one of the first ones as it is closest to the AC unit.
The main issue is his room gets hit with sun pratically all day, first the South-most facing wall followed by West-most wall with big picture window.
I think it might help if we take the vent cover off and turn it around so the air is directed more into the room and not straight down the window. Or, we could just close the door and tell him to deal. LOL!!!
We have been having similar bad heat indexes....It's brutal and hard to explain that the heat index combined with misty humidity of 85% is really difficult to deal with daily. On the up note for me, it poured and thundered at 4 am today, which helped....
How long has Baron been night crated? Teulu used to hate that oo and eventually got used to it, and now his crate is like an unused relic.
And I am having a similar Bill issue.
Baron has been crated since just a few weeks after we moved to the new house.
The OLD house had a crawl space with a LOT of give in the floor. Baron could make the whole house shake as he was coming down the hall. This house is on a slab so the floor has ZERO give to it. Baron is a mini-dachsund. He jumped off the couch one day and immediately yipped then started walking with his head down and crying when picked up. A trip to the vet, some anti-inflammetory drugs and he was better. The vet also told us to keep him from jumping down off of the furniture. Since he has been known to catapult himself off the bed in the middle of the night to bark at some unseen thing...and since he'll get mad and tear something up if he's got the run of the house and I deny his 'begging' to be let up on the bed...he's got to be crated. I hate it. We've discussed getting a set of those doggie stairs...but hate to spend the money if my old stubborn dog is too old and stubborn to learn to use them.
But, I think I'm going to check them out. I always wanted a small dog to sleep with me...now I have one and had him with me for 8+ years. I really really miss him.