A Frickin Frog

So last week, Thursday I think, the weather outlook for today, Monday, was HOT!!!  Well, better check the AC in the Camper Van. Got my App going, turned on the AC and I hear this "Bang, swish, followed by a HUM.  Quickly turn it off. look at Marcia and shrug my shoulders.  Hit the on button again, get an instant HUM.  Must be a Hummer Bummer...the AC is going to need work.  Figured I had maybe 800 hours of use...no more than 900...and it won't work.

First thing I think is that some how a small new growth tree limb must have gotten into the AC cover...and the noise I heard was the fan wrapping the new growth around the fan until it binded to a quick halt.  I called a very good mobile RV repair guy, but that wss Friday,  and it was Mother's Day weekend...left a message.  After getting back from a visit with the grand kids Saturday, I just did not see anything that supported my theory of it being the tree.  CRAP!

Monday (today) I got a hold of Vince, owner of Oliveri RV Mobile Repair.  Says he can make it here around noon, which is GREAT...but it cost $100 for the visit AND $180 per hour.  I agree to it.

At 1 pm Vince shows up, after a call telling me he was running behind. Gets up on the roof, takes cover off AC, and puts his meter on the starter capacitor just to find that it was fine.  He goes over to the fan, which won't turn...he turns it hard the opposite direction, and from my viewpoint on the ground I hear this patter on the RV roof, and I see the fan moving freely.   HUM, he says, never seen this before...it was a mummified FROG!  It was caught between the fan fins and the AC frame.  That is what I heard when I tested it Thursday...the fan hit the mummified frog, which lodged against the AC frame, and then the fan would not work.

 

The frog looked like this, did not get a pic of real frog

$280 to retrieve a Frickin Mummified Frog!!!!  What a Bummer...but we now had AC and that's a great thing!  So where did the frog come from???  Well, I am guessing Egypt...

 

 

Mom's 96th Birthday - Mom Meets Her Latest Great Grandchild

It has been a busy 10 days.  My oldest brother Jim arrived along with wife Carol from San Antonio.  They stayed at Patti's, but we all had two dinners, along with a lunch at Leatherby’s Family Creamery, and, of course, Mom's Birthday Party on Saturday. 

 

 

After lunch, we all enjoyed some of their fine Ice Cream.  Mom is eating a Banana Split, and guess what....she ate it all.  That is Jim and Carol in the picture with her.

 

 Here is Otis Boaz, six months old, nearly 20 pounds.  What a cute boy!

 

Here is mom, my son Michael, and Addie in the distance between them.  Addie is going to be 4 in about 3 months.  She is small for her age, but she is as smart as any 3-4 year old can be.  She is a bit of a free spirit, and not into getting her picture taken much right now.  I have a bunch of pictures of this day...but I forgot to get one with Great Grandma holding Otis...but Mom sure enjoyed the visit.  Too bad that Anna was unable to be there.

Here is the Birthday Girl.  She wanted an Apple Pie with Ice Cream, and that is exactly what she got.  That huge Apple Pie is from Sam's Club, and it was delicious!  

 

 Here are mom's kids, less Bob who did not make it.  From left to right, with order of birth in parenthesis:   Dave (4), Roger (3), Patti (5), Jim (1) and Sandy (6).  Also in attendance was Carol (Jim's wife), Arny (Sandy's husband), Rochelle (Roger's wife) and Marcia (my wife).  We all had a great time...especially Mom.  Monday Jim and Carol headed back to Texas, and I went by to see Mom.  She had a good memory of her Birthday Week.  She remembered that Bob was not there without any hints.  She remembered Otis and Addie, but forgot Michael's name until I said it.  She remembered her Ice Cream at Leatherby's, her Pie and Ice Cream for her Birthday, and had a clear memory of much of the week.  That won't last...but at least she has the memories for a little while.