Living Large In Our Little House

The first of the week was warm, almost too warm here at Our Little House, but then the rains came and so did the cooler temps.

Yesterday, I went to get into the tub to take a hot bath, some­thing that relaxes me and also warms me when I get chilled.

Only this one was not hot, it wasn’t even warm.

Really, there’s almost noth­ing worse than sit­ting in the buff in a tub fill­ing with cold water.

On Tuesday night, the lights flick­ered dur­ing a storm and Dale later real­ized — when he went to take a hot shower – that the hot water heater breaker had tripped.

He reset the breaker and it heated up for his shower, so we thought it must have been due to the storm.

Apparently, it’s because the hot water tank wasn’t heat­ing properly.

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I posted on our Living Large Facebook page yes­ter­day that we were look­ing into buy­ing a new air con­di­tion­ing unit for Our Little House.

One of our com­mu­nity there wrote: “You don’t need air!”

She thought we are in Canada.

Nope. We do need air to sur­vive these dread­fully hot and humid south­ern summers.

It’s hard to believe it is March 20 and we’re already think­ing about air con­di­tion­ing. There’s been a cou­ple of days when I’ve thought about turn­ing it on.

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The Belle Writers Studio in the early morn­ing mist

I started mak­ing my list for spring clean­ing yesterday.

After all, when it feels like sum­mer out­side, I feel like I’m run­ning behind.

Dale actu­ally began the spring clean­ing two weeks ago. I was work­ing one week­end day, so I took the dogs over to The Belle Writer’s Studio so he could pull out the stove and fridge and vac­uum the top of the cabinets.

He also came home from work the other day and cleaned the ceil­ing fans, as it was hot and we needed them.

My list is still pretty long:

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I posted on Living Large’s Facebook page on Sunday morn­ing that Dale didn’t pick up the remote on Sunday morn­ing and instead, kept the house nice and quiet while we both read.

While I do not like the tele­vi­sion blar­ing 24/7, I’m not anti-TV. I think there are some good edu­ca­tional, as well as enter­tain­ing programs.

Not many, but Dale and I have favorites we watch together.

Sometimes, if I’m pay­ing atten­tion, I can learn from the enter­tain­ing shows too.

Take “Criminal Minds,” for example.

We watched an episode last week we had DVR'd (as we do most pro­grams to be able to fast for­ward through the ads) and two of my favorite actors, Kathy Baker, who starred in the 1990s  series “Picket Fences” and William Russ, who played in the 1980s series, “Wiseguy.”

The two played (bad) par­ents try­ing to appease their son who was par­a­lyzed in a car accident.

Little did I know, Kathy Baker would be open­ing up a cook­ing mys­tery that has bog­gled my mind for a cou­ple of years.

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