Thursday...29 November 2012

The air con is fixed!
It began to rain just as the fridgee got up on the roof to look at it. The owner of the business got up and held a very large umbrella over him so that he could continue to work in the rain. (It was a Bunnings branded brolly! and Himself was heard to mutter, "now that's a REAL brolly")
Some wag from the next door business even came out said "are you right there Mary Poppins?"
I did say it was the one time in my life it was going to be alright to tell me I had a problem with gas! I did not want to be told it was the condenser which was the expensive option. Re-gassing an air con is much cheaper than fixing broken bits.
Mind you they were telling me that the new carbon tax has more than doubled the price of some air con gasses!
Anyway it was only out of gas, they patched the hole and re-gassed it and bingo we have cold air again.
Stayed overnight, did a grocery grab then came back to base; just in time for a four hour power outage! There we were, nice cold air blowing on a 40+ day and out went the power. By the time it came back on we were wondering why we had bothered to have the air con fixed. Four hours without even a fan in that heat was a bit vicious. No idea what caused the outage but it was fairly wide spread, taking in several towns across the central west of NSW.
Still we were able to make ourselves useful by making the elderly Aunt and Uncle a nice fresh cup of tea on our gas stove. Of course we had no sooner put the cups on the table and the power came back on. Probably should have boiled that kettle sooner!
Tonight it tried to rain, nothing serious yet, just mainly thunder and lightning but we feel there is a big storm coming as the frogs are croaking loudly during the middle of the day and the ants have invaded the house and all attempts to remove them have failed, plus the tiny flying insects are so thick we can hardly see the outside lights around the farm at night. Hope it is not too nasty when it arrives.