Lazy day up here in Waco. I woke up sore all over, so we postponed our walk (read here, “canceled for the day”). Instead we watched some episodes of Dude Perfect with Luke and AnnaGrace. Funny human beings, they are. The Dude Perfect guys, I mean. Luke and AnnaGrace can be funny, too, though. Especially when AnnaGrace tells one of her Dad jokes with Luke doing his best to coach her in her delivery. Love it. Oh, and I may or may not have dozed off a mere moment or two during the TV time.
We stumbled upon kind of a perfect/imperfect storm in our grandparents suite. First, the shower started backing up. Josh got out his snake and did his best homeowner attempt, but sadly to no avail. Plumber on the list. Secondly, the air conditioner that feeds the suite (a separate unit from the rest of the house) froze up. Fortunately it happened at night, so with the ceiling fan it wasn’t unbearably hot. AC guy on the list. Now let me hasten to add … the magic bed still has all its wondrous qualities that lead to an incredible night’s sleep. I didn’t wake up until almost seven. Nice.
The repair guys must have coordinated their arrival times. Plumbers arrived first. One of them looked to be about twelve years old. As it turned out, he was the more experienced of the pair, and hence, the boss. Between the two of them (the boss finally took over), using the same tool that Josh did, somehow they were able to send their snake much farther up the line that Josh ever got. They didn’t seem to pull much out, but the clog, whatever it was, cleared. Success number one. Check.
As they were packing up, it started raining. Really raining. Hard. And part of what they packed? Their umbrella. Needless to say … they got wet.
But as they pulled out, the AC guy arrived. He opened the cabinet in the garage and discovered a thick layer of ice covering one of the lines. Froze up, for sure, even with the AC turned off. He turned the fan on, but the condenser off to hasten the melting, and he went off to grab some lunch so, in his words, “I won’t have to charge you for watching the ice melt.”
True to his word, he returned in about 30 minutes. He taped up some places on the air handler in the garage. He also put in two and a half pounds of Freon. His assessment was this:
- The tape will force air to through the filter instead of leaking around it.
- The condenser is now fully charged, so a baseline has been established. He couldn’t check for leaks because of the heavy rain, but he did say, “If you see what looks like a dog peed on the unit, that’s probably leakage.”
Hmm. I guess it is. Unless, of course, a dog actually pees on the unit. Then … confusion. But for now, the room is back to being nice and cool. Check. Thank you to those home maintenance heroes.
The final day of basketball camp went really well. Lots of game-type drills. Of course, as far as the kids were concerned, they were just games. The very last one Josh called “Last Second Hero.” The kids were split into two teams. Three seconds on the clock. One from each team received a pass from a coach and attempted a shot before the buzzer. Quite intense action. Not many made buckets, though. It came down to the last shot. The two head coaches were chosen to go head to head against each other. Coach Josh just needed to make a layup to assure at least a tie. The much-younger Coach Mason needed a three-pointer to gain the tie. Josh’s shot went in. Mason’s just rimmed out. Exciting stuff.
Matthew 5:16 says, In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Father, thanks for the chance to work with those basketball youngsters. Draw them to yourself as they grow. Amen.
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