I'd like to thank Canada for it's cool breezes

Okay, summer's great and all, but we just experienced a week of high temps and even higher humidity. Like heat indexes of over a hundred.

Last evening a cold front came through and this morning we awoke to beautiful sunshine and clear skies with a brisk northerly breeze.  Thank you Canada for sharing your air.  Those of us with broken air conditioners really appreciate it.

The new furnace & air conditioner will be installed in a couple of days which guarantees that we won't have another day over 85 for the rest of the summer.

So what about the rest of the summer you say?  How come no talk of plans and trips and gala comings and goings.
Well, we're victims of the economy too.  Our own economy.  A new furnace and air conditioner will set you back quite a bit.  Combined with the uncertainty of Tim's job we're all walking that same tight rope of cash.

We'll be enjoying what friend Mollie fondly refers to as a "suck" cation.  Stay-cation is all well and good, but going to Ireland sure beats "exploring the diversity of the area around you".   Not that we don't appreciate what we have here in our section of the midwest, it's just hard to enjoy yourself with doom and gloom hanging over your head.

But we're going to be upbeat, aren't we?

Wednesday we enjoyed our dinner at the herb farm and I actually have photos to post.
It's just that I have to get back outside and finish the yard project we started yesterday.  Then there's the stuff to move in the basement so the old furnace can be removed and the new one installed.  What fun that will be.

Oh, and the tree trimmers finished grinding out the stump of the tree we had cut down earlier this summer, that means their large bill will be finding it's way to us shortly too.  Add that to  the two car repairs we had done last week  and you can see why  I'm finding it a little difficult to be a ray of sunshine right now.

Yes, everything else is going along fine, and of course Tim and I have each other which is great because at least we can commiserate together.

The Fourth of July is fast approaching and you all know it's my fa-vo-rite holiday.  Our plans are still up in the air, but whatever we do I know we'll have fun and I hope you all do too.