Myrtle, good luck with the job. How old is your DSD? Do you have to be an adult to get PIP?
Uman, it's been peaceful here too, especially with DS away for the weekend.
Ella, it must be torture to have to cook while fasting. I hope you found someone else to make the cake.
Math, it's been unpleasantly hot and humid here too.
The story of the air con repair took a turn towards disaster on Friday. The AC was working, but they still needed to replace a circuit board in the compressor. They were able to get it working last week by bypassing that board's function, which is to shut down the compressor if the level of refrigerant was too low or too high.
The bloke (not the same one who got us working last week) shows up late Friday afternoon with the replacement board. There's a problem. While replacing it, he somehow managed to send a current of electricity to another circuit board in the air handler in the house. This is the part that operates the fan that blows the cold air into the house. The current destroyed that board. If the air handler isn't working, we have no air con, and they can't even order a replacement for it until tomorrow (Monday). So we've had no central air con all weekend. It's been getting up to about 32 degrees C in the afternoons, so a bit uncomfortable.
They were very apologetic, but other than suggesting that we buy some window air con units, had nothing to suggest. Almost all of our windows are casement style, with the panes that swing out, and won't take any kind of AC unit. We have two in the family room that slide horizontally. DH was able to buy a portable AC unit Friday night that would work with one of those windows. It's the kind that sit on the floor, on wheels, with a hose that come out the back and discharges the hot air through a panel that you fit into the window. It's doing a decent job of keeping the family room and kitchen cool, but the bedrooms are at the other end of the house. It's better than nothing. DS knows nothing about any of this. I have to pick him up at the train station later when he lets me know what train he'll be on.
DH will be on the phone tomorrow with the HVAC company first thing Monday to sort out the rest of this. I suspect that Tuesday or Wednesday is the earliest we can expect the air con to be fully fixed.
Oh, last but not least, I found some kind of animal droppings on our second story deck. I suspect it's a racoon that has climbed up to steal the tomatoes I have growing there. I may have to get rid of them.