Yes, can you believe it?

When you hear people say to turn down or turn off your AC

when you leave town, they are not talking to people

who live in weather above 100 degrees.

We were gone for the weekend (woohoo! my first this summer)

and when we came back, our AC would not cool down our house completely.

Do you remember when we were kids and dad would always have us go check the refrigeration unit to see if the pipe was frozen or not?

I had no idea that that would happen to a unit like we have.

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Well, it did.

The unit outside with the compressor had a completely frozen pipe. Not just a little bit.

The repairman went up into our attic where the main unit is and said that it was a solid sheet of ice.

(I guess the air flows through something to cool off the air before it is pushed into the house, and the thing the air flows through was a solid sheet of ice. Therefore, no air was getting through to cool our house.)

So, Mr. Repairman turned on my HEATER to thaw the ice. My house was already pushing 78 degrees. (more in my bedroom)

There was too much ice so the heater idea wasn't working, so he had to turn it all off after 20-30 minutes and just wait till the ice thawed.

So,

here I was in the middle of a St. George summer day in July,

109 degrees outside

7 + months pregnant

with my house heater running.

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Once it thawed out, Mr. R could then check to see if it was low on freon,

which it wasn't too low.

The cause could be several things:

a power fluctuation,

dirty air filters,

etc.

I'm putting my money on the dirty air filters.

The last one we pulled out was so brown that it looked like a

board.

Needless to say, I will be getting my air filters changed

on my first request from now on. (They are 11 ft. high)

(I can tell when they are ready to be changed, cause the air "wheezes" through the filter when the filter is clogged.)

And I won't be turning down my AC when we leave town.

It will cost way less money to pay for AC for 2 days,

than it will to pay for a repairman.

You'll never guess in a million years

what is on and running at my house right now!!!!

Anyone care to make a guess???

This was the end of June 2007

I think we took his pictures

in May 2007

or June.

Man, he looks little in this picture.

This is Koby's favorite one

mine too.

I think it is 1820.

We hope to have his Eagle Court of Honor in August.

PS. The least awarded merit badge is the

Backpacking merit badge.

I think

it might be, because it is

a hard one

and time consuming to get.

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With this silly 50-miler they went on,

it was Koby's and Kyson's last requirement

they needed to do to earn it.

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By now, Koby has already earned his first

Palm

since Eagle Scout.

Your wait is over..........

but mine isn't.

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Enjoy some pictures

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of your favorite genius

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courtesy of

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Kauri herself.

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Put here for your enjoyment.

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but mostly to

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fill up space

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so your

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blogger reader

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doesn't give away

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my solution.

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Now,

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your wait

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is over......

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How'd you do that?!!!!!

How tall is this chair?

Well,

who really cares,

but

just in case this ever happens to you again,

you might want to know......

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it is

exactly the length

of the space between

Kinzie's bed

and her door

+ 1/2 inch.

WHY do I know that?

Because,

two weeks ago, my hubby and my two oldest boys

left for 6 days to go earn some silly 50-miler patch.

On the morning of day 2 of them being gone, (and no cell service)

as we were cleaning Kinzie's room,

this chair,

which we had left leaning against her bed,

fell over

and pinned her door shut with no one in the room.

This is as far as Kinzie could reach her hand through the door.

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What to do?

(At least their swim suits and some of their clothes

were in the other room, so they will have other clothes to wear.)

Kinz and Kauri will have to sleep on the couch. . . .

unless they have a genius mother like ME!!!

It took several attempts at different ideas, but

I got their door open.

Okay,

now's your chance to throw out your

own genius ideas.

How'd I get her door open?

(It did not involve going through her window

or an attic

and I'm 99.9% sure nobody will guess this.)

What would YOU do? (Besides cry, I did that, too.)

Kauri's Queries...

The other day, I beat "procrastination".

The sink was finally cleared out,

I had access to the garbage disposal,

it was finally not clogged,

AND I felt like I had waited long enough.

So,

I opened the plastic container of leftover mac n cheese

that had been sitting out for daaaaayyyysss.

Like I said, procrastination. .

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The smell of DEATH emerged

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and filled my kitchen immediately.

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Kauri,

who had climbed on the counter just above the sink to watch me,

said, "Eewww, that really stinks!"

which is what I expected her and everyone else to say.

I told her to get down

and go somewhere else

so she didn't have to smell it anymore,

and then she asked.....

"How come YOU get to smell it?"

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lol

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