Neanderpundit

I have had NO air conditioning in the Escape so far this summer.

it hasn’t been much of a hardship because I had many other, larger fish to fry. On the other hand, it was nice when there were cool days.

Still, three or four days so far, I would arrive at work, or on the jobsite, looking like someone peed on me. Not optimal

I knew I had a leak in the AC compressor. Made in Korea, I had already probably exceeded the service life. So I waited until I had the scratch in Paypal and ordered the kit- the compressor, the accumulator, the oil, & flush solvent all showed up at the house last Wednesday. So Friday and yesterday, working in the new and improved shop, where all the tools can actually be located, I managed to get it out, flushed, swapped, and recharged. I could have run the vacuum down a little lower, but I can always go back and do that. And now cool air comes out of the ducts, instead of just humidity. Thank you, Mr Carrier.

a breeding pair of little foxes who live in the area, I think under an evergreen tree two doors down the street. I see them every couple of days, they’re opportunists but they also seem to like our backyard (Sort of a jungle, at present). Not as big as a big housecat, and with hella long legs, they move fast and these have not fully shed their winter coats (Good thing for them!!)

We have heard them in the night. Their bark sounds like a woman finding a big spider in her underwear drawer.

I’d rather they not come to any harm. We had one many years back when Cooney was among the living, and he and Cooney would go to war over property rights- that or he wanted to mate with cooney, who was himself a tom.

If I had chickens or rabbits, I would shoot a fox or a coyote in a minute, but so long as I don’t have any livestock to protect, I think of them as just other predators in the chain. And I leave them alone. Think of it as professional courtesy.

Cool weekend ahead. Fine by me, the AC in the scape is still not fixed. I have the parts now, I just need the time. Hope to be able to get at it tomorrow. Can only piss on one campfire at a time.