Yee Haw, Hee Haw and so on!

I am certainly not mechanically inclined. In fact, I was close to 17 before I learned how to pump my own gas, much less check my own oil. The area under the hood of any car, especially mine own, is something as fantastical and alien as Wonderland or Hobbitton. I like it that way. Which does have it's disadvantages. (See the first entry called "Idyll") Like seeing a large hose that is apparently connected to nothing but the side wall of the inside of the engine area under the hood. Since it has been this way since I got the car, an old, crappy, Buick impersonator of a rust bucket, it has looked that way. I somehow or other managed to convince myself that this was A/C related and that I had no such cooling in the vehicle. Much to my surpise, and delight, I just today discovered that I was wrong! I have A/C in my car!!! Yay! This is beyond good since the heat index around here has been like 100 degress the past few days. And humid? Oh good goddess! If it were any more humid, it would be raining. Hot diggity damn!

Which it decided to do at about 1:30 this morning. Along with some very brilliant lightening and thunder. This caused the dog to have hysterics, pee in the hallway, and climb into bed with my nearly-sixteen year old son. It also caused me to turn on the hall light so I could see to clean up the urine, which in turn led me to discover that the pet bunny's cage had both doors open and the bunny was MIA. A trail of rabbit pellets led under my daughter's bed, so the mystery was solved quickly, but the rescue took almsot 20 minutes. Between thunder, lightening, and my middle son trying to stalk the poor thing, I almost think the mission should have been postponed until daylight. Once the bunny was properly restored to his enclosure and curtains shut, the storm quit as abruptly as it started. Figures. This left two teenage boys awake until about 5 this morning. But who cares? I have A/C in my POS! The world is once again fragrant and beautiful.