Talking on Tuesday

Not far from here is a place called Apple Hill and there are farms that open up in the fall and sell all kinds of apple goodies, including frozen apple pies. One place has a sour cream apple pie that is amazing. Now I'm hungry for a huge slice.

My friend found out that her ankle is not broken. That's a relief in that she won't have to wear a cast but they are sending her for a custom made boot.

Gin, I'm ready for some homemade apply anything--what a great harvest!! Wow!

OK, so Mother refused to consider air conditioning--but it was freakin' 90 degrees in their living room yesterday--and she has emphysema and is on oxygen full time. So I finally just put my foot down and told them I was buying them a room/portable air conditioner. Period. "No" is not an option. I said Sinbad needed it when he's with them (and he does for his laryngeal paralysis stuff). Dad was all over it and agreed 100%. (His brother has a similar unit which Dad inspected when we visited a few weeks ago.)  I am also getting one for myself....or rather, for Sinbad :-) 'cause this heat isn't going to go away anytime soon.

JackieG

we grew up in Texas without any a/c in our house or at school. 

Oh, is that familiar. When I taught in Texas the only classrooms with AC were the computer room and the self-contained classroom for students with moderate-severe disabilities (my classroom room!). I remember that real active lessons just didn't happen after mid-morning on the "warm" days, and rarely were lights on in the classrooms. How COOL that today is the AC anniversary!!

JackieG

Today is the 110th anniversary of the first air conditioning unit.  Invented by Willis Carrier. 

I think I have his prototype pumping cold air through my house. As it uses R12, if there is a problem, I have to have it replaced. The model before this one involved loading ice from the top and waving a fan.

Weather person just reported that the dew point was at the uncomfortable level. I was sitting on the patio enjoying the breeze, Didn't know I was supposed to be sweating, so I didn't.

The Arkansas apples appear to be several weeks ahead of mine. One of my Honey Crisp trees is loaded, the other has about 4. But the crabapple is dripping with apples. We like the apple butter, but apple sauce from Honey Crisp has to be tasted to be appreciated. And we are running out.

 I'm at the computer with my niece, who is 18 months old, and she loves pups. Jackie, she is especially impressed by your signature.

griffinej5

 I'm at the computer with my niece, who is 18 months old, and she loves pups. Jackie, she is especially impressed by your signature.

FrisbyPI

on the "warm" days, and rarely were lights on in the classrooms. How COOL that today is the AC anniversary!!

Thank you dear Willis, inventor of A/C.  Even tho I have a window unit that is probably only 80% effective, I am super thankful for it!!!!  As is Gracie, even tho sometimes she goes in another area so it isn't blowing on her. Fair enough.  Glad your parents relented.  It's simply too hot - it always makes me so upset when elderly people die in this kind of heat.  I think of the families who just call and mom/dad say they are fine but if they only went to visit they would feel in that second-story apartment (b/c they can't afford the taxes on the family home anymore) is just roasting them to an early death!  A/C all the way when it's oppressive like this.

Still no baby yet. Momma is completely miserable.  She went in b/c they think she's having issues with her liver which was causing her severe pain.  They got the pain controlled initially, but now that the contractions have started, she's a pregnant lady about to have her baby... so.... I feel so bad for her.  Come on, Baby Sydney, be safe and healthy coming out now!

 Jackie, I think she liked yours best because it had the most pups. She was pretty surprised when I posted, and Callie and Luke showed up on the screen.

I always went to a school with A/C. A lot of the elementary schools where I live don't have it, even some built after the one I went to. Mine was built in the mid 70's. When we moved, my parents actually did look specifically for a school that had air. One of the things I don't get here is that there are some kids in Special Ed classes who go to school in the summer for 5-6 weeks. They don't put  them at the school with the air. The school is open and the air is on. I know so because the office is open, and the township rents space in the building to run classes for kids. My mom takes my niece to one of Friday mornings, and said the air is definitely on.  Actually, I do know the reason for this, and it has to do a bit with No Child Left Untested. They don't want to move those kids for just a few weeks, because it would be hard to adjust for them. They can't put all the kids who will get exempted from testing at one school either. They have to spread them out. Those kids can't go to this school due to a stupid court decision in PA, which basically prohibits putting all the special ed classes in trailers. In that building, some of the classes are basically big open areas organized around a meeting area in the middle. There are 4 classes in those areas, and generally one smaller room in the back where they would take kids who would just go to special ed for one thing. There are some classes along the hallways that are just single classes, but because of the open set up, and if you didn't put those kids in there, you'd be discriminating against them according to the law (but you'd be torturing so many of them in that big open space with all that stuff going on) they can't go to that school. I worked in the other school one summer, and it was horrible. They do put in window units, but, if you turn them up enough not to sweat, papers and anything really light blew away. That school was built in 1989, and the one I went to was built in 1971. The lack of air makes no sense.