HOPE FOR A CHEAPER SUMMER

 We started May off with me baking Todd an angel food cake for his birthday and meeting them at Texas Roadhouse for lunch on the 4th.  It wasn't busy and we had a great time!

               Texas Roadhouse with Shane, Todd, Milli, LaTia

                          Todd's birthday cake at Texas Roadhouse

We had one meal of fresh peas from the garden and then I had to take the plants out because it was just too hot for them and there were no new flowers.  Something has been eating the leaves off first all the carrots, then the broccoli, then the cauliflower and now the Brussel sprouts so they are history.  However my one cherry tomato plant produced 500 tomatoes and is now dying.  There were 50 green tomatoes but whatever ate the leaves off the other plants ate most of the green tomatoes.  I'm so grateful 'it' didn't find the cherry tomatoes until after I harvested all those ripe tomatoes!  The zucchini plant is huge and has produced 7 zucchini so far.

                 Some of the bounty from my garden

Dawn and Vince took us out to Cracker Barrel for Mother's Day and then a few days later we took Vince and Dawn out to Texas Roadhouse for Vince's birthday.  Todd visited us the day the mini split arrived and that was good timing as he helped Larry unpack it and move it around.  He also gave me a cactus for Mother's Day that has a lovely 'trumpet' flower, something I've never seen before.

            Vince at Texas Roadhouse for his birthday

                                Mother's day gift from Dawn

                                      Us at Cracker Barrel

Trumpet flower on the Mother's day cactus from Todd

                                       Todd visiting on May 15

We made the decision to replace the RV A/C's with a mini  split A/C in the ceiling of the bedroom.  Larry did all the re-working except for the refrigerant which needed to be done by a licensed HVAC fellow.  Larry ran into all kinds of problems but we are praising the Lord for finding some serious mistakes so they are fixed now. 

Inside unit of A/C installed in the ceiling of the bedroom

Outside unit of the mini split A/C on the back of the MH

Larry building the frame for the mini split outside unit

 May 24 the HVAC fellow came out and hooked us up and BOY! what a difference!!   I checked last May one days usage against this year's usage with the new A/C and we used 40 kwh last year and 10 kwh this year!  That will really make a difference on the electric bill!