May 19-25, 2019

Weather | 5/19, 61°, 69° | 5/20, 44°, 55° | 5/21, 1.65" rain, 41°, 53° | 5/22, 0.45" rain, 51°, 75° | 5/23, 61°, 75° | 5/24, 0.18" rain, 65°, 85° | 5/25, 61°, 75° |

• Sunday (5/19): Worked a 9am to 7:30pm shift. Took 2 lunch breaks. Have 6 dog training classes on Sundays, now...with a long shift, it makes for a very long day.
• Monday (5/20): Went to work early and bought an 8,000 BTU air conditioner from Menards. Added a 2pm dog training class with a 5-year old great dane/boxer female called Rabbit. It's a high-strung mess. While petting it, the dog took a swipe at me, grazing my right cheek with her canine teeth. My positive dog training wasn't positive at that point. Fortunately, the owner was fine after I swatted her on the rump, grabbed her snout, waved my finger into her face and told her that's enough! She laid flat on the floor for a good 5 minutes after that. Don't know how well that dog is trainable. Mary washed sheets, towels, and furniture covers, but with oncoming dark clouds, ended up drying them inside.
• Tuesday (5/22): I installed the new AC into the west window of the living room. With 2 ACs on the first floor, and one of them larger capacity, we can stay plenty cool during the heat of the summer. The new AC came with closed-cell foam boards that I installed outside of the window over the side plastic curtains that come with the AC, to shed water away from the sides of the unit. This stuff also blocks light, so nighttime bugs stay away. I looked it up online. Might buy some of this stuff in the future for AC installations.
• Wednesday (5/23): Worked today. Went in early and bought a 10' section of vinyl rain gutter, plus brackets, to put in above the north window 1st floor AC. Herman never put any rain gutter on when he built that addition, so water drips right onto the outside cover of the AC. Also, picked up some items at Sam's Club. Mary washed clothes.
• Thursday (5/24): Went in early to work and bought food items at Walmart and Aldi. Had only 1 dog training class...pet parent of other class has a daughter in softball and couldn't make it. 
• Friday (5/25): Put tin foil with aluminum duct tape on outside of curtains along sides of downstairs north AC as a way to keep out rain and bugs. Disassembled, cleaned, assembled, and installed the final AC in upstairs north bedroom window. Did the tin foil, aluminum tape job on this AC, too. Bill showed up around 9 pm. Talked and watched a movie of his choice, Men in Tights, by Mel Brooks.
• Saturday (5/26): We had a weinie roast with Bill. Stormed hard in the evening and rained and rained and rained.