Breaking Down

For the last 3 pay checks that Ray has received, we have justenough to pay the necessary bills, the 'we have been dumb in the past but are paying it off' bills, and to fix what ever it is that's broken.  We have had our home AC break, both of our vehicles, and now the home AC has broken in a different way, with the toilet handle breaking in my hand yesterday.  Ray can fix the toilet, and the AC guy is on his way.  He said on the phone, that a lot of people are having trouble with their AC's in this heat.

It is HOT every summer in Texas.  It gets so hot that it is hard to move and breathe out in the stuff.  We have been hit high and hard this year with less rain than I remember having in a long time.  Burleson has had almost no rain at all and every day has been 100 or more since the first week of June.  I find it hard to even want to do anything that requires stepping outside.

My plants are surviving despite the heat.  I have a second round of tomatoes that will come in the next few weeks, the trees that I planted last year and this year are so far surviving, and we still have 4 chickens.  I go out 3 times a week to tend the garden and water trees, and the chickens are tended at least  twice a day.

The boyos are getting more TV this summer than they usually get.  With a movie or 2 hours of TV being watched a day.
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The AC guy just came and went.  The capacitor had gone out.  Luckily this was a quick, non-expensive fix.  BUT, there goes any extra money in our account.  It seems like what ever breaks, takes just the right amount of money to fix it.