Category: SA Times

I kid thee not, 3/8 inch of rain Tuesday evening.  Dangedest thing I ever saw.  A little cloud came up out of the north and gave us a  nice little shower as we ate dinner.  ‘course Joyce couldn’t just sit back and enjoy it like me.  She had to dance all over the kitchen and living room worrying about that silly Max dog getting wet.  I wanted to jerk a knot in her tail but I realized her protective instinct might come in handy in my dotage so I just ignored her and enjoyed this freak of nature.  Don’t try to tell me prayers always go unanswered. Continue reading “Shower of Rain” →

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” →

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” →

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” →