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While #2 Son, His Bride and our little Annie are living here, he is determined to pitch in and help wherever he can.
When he found out my car, GusGus (yes, we name our cars, don't judge), has no A/C in our south Louisiana swamp heat, he wanted to see if he could help as he's a fair hand at minor repairs and maintenance.
He sent me to an auto parts place for a can of the refrigerant with stop leak and dye in it, the special flashlight with a black light you need so you can see the dye if it's leaking out of the system at any point, and the nozzle/tube you use to put the refrigerant into the system.
Tuesday evening, i popped the hood and cranked the car, turning the A/C on so the compressor would draw the refrigerant out of the can and into the system and he hooked it up, waited until the can was empty, then started looking with the black light to see if there was dye showing leaks in the system.
Turns out when Ford made the Focus, they made it as hard as possible to do anything with it, putting all the hoses and wires behind a skid plate and the compressor to the A/C itself behind the firewall, so even if it was just leaking from a hose where he could see it and replace it, he'd need a lift to get to it.
We could hear the compressor kick in and while the refrigerant was in there, even if only for a short time, it should have blown cold but it never did, so while he didn't succeed in locating and fixing a small leak in my cooling system, he did give it a good try and now we know it's probably going to not be worth the money to repair it.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Pitch.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Unique
Funny
Odd-looking
Habitation of an
Open-Minded
Unabashed
Sassy
Eccentric
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful a bit of vacuum surgery has Ms. G's above-the-floor-cleaning tool on her vacuum working properly again after it greedily sucked up a paper towel.
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It's International Box Day, and if you do not understand the need for this one, you do not have a cat!
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Asatru Alliance Founding Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan
Birthday of José Gervasio Artigas / "Never Again" Day -- Uruguay (Dia del Nunca Mas)
Butterfly Day -- an ecard holiday; if you know someone who loves butterflies, send an ecard, let them know you are thinking of them
Corpus Christi -- Catholic Christian
Day of the Independent Hungary -- Hungary (a memorial day for those martyred in 1958, and for the end of Soviet occupation)
Festival for Minerva -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of arts, crafts, skill, war, and intelligence)
Festival of the Coming Ice Age -- can't find out anything about this one, but it sounds hilarious
Garfield the Cat Day (his birthday/comic strip premier)
Juneteenth -- US, celebrates the news of freedom on the day it came to slaves on Galveston Island, Texas
Labour Day -- Trinidad and Tobago
National Dump the Pump Day -- The American Public Transportation Association used to sponsor this day to encourage you to consider public transportation as a way to cut down on high gasoline prices
National Martini Day -- some sites specify a dry martini
New Church Day -- Swedenborgian Christian
Recess at Work Day -- engage in productive play!
Rusalka's Week begins -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (week long festival to honor the divinity of rivers)
Spooky Stories Appreciation Night -- because someone thought it would be a good night to tell a few scary tales
St. Boniface of Querfurt's Day (Patron of Prussia)
St. Jude's Day (Patron of desperate situations, forgotten/impossible/lost causes, hospitals, hospital workers; Saint Petersburg, FL, US)
World Sauntering Day -- origin unknown, but perhaps begun at Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) in Michigan during the 1970s as a response by W.T. Rabe to a growing movement toward the recreation of jogging and the idea was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them; the rules are to observe the lost art of Victorian sauntering, discouraging jogging, lollygagging, sashaying, fast walking, and trotting, but no word on meandering that i can find!
Anniversaries Today:
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones, 1999
Birthdays Today:
Zoe Saldana, 1978
Poppy Montgomery, 1972
Mia Sara, 1967
Andy Lauer, 1965
Aung San Suu Kyi, 1965
Paula Abdul, 1962
Kathleen Turner, 1954
Ann Wilson, 1951
Phylicia Rashad, 1948
Salman Rushdie, 1947
Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, 1942
Gena Rowlands, 1930
Louis Jourdan, 1919
Pauline Kael, 1919
Pat Buttram, 1915
Abe Fortas, 1910
Earl W. Bascom, 1906
Lou Gehrig, 1903
Guy Lombardo, 1902
Moe Howard, 1897
Wallis Simpson, 1896
Elbert Green Hubbard, 1856
Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834
Blaise Paschal, 1623
King James I of England and VI of Scotland, 1566
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Batman Returns(Film), 1992
"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"(Musical), 1978
"The Rocky Horror Show"(Musical), 1973
"Devil May Hare"(Cartoon short, Tasmanian Devil's premier), 1954
"I've Got a Secret"(TV), 1952
"Moon Mullins"(Comic strip), 1923
Today in History:
King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver, 1269
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven, 1306
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America, 1586
Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion, 1770
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1816
The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields (Hoboken, New Jersey)with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1; Cartwright umpired, 1846
Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom; the anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 35 other states as Juneteenth, 1865
Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro, 1867
After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist, 1870
The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins, 1875
The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington, 1910
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York, 1953
Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom, 1961
In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped, 1982
Norway ratifies the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989, 1990
Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway, 2006
The first full genetic study of house cats, published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals that they were domesticated about 9,000 years ago, and are all descended from one species, the African wildcat, 2017
General Electric is dropped from the Dow Jones Index, the last original member from 1907, 2018
Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate, 2019
The United Nations adopts the first-ever legally binding international treaty to govern the high seas, called the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty, 2023
Archaeologists and scientists reveal they've found the world's oldest wine inside a 1st century CE Roman funeral urn mixed with a man's ashes in a mausoleum in Carmona, Spain, 2024
