Things are both up and down at the house right now. On the upside the air conditioner is all but fixed. We were only without AC for a few hours on Monday but it felt like forever.

We have a builder coming to give us an estimate on replacing the board that the unit is sitting on, that’s the biggest headache, how we’re going to come up with the money for him to do that — but we need to do it so the unit doesn’t get more damaged. I’m not sure how long we’ll be without AC will he fixes that either, but I keep reminding myself this will be worth it in the long run, and at least it’s not the height of summer, even if it is pretty warm right now.

The trees have become secondary to everything else. We’re looking into shopping for extra tiles at Habitat for Humanity which is a place that my therapist suggested. Other than that we’re going to see about getting broken boxes from the local hardware store, but that’s going to come after we find out how much it’s going to be to replace the chipboard. We can survive with bare concrete for a while, not losing the AC unit is the main issue.