Christine bailed on cleaning Friday due to the high water. I can’t say I blame her. It continued to rain into the weekend. There was damage all around us.
Saturday was church and the Mexican restaurant. Ted saw Dr. C for his annual check up on Monday. His lab work was fine. When we asked about PSA (considering family history), Dr. C. said “Ted’s is better than mine.”
Ted has to have his colonoscopy and endoscopy at the hospital and not the clinic because of his age. The first appointment he can do is the second week in August unless someone cancels in the next 6 weeks.
We had the AC company come out for regular spring maintenance on the AC. He talked Ted into a chemical clean of the compressor. He said our drain that comes into the guest bath sink was not draining well and we may need a plumber. We have had trouble in the past so we had a plumber clean and snake it.
But the soffit drain started dripping onto the deck.
It still dripped outside. We called the AC people again! They came out and put chlorine tablets in the drain. It continued to drip. Finally the manager came out. There was a soft start on the condenser knocked off (assume from the chemical clean) so they fixed that for free. He made them access the coil upstairs and it was leaking and freezing up. So we got a new coil the next day. We had AC once again and thought all was good. Nope! Water was “streaming” out of the soffit drain. Back on the phone and they sent the master plumber who also does HVAC. He said the unit is working, the drain is not clogged but the path of condensation missed the pathway to the drain so it goes in the overflow pan and out the drain from the soffit. So … someone will be here Monday to find out just what needs to be done with the pan and the paths to the drains. I was getting really stressed about trusting it when we are gone 6 weeks. Fingers crossed.
While all this was going on Anna, Ted and I were emptying the kitchen cabinets preparing for the cabinet painters to arrive Monday. We agonized over a color. There are 1000s of colors with the slightest shade difference and it is such a big decision. I have the whole dining room filled with dishes. There are a lot of things I am giving Anna and Fedelia for their South African resettlement program. Several sets of glasses, a coffee service for 12 with lunch and dessert plates plus coffee cups, flan pan, trifle bowl, set of 3 spring form pans and probably other things when I am putting everything away at the end of the week.
Because Ted and I unloaded most of the cabinets, we all decided to put together the fence to hide the transformer box in the SW corner of our back yard. Uwe had stopped over so I let the four of them work on it and just stayed out of the way.
Christo is coming Monday to work on the last NW corner. Not sure just what he has in mind. It’s a small area so a bull rock water path and ground cover maybe.
On Thursday our neighborhood lunch turned out great. Fedelia joined us and Joy, a new house renter, came too. Joy volunteers at Canopy Cancer Care and has taken a patient under her wing. Vicki is a cancer patient getting radiation for one month and staying in a motel. She joined us. Originals, Gail and Jeanette, were there too. It was amazing how the whole group clicked. Recipes and info were exchanged and plans to go to an exercise dance class were in the making. It was a fine time.
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