I used to have an air conditioner. It sat quietly on the roof of my house ready at a moment’s notice for me to flip the switch. Every summer it clicked on faithfully and piped nice cool air into my house.
Until last summer that is.
Our AC unit was old, we knew that and we knew that eventually we would have to replace it. Because it’s old it’s not an energy saver so we usually try not to turn it on until the heat gets unbearable. In the evenings we open the windows and sliding glass doors, turn on the ceiling fans and floor fans and then each morning we close the house up and keep the fans going to keep the house cool. We usually didn’t turn the air conditioner on until mid to late July.
Last year our house was staying fairly cool so we didn’t turn it on in the months of June or July. We spent the last week of July camping in Pinecrest and when we returned home we decided it was time to use the air conditioner.
It was a no go. The stupid thing wouldn’t turn on. We tried everything but nothing worked. We finally called a technician to come in and he gave us the news we didn’t want to hear. Our air conditioning was dead.
It wasn’t too bad though, we only had a couple of more months to deal with the heat before fall arrived and things cooled down.
As if it that wasn’t bad enough, in January the heater part of our central unit died as well. So here we were without AC in the summer and a heater in the winter. good thing we had fans and a fireplace.
We’ve been saving up money for an air conditioner, not wanting to take out a loan and all that and it’s really starting to wear on us. Last night was so damned hot I swear I could have cooked an egg on my skin. My husband said he was tempted to call someone and tell them to just come and install the damned thing.
My house sounds like a fricking airport. We have a grand total of 12 floor fans and 5 ceiling fans running at all times. Sometimes when nobody is home I turn them all off just to hear the silence. Of course you can’t talk on the phone with all that wind blowing around so you have to go out into the garage where the temperature is something like that found in the desert.
Remember that pest control commercial where the people had to swing from rings hanging from the ceiling to cross the room because they had giant fans blowing to keep the bugs out? LOL I swear to you that’s my house right now. Windy as hell. I bet I could create electricity with all these fans and wind.
It’s supposed to be a whopping 102 degrees today, I hope I don’t melt. I know my dogs are grateful they just got shaved down for the summer. If my kids weren’t home I’d run around naked all summer. Damn air conditioner…damn California weather…damn heat…damn it’s hot!
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