Myrtle, I've been on the hiring side, and the recruiting process can move very slowly because there are so many people involved, and most places wait as long as they can to see how many applicants are going to turn up. It's awful for the applicants. I did make sure that people who were not going to advance in the process were told as soon as possible.
Penguinz, how do you feel about your DH taking the redundancy and possibly retiring? It is an adjustment for both spouses. Sorry you've had such hot weather to deal with. 33 C is quite hot if you don't have air conditioning in the house.
We may need to replace our central AC condenser. It lost a pound of refrigerant over the course of a month, which means that there's a leak somewhere. The HVAC bloke is coming on Thursday to do a pressure test to locate the leak. If it's the coil that's leaking, the whole unit has to be replaced. It's about 12 years old, I think, so I guess we've gotten our money's worth from it. Now is actually a good time to do it, as the weather is still fairly moderate and the company isn't that busy. A new one will likely be more energy efficient and less expensive to run as well.
Ella, I have never heard of coffee cheeseballs. Those look fabulous. Do you make them with espresso powder or brewed coffee?
My super-plush bathrobe arrived yesterday, and it is every bit as posh and comfortable as I expected. It's also a bit heavy for this time of year, so It will go in my closet until the fall. The new towels are coming tomorrow and I ordered matching bath mats yesterday, on the last day of the sale. The old bath mats have a rubber backing, which causes problems in the tumble dryer, so I wanted to replace them anyway.
DS came to visit for the long weekend, which was lovely. He made pizza dough on Saturday and then made pepperoni-and-onion pizza for us last night. I love that he lives close enough to come home easily for the weekends. We sent him home with a freezer bag of goodies from Trader Joe's, a specialty grocer we have here but he doesn't in his new town. We love their pork potstickers cooked in our air fryer.
I was outside yesterday and spotted this very large snapping turtle. We're right next to some wetlands, and she must have wandered up from there. It's the time of year when they lay eggs, so she must have been looking for a place to lay them. She wandered back to the wetlands area shortly after I took these pictures. I looks like her shell is a bit damaged, poor thing. And I'm starting to see some buds open on my roses, which is quite promising.