It's Hot in Texas

Well it may be spring still but it sure is HOT already in Texas! Our normally policy at home is that we do not say we are hot 'till mid June since it can be in the 100's well into August but this year we broke that policy.

I know for some who read this post they will think I am an ultra wimp, so be it, I am! You see we have had central heat and air for almost 13 years in this house and I grew up with it. We do set the thermostat around 78 and we try to wait to turn on the ac but with three kids one of which has asthma I must say AC is pretty much a necessity.

Anyways, Thursday the house seemed warm but with the heat index it was suppose to around 90 outside so I figured no big deal I just need to adjust to the rising temp. Then Friday morning it was really warm in the house, I checked the thermostat and it showed 90+. I set the AC to 75 and turned on some fans. A few hours later it was getting hotter and the air coming out of our vents was getting warmer. You guessed it, our ac was broken. I called our service company only to find out that it would be Saturday afternoon before someone could come out. We did our best to stay cool and boy we sure were excited when the door bell rang!

It was short lived though. Like I said, our AC unit is almost 13 years old and this time it is not cost effective to fix it. Every year for the last 5 years we have pumped money into it to keep it hanging on but alas this year it has a freon leak in the condenser motor and the outside motor is dead!

As much as we hate it we will have to have a new ac unit put in and it will be Thursday before they can get to us. One huge blessing is that the company we use lent us to window units to use until then and Scott and I went to Sam's and picked up some fans to help circulate the air.

Surprisingly they are keeping the house comfortable, they sure look ugly and are nosier than we are use to but the house is comfortable and I do not have to worry about the kids. Oh yeah, God blessed us with rain last night so that also helped cool the house off last night.