Saturdays are for resting, relaxing, and grilling out with friends. ~ Well, that is what normal people do anyway.
At our house on Saturdays, we work on our house. Lucky us...
Today we are working on the freakishly large space experiment that is currently taking up the entire back of our house.
I still can't help but laugh every time I see it. It is quite ugly. and large. and shiny. But I love it. (I actually look skinny next to it.) We live in Texas so I NEED it. It just might be my BFF.
It is our Air conditioning unit and I loveeeee me some air conditioning!
I know what you are thinking? "HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?" Well, I have one word for you...
WES!
Wes is what happened. This was his bright idea. He wanted an outside AC unit and he sold me on the idea. His pitch went something like this:
Reason # 1~ It wouldn't take up any room in the house.
Reason #2 ~ We could use the space upstairs to build a closet for the kids.
Reason #3 ~ We will never have to worry about it leaking in the attic and dealing with the after effects of that whole mess! ( Um... we don't have an attic but that was a good selling point honey.)
Reason #4 ~ The ac tubes will only be about 12 inches in diameter and they will run along the inside wall which we will be able to hide with window seats.
Reason #5 ~ His dreamy baby blue eyes. He just COMPELLED me to agree with him.
I reluctantly agreed. Don't judge me... I vowed to OBEY 18 years ago.
Let me just tell you, I forgot the love and honor part of those vows the day the AC people pulled out of our driveway. I excitedly ran to the back of the house to see our new unit and was hit in the face with a HUGE space experiment (I am talking NASA worthy) attached to the back of our house. It was shocking to say the least. SHOCKING! I screamed in fear.
Don't worry ~ we can hide it! Wes said.
I think that is starting to become our mantra around here... Don't worry, we can hide it!
No, that is not a "little person" up on that scaffolding. Can you understand how massive this is? Look how small his head looks in comparison to that bright, shiny, silver tubing. (Doesn't he have a perfectly round shaped head?) Well that was 1 1/2 years ago and we are finally going to hide it. I think it took Wes this long to figure out a way to fix it.
So hopefully... in the next few days... I will have new pictures. And hopefully, in the next few months, I will forgive Wes for this, this... problem.
AND better yet, hopefully, in the next few years, I will learn to stop listening to Wes when he has a new bright idea! Hopefully...
I will have to get some vervain to protect me from those baby blues!
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