The "feels like" temperature hit 104 degrees both Saturday and Sunday. The actual highs/lows were 91/76 and 92/73. Monday the "feels like" temperature hit 101 degrees, while the actuals were 92/75. Today (Tuesday) I didn't check the "feels like" temperature, the actual high was 91 degrees. Last nights low was 77 degrees. The average high/lows for Coldwater this time of year are 80/58. The rest of our stay here the highs are supposed to be in the high 80's and the lows in the low 70's. There is also a significant chance of rain every day.
In order to distract Mom from her constant rounds of repeated questions we drive her around some to distract her. Yesterday we drove through a huge solar farm that is under construction near where her brother used to live. Where complete the "farm" is supposed to encompass 1,500 acres. Close to 1,000 acres of it look like it could be in service.
Mom has had a Culligan water dispenser for at least 3 years, one that uses 5 gallon jugs for a supply and dispenses both hot and cold water. Mom, and my grandmother before her, drink a lot of coffee. (I think to get around the nasty taste of the well water.) Kathy had shown Mom how to use the hot water dispenser to make instant coffee, after we realized that Mom could no longer remember how to use a standard coffee maker. A lady from the Senior Center, she comes out and spends several hours with Mom one day a week, mentioned to me that the hot water heating part of the dispenser had failed. Mom rents it from Culligan. I called them and they said they would swap it out when they next came out (they also keep her water softener filled with salt) or I could bring it in and swap it. I put a full bottle on the new one and plugged it in yesterday morning. Later in the day I checked it. The cold water dispenser was fine the second tap only dispensed room temperature, not hot, water. I called Culligan and they tried to tell me that Mom's old unit never dispensed hot water. They needed to charge more for one that dispensed hot water. I will talk to my brother when he gets back and we will probably just buy a unit that dispenses both hot and cold water.
Kathy took Mom to Edon, Ohio this afternoon for a fund raising dinner at a church one of her sisters attends. Two of Kathy's sisters put on a monthly(?) dinner and the proceeds go for Missions. I think I have a touch of food poisoning and I'm staying home.
With the high temperatures staying in the upper 80's and the lows staying in the 70's we will stay at the Fairgrounds and not move the coach back to Mom's. Hopefully we will head back to Missouri Sunday.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He had blessed me.
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