Air Conditioners

August 5

I am thankful for air conditioners. An air conditioner is one of those things that we take for granted until we don't have one or until it breaks. That is what happened to us on Friday night-our main air conditioner went out. The fan was running but it was not cooling. I can't imagine how I lived for a year in an un-air conditioned room while I was a student at LSU. But I guess it's what we get used to.

Here's a funny story about my dad and the Tulley family. It was during one of the hurricanes that blasted Baton Rouge in the 1960s, I think it was either Hilda or Betsy. Our electricity, and thus, our air conditioner, had been knocked out by the storm and the Tulleys were very hot and miserable. My dad got this excited look on his face like he had proudly just thought of the most ingenious thing and ran outside to the storeroom by the carport. He came inside lugging an old fan that we had had since before we moved to Baton Rouge, but of course, which we had not since had to use because we had central AC. He plugged the fan in, and switched on the On switch. When nothing happened, we all realized at the same time that it was not going to work because there was no electricity. We all laughed, including dad. For years after that, whenever the electricity went out, we chided dad to get the fan!

The photo above is the portable replacement air conditioner that Bebe and I put in our bedroom Friday night so we could make it through until Saturday morning. Below is Tony of Total Comfort Heating and Air working on our unit, which he fixed very rapidly. He said I could use his photo here. Turns out it was a bad capacitor. Here's a plug for Total Comfort: I've used them multiple times and they always do a great job. Even when other companies couldn't make it work, they always have. PUN ALERT: I am now writing this blog in total comfort.

August 5b

thoughts for today

thoughts for today

rolling around the inside of my head

it feels hot today

as i contemplate getting out of bed

just two things i want

two things that i wish i had for me

one a nice ice cold mint julep to drink

and a real cold and breezy AC .

© rt tulley

thermostat

i am always cold

she is always hot

we cannot arrive at

a mutual thermostat.

© rt tulley