coming to birmingham
March 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
mom I guess you realized we are not going to make it down in March, already being march. Darrell has been busy with Beths house and me at work. They are going to start on our house in a few weeks, I hope it will be done by the time you come up, but I don’t know if it will be, We can’t wait to see you, we love you alot.
12 Responses to “coming to birmingham”
Yes, we thought you were not going to make it. It’s just as well, because Jani is still here, and we still only have one small room to offer. Then we’re going to enter the steamy summer months, when this house is a hot box.
I don’t know exactly when we’re going to go up to Birmingham. Your dad has to have an operation on his knee, and he has to recover from that. Your house may be finished in time. I’m hoping to see Hillary’s baby, and she’s due in May. We told Julie we would probably go around the time of little Ben’s birthday (April 24th). I think I told Crystal on this website somewhere. Nothing is etched in stone.
By mother on Mar 8, 2009
Mom, the house isn’t a hotbox. if you keep telling people that no one will want to come!
By maria on Mar 8, 2009
The solution is very simple, Maria. All we have to do is convince your Dad that he needs to lower the thermostat to less than 78 degrees. You ask Carmen about how hot those two bedrooms are in the summer months! You should know yourself, because you lived in the hottest one. Furthermore, I distinctly remember somebody leaving and checking into a motel because it was too hot in that middle bedroom.
I repeat. Dad just has to lower the thermostat to afford comfort to our visitors, and then he can flip it up to 78 degrees again and burn me up all summer. (except…I do have a cool bedroom to escape to.) So, it isn’t all that bad for me.
I don’t want to scare anybody away. It’s all up to your Dad.
By mother on Mar 8, 2009
i didn’t say those rooms don’t get hot. i just said don’t tell everybody. anyway, you know dad is physically incapable of lowering the thermostat but if SOMEONE ELSE does it he doesn’t stop them or say anything. you guys are all just too chicken to go do it. Bltbltltlblt.
what he should do is put a small window air conditioning unit in the back bedroom that has temmperature control on it then company can use it if they like. The temperature in the rest of the house is always cool. Especially YOUR bedroom.
By maria on Mar 9, 2009
I’ve suggested that before, Maria…about the small unit in the back bedroom. I got no response. Luis…you read these comments. What do you say about a small unit in the back bed-room. Or did you respond…and I forgot what you said? That’s a very good possibility.
As for turning the thermostat down..I do it all the time, and get fussed at for doing it. To ME!! The house is comfortable if the thermostat is on 75 degrees all year around, both in the winter and summer. I have been very cold this winter, and very uncomfortable, and simply told to “put on more clothes”, just as I was told in Birmingham. The temperature in the house has been about 71 degrees most of this winter.
Brenda has already said that they aren’t coming down. I received a package from Beth today, with a note that said they may come during the AEA holidays, which is fine with me.
The house is reasonably comfortable right now.
By mother on Mar 9, 2009
Dad mentioned the trip to Birmingham again today. We still have tentative plans to leave around the 17th, and spend a couple of days in Macon, and then get to Birmingham about the20th or 21st of April. Leave Birmingham, and try to make it to missouri by April 24th in time for little Ben’s birthday. We’re going to miss seeing Hillary’s baby if we stick to these plans. We’re going to Macon, because I have a strong prompting that I need to see my cousin Tom, and his wife, Evelyn, again. He is 88 this year, and she will be 93. They have been in my life ALL of my life. Well, Tom married Evelyn when I was only 12, and she was my mother’s best friend, and I have always loved both of them dearly.
By mother on Mar 9, 2009
you would definately freeze in my house. I keep the temparture around 60-65 all year!
By lainie on Mar 10, 2009
You MURDERED Brenda’s sweet little bird, Lainie. She came home from work and found a clump of ice in the bottom of the cage with feathers stuck to it!!
By mother on Mar 10, 2009
Yes, I think your house would be a bit too cold for me.
By mother on Mar 10, 2009
i was thinking about that the other day, because Casey was trying to talk me into buying a bearded dragon, and they have to stay warm all the time and I think it would die in my house.
By lainie on Mar 11, 2009
Wouldn’t the dragon be able to warm himself up with his own fire-breathing apparatus?? Or are you talking about the name of a tropical bird?
By mother on Mar 11, 2009
Hey Lainie, last summer at the reunion we needed to find you to go to dinner. I wasn’t sure which hotel room was yours. As I passed the rooms I felt the doors, I knocked on the coldest one and sure enough you answered!
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By beth on Mar 30, 2009