Thank heaven we have separate air conditioners upstairs and down because the one upstairs here (where the computer is!) keeps cutting out for some reason. Mark is changing out the thermostat at the moment -- we'll see if that's it. But the temperature today got up to 101! And unlike the desert, it's not ONLY hot, hot, hot -- it's also incredibly humid. Whew! (Thank God my hair is only an inch long!)
The poor horses were both covered with sweat when I went out to feed them. I have to say, though, that once they come in to the barn to eat, it IS cooler in there, and that commercial ceiling fan really does keep the air moving. It's still darned hot - but not as bad as standing out in the sun, anyway.
I guess I should be grateful, though. At least it's not doing 10 inches of rain every hour or so like it's doing in places over in Florida right now, thanks to tropical storm Debbie. That darned thing is just SITTING out there in the Gulf, only moving about 2 or 3 miles an hour and keeping the waves and the rain churned up big time. Julie, who works with me, told me some friends of hers went over to Florida for vacation and they are not only not allowed on the beach, but they aren't even allowed out in the pool! Some vacation, huh? Guess hundred-degree heat isn't the worst thing anyway.
I'm really excited about this weekend -- got a note from Deanna this afternoon!
I used to talk with her on a regular basis when she was the patent person at the LSU Med Center in New Orleans because I was the patent paralegal for the law firm who filed their patent applications. We dealt with each other by e-mail and phone for a couple years or so, but we had never actually met. Then came Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Most of the Med Center was destroyed, so the whole thing was moved up here to Baton Rouge while the New Orleans structures were rebuilt. They worked out of portable buildings on the Pennington Biomedical Research Center property here in BR. And although De's house in New Orleans was not destroyed, she wouldn't have been able to drive back and forth from there to work since there was no power down there for months, not to mention no working traffic lights down there either - VERY dangerous.
So although we had never actually met I always really liked her (no one could help that!), so I suggested she come up and stay here with us. And so she did for several months until the Med Center re-opened back down in New Orleans. But then it wasn't long after that before she decided to leave LSU and begin training for the Unitarian ministry! So after she graduated, for several years she was doing internships out in Washington state, then down in San Mateo, California. But she never gave up her home in New Orleans, and she eventually came back to stay a year or so ago, I think, and became an assistant at the Unitarian Church down in New Orleans.
Well she was finally ordained down there last month! Wonderful! I've read some of her sermons online, but I've never actually heard her "live." But she's going to be preaching at the Unitarian Church here in Baton Rouge this weekend so she's going to come up Saturday evening and have dinner with us and stay here overnight, then we're both going to go Sunday to hear her preach! I AM Buddhist, but the Unitarians are extremely uh . . . "ecumenical," and I am SO looking forward to it!
Of course that is the day we planned to go pick up Arthur from Zoilo and then I wanted to stop at Jan and Mike's place on our way home -- they're exactly half-way -- so I can ride with them and see how Arthur behaves with their horses (and so they can see how their horses feel about mules as well!)
So I guess we will need to start out extremely early. Let's see -- if we leave here at 6 AM we can get up there by 8 (before Zoilo needs to leave - I think he has a training appointment on Saturday mornings), then by the time we get over to Jan and Mike's place it will be maybe 9:30-ish so they may actually be awake! (I hope!) And that way we'll be able to ride early before it gets TOO awfully hot.
And that way, too, we will be able to get back home by supper time when De is planning to come up. We plan to take her OUT to eat rather than trying to fix a meal after all that! I'll tell you what, by Sunday night I'm sure I'll be ready to "rest"!
Hey! Mark got that thermostat replaced and I just realized that it's actually getting cool up here again! Excellent!
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