Lessons from today...

I learned that when driving to a far away location, you should not caravan with an old clunker car. Why you ask? Because, maybe, just maybe in 106 degree weather, the car COULD break down 7 miles away from your destination after traveling 165 miles. I also learned that 106 degree weather feels just like 95 degrees or just like 85 degrees.

I learned that the power company has permission from the State of California to ram people up the booty on power rates during the summer. In addition to this lesson, I found out that the power company blames the state of California for your "base rate usage" - and the state blames the power company for exactly the same thing. Apparently we get something like 19 kilowatts hours alloted per day during the summer and 30 for the winter. This sucks because we do not have a WOOD BURNING AIR CONDITIONER!!!!! So how do we fix it? We boil ALL summer long in a VERY hot house unless we want to pay a $3-$4 hundred dollar a month power bill.

I learned that if Placerville gets to be about 106 degrees during the day, at 10:30pm at night, the weather is still at about a cool 93 degrees. And, for that matter, the ground is still a bit too hot to walk on.

I learned that little blessings come along everyday. For example, when our car broke down 7 miles from our house, a tow truck just "happened" to be passing by and helped us out. Thank God we did not need to stand in the 106 degree weather for more than 20 minutes. As it was, we were already dripping sweat from just standing there. Little blessings are good!