July 10, 2013

  • Hot And Humid But What Else Is New?

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    Chewlee and I got up at 5am so  that she could get dressed, eat something and then be ready for the bus at 6am.  Well, we went and sat outside about 10 minutes before the bus should have been here and guess what?  No bus.  We stayed out there until almost 20 minutes after 6 and STILL no bus so I said the hell with it and we went in the house.  Chewlee immediately laid down and was almost asleep within 5 minutes so, when the Beast got up (looking like hell) and asked if he needed to drive her, I told him  to go back to bed.  This is only Summer Camp, not school.

    When I went into my computer room, Chewlee was really and truly just about sound asleep.  But, when I went to sit down beside her on my recliner, she crawled into my lap and laid her head on my shoulder.  That was all I needed.  I laid the chair back and covered us up and we both fell asleep until around 9:30am.  I was surprised because we had gone to bed about 9pm.  We were both very tired.  Part of it was the heat, I guess.

    So Chewlee spent her day here and we were in and out of the house all day long.  The A/C window units were on in the house, keeping it cool.  When we got too hot and sweaty, we headed back into the house.  In-out , in-out...we finally had to take naps just from the heat, I think it was.  Di said her thermometer that wasn't out in the sun at all showed an outside temp of 95  degrees.  She wasn't sure how accurate it actually was because Dennis really didn't care.  He just wanted a general idea. 

    Di was just miserable today.  For the first time in all the years we've known her, she actually raised her voice to him because he didn't want to turn on the generator (yet) so they could run the AC in their RV.  But he expected her to cook for him.  She told him no damn way was she going to cook for him in the heat inside their RV (it was 105 in there) with no AC and not even a damn fan.......  Coming from her, you have no idea how funny that was to me.

    Chewlee's bike threw it's chain today.  Chewlee, of course, ran into the house to ask Papa if he would fix it for her.  He came out and fooled with it for a while but it was weird how it was set up and you couldn't get it onto the back gear due to it having to thread through this strange plastic section of the chain guard.  The Beast finally asked me how expensive a bike like that would be and I gave him my best guess.  He gathered up Chewlee and off they went to Walmart to see what they could find.  Chewlee was so excited about getting a new bike that the Beast actually spent a lot more than he wanted to.  But its a nice 20 inch bike (it goes by tire sizes, Princess...just FYI).  He made her run it up and down one of the aisles in Walmart and then they rolled it down to one of the registers.  Chewlee could hardly wait to ride it and show it off to everyone. 

    When her mother came to get her, she had parked it in the garage since THIS bike has a kickstand.  She even mastered coasting brakes within about two seconds.  But this bike will not be left outside like her last one was.  No rusting from rain except for a wild dash home, perhaps.  Now she will be overexcited about getting home tomorrow....just to ride her bike.

    What's kind of funny was that half the neighborhood was outside this evening...even before it started cooling down a bit.  We all were fanning ourselves and pulling out our tops and fanning our bodies with them by pulling them out and pushing them back.  We all agreed it was the humidity that was hardest on us.  They say a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight and, as much as we know it will lead to just more heat and humidity, the rain will be cooling and a relief.  Okay, so it's just temporary relief but we are only human, for heaven's sake!  We take what we can get. 

    Love you all.  Have a great *hump day*.