And the count goes on!!!

Terry and I did a whirlwind day yesterday.  About 9:30 I came to the conclusion that there was something VERY wrong with our fridge.  Our Naples home belongs to Terry (in the same light our St. Paul home belongs to me) so I asked Terry to look at the fridge and see if she felt like I did.  Over the last few days the temp had slowly risen inside the fridge until yesterday it showed 60.  At that temp I could ship things to MN and leave them outside--wait that would not then be a fridge but rather a freezer!  Terry made a call and a repair man would be coming between 2:30-4:00.  That would work out great as we had a lunch date with a friend of Terry's.  Wow, Terry got a call at noon saying the repair man would be here in 20 minutes.  Terry called to cancel our luncheon date.  Then as the guy came around noon she called again to say we were still on.  Before the guy came we talked about what kind of money would we put into repair as it is 12 years old.  We tossed around the figure of maybe several hundred dollars and maybe even a thousand but what fridge repair would be that much??  Well we found out. The diagnosis was a leak of freon in the system AND a repair bill of $1200-1500.  The repair man said if it was his he would not repair it but buy a new one.  So it was off to Lowes where Terry purchased a new one to be delivered tomorrow.  In the mean time there is a block of dry ice which now has it at a temp of 34!  Dry ice, which will last a couple of days, shocked the register at $10+ so that is NOT a long term solution "for sure".  So sometime tomorrow the old goes out and the new comes in--I hope the dry ice lasts that long.

So the list of repairs/new goes on and on.  At this point it stands at:

• late summer a new pump on the pool for $800+
• this fall a fix of the AC for $800+
• this fall a fix of the pool heater under warranty 
• now new fridge for $2100+
• We may need to start asking relatives for loans well not really but what the heck is happening

Funny (not really) I thought 3 strikes and you were out!  Actually there is a question if there has been some electrical things in the area that have caused some or all of this.  That is something we will not know but we did have a surge about a week ago which blew out a pin in the pool timer.  That was pretty strange.

I did not play tennis yesterday but am on for 7:30 this morning.  We have 4 pretty good guys (😊that actually includes me!) so it should be fun.  Karl and I have a bit of a dilemma in that we want to include everyone in our playing time yet it is really good to play against players better than us.  I would like to say that is hard to find but I dare not lie!  There are a couple of players who often want to schedule courts with us and they play at a different level, lower.  It is always a balancing act to get better yet have everyone play.

Not sure if Terry has any plans for today.  She may need to get some more library books as she finished her book a few days ago.  I am currently reading a WWII book.

No it was a quick frozen breakfast sandwich this morning and now, after the FP is finished, it is on the bike to get to the court by 7:30.