Sunday dinner on a Friday night.......

 I just put a chicken in the oven.........with potatoes, onions and carrot.  It's a good time to post while it's cooking.  It would have been prettier to take a picture after it cooked but I have to do things when I have the time and before I run out of steam!

As you can tell I made it through Laura just fine.....she arrived last night after I was asleep.  The weather radio did go off once for a tornado watch and I woke  up once more with the sounds of the rain beating against the window which isn't easy as I have large eaves.  My real troubles came the night before when I was woken up by what sounded like a helicopter about to crash into my house.  Now, granted, I had been sound asleep but as I listened I realized it was the AC unit in the basement.  I turned off the ac and it stopped.  I went down to the basement, careful to close the door behind me because Miss Peeps is down there at night and I didn't want her upstairs...she makes it difficult to sleep.  I checked the unit and there was no fire so I came back upstairs and closed the door behind me and tried turning the AC back on but the noise it made was horrendous!  I knew I would have to do without it until I could call someone in the morning.   Meanwhile, I wanted to go back downstairs and check on Miss Peeps as I didn't see her when I was down there.  I couldn't open the door!  I tried and tried but the doorknob wouldn't work.  I went back to bed and had a hard time getting back to sleep thinking that just a few minutes before I had gone down to the basement and closed that very door behind me.  If it would have happened when I tried to come back upstairs I would have been locked in the basement!!!  That would have really been a predicament.  God was looking out for me for sure!  I wondered how I could call the HVAC people when they couldn't get to the unit because of the door?  Would I have to call a carpenter first to fix the door?  When I got up yesterday morning I took the door knob off and I could see there was a piece of plastic that was broken.  I googled it but in order to get the latch to move it said I needed a set of hex keys....really?  So, I called the HVAC people and explained the situation and he said not to worry and that they would take care of the door situation also.  PTL!!!  I was so relieved!  Plus, they said they would wear a mask and I told them I would wear one too.  It was a long day as it was the blower that went out.  He got the door open but I need a new doorknob which is fine.  He had to go back to Evening Shade and get another blower motor and then he came back and by 3:00 p.m. I had AC again.  It was cloudy and cooler yesterday so it never bothered me without AC.   I felt very blessed and grateful for many things yesterday!  I hope you are safe and well and feeling blessed too!  I'll try and catch up with you all tomorrow!

P.S.  I told the grandboys to save their allowance so they could get Grandma a Life Alert for Christmas! LOL!

Happy Trails!!!