So I guess another Republican took a shot at Trump. Or not literally, I believe the Secret Service found him lurking in the bushes before he actually pulled the trigger. It's kinda wild that someone shot at him and actually killed someone else, and we're not even talking about it any more. Probably because he was a Republican; there's nothing for ( Read more... )

Francine is intensifying as it travels over the hot waters of the Gulf and they think it will be a cat 2 at landfall. So that changes things. We'll make a decision later today, but we're leaning towards evacuation. Evacuating with 2 octogenarians--one of them with full-blown dementia--both of them on walkers, and a chihuahua, is no picnic, but ( Read more... )

It looks like we're going to get Tropical Storm Francine--possibly cat 1 Hurricane Francine--on Wednesday. That's not enough to warrant leaving; we don't have to worry about storm surge where we are (it's why the 'rents moved to this side of Abbeville after Hurricane Ike), and the generator was just serviced, so we'll stay put. The only mild ( Read more... )

So the upstairs unit finally died. We were in the middle of a cold snap last week, overnight lows in the teens, and Monday night it started smoking just like it did this time last year. We had to have the fire department out again, but this time it was more serious. The blower wouldn't stop smoking, and it singed some of the duct insulation. What ( Read more... )

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