by rakeeter At least when it simmers like it did this week the wind doesn’t blow.
It occurs to me that we have a lot of rain in our future. This area averages about 20 inches a year. At some point the rainfall will regress to the mean, which means our rainfall could be something like 30 inches for a few years. Can’t wait. Continue reading “Baked Amarillo”
by rakeeter It’s just Joyce, me, Max the dog, the cats and the fowl keeping the barbarians at bay here on SA. The neighbors left Wednesday on the first leg of their trip to Switzerland. They left after Chris got off work and drove to Garland where they spent the day with the Wylies. Friday they flew first to New York and from there to Zurich. I’m sure by now they are safely in the welcoming arms of Omi and Opi. Continue reading “Our Lonely Struggle”
by rakeeter One appreciates air conditioning this time of year, and even more when the a/c goes out as ours did last Wednesday. The compressor had been getting steadily noisier at least as long ago as last year so I wasn’t surprised when I came for lunch Wednesday and Joyce said she didn’t think the A/C was working. I called the outfit that handled the heating and air on the 2003 remodel and they confirmed my suspicions. The compressor was DOA. Continue reading “A/C Compressor DOA”
by rakeeter Yesterday evening a mallard hen made a quack landing in the pond, the first time I’ve seen a duck visit in a while. I got in the pond week before last, pulled up some of the cattails and cleared some of the moss so there was a little open water. Perhaps that’s what encouraged ms. duck to visit, that and the fact that there is precious little water for ducks other places. The playas in our part of the panhandle are dry. Anyway, I always experience gratification when the wild folk visit us. Continue reading “Quack Landing”
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