First, happy birthday to my granddaughter, Colette! Nothing like a grandchild to make you feel older than dirt. She’s 15 today. Next year, she’ll be driving me around. 😬
My two favorite S&L guys were back again this morning trying to find a solution to my A/C challenge. One more round of parts ordered, my optimism for a positive outcome has evaporated. Only one head of the downstairs mini-split unit isn’t working… and we have a portable floor unit that cools just fine. It’s just noisy. I’m not dying of heat exhaustion although it did reach almost 90° here today.
Workers here means I have to occupy 3 dogs outside.
I keep the dogs outside, weather permitting, while workers are here so they can go in and out easier. Also, when I have the dogs outside, they don’t have to fear getting bit by the meanie head or slobbered on by the 2 friendly ones. Today, Hugo complicated things by escaping the yard again! Where we THINK he’s getting out isn’t a reachable space for a human, so we’re struggling with a solution.
Hugo can flatten himself out like a pancake. I’m pretty sure he could belly-crawl through a mouse hole.
Merida tried and failed to be a copycat.
Merida carries a bit more weight than Hugo (about 45 pounds more), so her pancake mode is more like a soufflé. Her extra body weight didn’t stop her from trying to escape through the same spot unnoticed. Her dusty face was all the evidence needed to pin the crime on her.
Now you know: In 2017, a 4-yr-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After talking to her blind grandfather, she decided to walk 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -29°F over several hours to the next homestead in order to find help. She successfully did.