It’s the middle of May, but outside, it sure feels a lot like late June or early July. My watch is telling me it’s 94, the new meteorological station is telling me it’s 98. Either way, it’s pretty warm outside. But I do have to say that I am impressed that the air conditioner is not only keeping it at 75 inside it’s not running constantly. So I have to say that the blown insulation into the Attic was a good idea and a winner! I also replaced the filter and hosed off the outside condenser unit as a general maintenance item. Hopefully we won’t have to remortgage the house to pay the electric bills this summer.

I’ve been highly unmotivated today, and I’m not quite sure why. I guess it’s just taking a breath between projects. I forgot to mention yesterday that we had the Western Skylight that has leaked the entire time I’ve owned the house, removed. I hate losing the extra light in the kitchen, but I’ve also gotten sick of it leaking every other time it rained. I need it leak free so I can begin the process of remodeling the kitchen.

We are at the point where we are ready to make some remodeling decisions about the house. We have to do the kitchen, the living room, both bathrooms, and the laundry room is kind of thrown in with the kitchen. We already did the electricity, so that shouldn’t be an issue. Although now that I say that, Sandy did blow a fuse in the bathroom by having the heater running and also a hair dryer plugged in and going. I’m pretty sure that would blow a regular circuit, let alone the goofy ones we’ve got here.

I took my bicycle ride this afternoon over to Redbud Park. They are supposed to have the latest and greatest and newest and best exercise equipment being installed at that park. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about but at this point they’ve just demolished the small pads that were there for the exercise stations and our building much larger ones that have a mesh cover over them. I need to figure out what that mesh is as I’d really like some to put over our garden so it doesn’t burn up like an asteroid in Earth’s atmosphere. Today’s pictures are from Redbud Park and the ongoing construction for the new exercise equipment.