Air Conditioning is a wonderful thing!

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book covers, hot, no electricity, weather

HOT! HOT! HOT!

So temps here in southeast Tennessee have been over 100 degrees for a  few weeks.  Which means the heat index is even higher.  Yuk!

Well, to make matters worse we had a freak gust storm last Thursday (with no rain, which we really need) and several counties in our area lost power due to trees down on power lines or power lines snapped by the wind.

So around 7pm last Thursday our power flickered a few times then it was gone.  No lights, no water (since we are on a well) and no air conditioner. 😦

So here it is Saturday evening at 10:00pm and our power just came back on 2 hours ago.  Can you say 2 days of MISERABLE???  At least we are lucky enough to have a generator which allowed us to plug up a few necessities like the refrigerator and some fans. (oh and the coffee pot, tv and internet every so often – priorities ya know -HA ).  So we would get things cooled off as much as possible then unhook the generator and move it to the well house so that we could shower, flush the toilets and fill up jugs of water.  Then we unhooked it again and brought it back to the house before it could heat up too much from the fans being off.

By the way, did you know that fans don’t work so well in this hot and humid weather?  It just moves hot air around.  Bleh!

But, I am rejoicing now in the coolness that is finally working its way through our house and the ability to take a cold shower to cool off.  Yay!

I just want to say one thing though.  The electrical linemen that have work out in this horrible weather to get our power restored are due a huge THANK YOU!  They work out there 24/7 to get everyone’s power back up and running and get very little thanks and a whole lot of negative response from people.  They can only work so fast and some of these areas that have to be fixed are very hard to get to.  Yet they do their job and try to ignore the bad attitudes of selfish people.

 I don’t call and complain because it’s possible they may be helping restore power to some poor elderly person’s home that just can’t deal with the high heat or someone with medical problems that needs their electricity to run equipment that could mean the difference between life and death.  I can deal with a little inconvenience so that others can get the help they need.

Hopefully everyone else gets their power restored soon.  I think they said it may be Monday before everyone’s power is completely fixed.

I tried to work on a couple of book covers today but it was just too hot to really concentrate on it without getting a headache.  Maybe I can do some more tomorrow.  Have I said lately how much I love creating book covers?  So much fun and stress relieving.  I wish I could do this full-time.  Sigh….maybe one day.

Hope everyone else has had a good weekend.  Mine is definitely looking better than it started!

Terrible blogger……but new book cover on the way!

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blogging, book covers, busy busy

Ok, so I’m a terrible blogger.  My last post was almost exactly a month ago.  Seeing as how I’m not a “writer” I guess this makes sense.  I can’t always think of what to say.  Sigh…..

But on a good note, I am working on the cover for Lauralynn Elliott’s newest book that will be coming out soon.  She is starting a new series about Libby Fox, a private investigator.  However, not all of Libby’s clients are the run of the mill human type so it should be interesting.  Who knew she would have to extend her office hours past 5pm?  But hey, when some of your clients don’t come out until dark…..a girl has to do what a girl has to do!  🙂

On the home front this is a crazy day!  I am supposed to be in four places at once!  Sure could use a few clones for myself and the family.  Ha!  Our American Cancer Society Relay for Life is over and done with but the wrap-up party is tonight after work.  I’m the team captain so I’m supposed to be there.  However, my son’s school year-end awards ceremony is also tonight, same time.  On top of that my son is supposed to be giving his 4-H demonstration at Regionals tonight in another town….also at the same time.  Then the wife of a former co-worker passed away and I so need to go to the funeral home tonight.  Needless to say, I can only do one.  So since my son wants to do his demonstration and a chance at another 1st place ribbon 🙂 we are going to that.  Someone else on our Relay team is going to the wrap-up for me so that helps there.  I guess the awards my son is supposed to get tonight he can pick them up at school tomorrow and ask for my co-worker I guess a heartfelt sympathy card will have to do for now. 😦

Hopefully it won’t be another month before I post again.  Maybe I can find something interesting to post about soon.  Remember if you need a book cover for your next ebook just let me know!  I’m much better at designing those than writing.  Or if you want someone to brainstorm about a book title I really like to do that too.  Don’t worry you won’t hurt my feelings if you don’t like the titles I come up with.  Depending on how tired I am and how late at night it is I can come up with some real interesting (ie. corny) titles! hahaha!

Later!