Just like old times - I am blogging from the road! I am in Milwaukee, Wisconsin right now, tagging along while Brad works and I get to play! He is a visiting professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and was chosen to give the Al McGuire Memorial Lecture at the Children's Hospital. Mr Big Pants! It was well deserved and I know he is knocking them dead! Mostly my job on this trip seems to be sleeping in, playing during the daytime and getting to go to dinner with everyone each night! THIS I could get used to!
Meanwhile, back at the house .........
It's nice to have the weather cool off and the windows open. The electric meter is still spinning wildly but we are working on it. Westar came out on Tuesday - even though they were hesitant and told me that they had no record of a second meter on my house and it probably wasn't theirs! Guess what? It was!! Sure threw them for a loop! A very nice young lady was the one who came to the house and we did some sleuthing (okay, mostly it was sleuthing I had already done, but I will let her share some credit since she did make a lot of phone calls to the bosses while she was there). Turns out that 30-40 years ago sometimes people had a meter installed just to follow consumption of one particular thing. In this case, it is my irrigation well! It only turns when the sprinklers are running. At first she told me she was going to have to put a new meter on it and register it so all I could think of was "Well S!@%#! Now my bill will be even HIGHER!" So she did but before she left she got a call back and apparently it already shows on the bill so they told her to put the old one back on. She was not qualified to work on my "big ass" meter as it was larger than she is certified for, so we had to set up an appointment for a different service person to come for that. I wanted to be there, so that is scheduled for Monday. According to her, they should be able to check everything from the meter all the way back to the transformer, so MAYBE we can either find the trouble or rule some things out! Progress!
And oddly enough, we did get the 3rd electric bill and I never thought in my life I would be happy to see that amount on on a bill, but it was actually a fair amount lower than the last one and it was hot all of August! I guess my energy Nazi ways made a difference! Now I just need to get to the point where I feel like I can turn on any light I want in my own house!
The pool is getting closed for the season next week supposedly. Hooray! It has had so many issues right now that it will be a welcome relief. Right now it's just an energy sucking, poorly functioning leaf catcher! We will deal with it in the spring .............
My nephew sent me the bill for the dumpster that sat in my driveway and carted off all of the old planter box and dirt and rock....... once again we are recording setting and filled it with a weight that I didn't think was possible! One more very large check to write! If I had known it was going to cost that much, I might have figured out a place to use it in the yard somehow! Live and learn!
And in between the chaos that is the house, I try to have a life. Went to my first Medical Alliance meeting, which is basically the wives of area docs from Wichita. HATE these things but the Dean's wife invited me as her guest, so what do you do? It was a fashion show to boot! Oh yeah, you heard me right! Yours truly went to a fashion show!! I survived and made nice and met some nice ladies, but definitely not my cup of tea!
I gave up and decided that if I waited until the house was settled to hire a cleaning lady that it would never happen so have a gal that is doing to start coming every two weeks. I think this will be a good thing but I just hope she is prepared for the mountains of dog hair!!
So now, it's time to shower and get ready to hang out with my oldest sister, who lives about a half hour from Milwaukee, Wren. She is driving up and we are going to spend the day hanging out. Should be fun. No song for today as I can't really think of the best one to do so you are on your own for music this morning!
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