Way back in January, Dar spotted a portable air conditioner unit at our local Home Depot. And January is great time to find a good deal on an air conditioner. It was up on a shelf, covered in dust, so she calls me and asks if we could use one of these units in the bus. “How much?”, I ask. “Clearance price is $300,” says she. “Sure!,” say I. When Dar gets home, she informs me that she got it for half off of that price, since it was obviously a used floor model unit when they got the box down, and she talked them into a serious price reduction.

This portable air conditioner unit, like most others I’ve seen, is on wheels, has a reservoir for collecting the condensate, and a rather large diameter hose for exhausting hot air out of a window or more permanent fitting. Our unit is rated for 10,000 BTU, has three fan speeds, and even a dedicated dehumidify-only mode (which we surely don’t need here in the “high desert” of Colorado, but could have used it on more than one occasion whilst beach camping).

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On our last trip last fall, something went very, very wrong in our right rear axle of our bus conversion. There was grease leaking into the brake drum, rendering it useless… which is a really big deal when it comes time to stopping a 25,000 pound vehicle. The rear brakes on a two-axle coach like ours provides something like 70% of the stopping power of the brake system. So losing one side of the 70% percent makes for a very dangerous condition. I was able to limp the bus home from Texas last November, and by the grace of the Good Lord, we didn’t kill anyone or ourselves, nor even have any close calls with stops.

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Caden is on the Red Sox this year… so his Yankee hat from last year will likely never be worn this season. He’s still in coach-pitch league, but is more-than-ready to move up to kid pitch next year.

He’s a very “heads up” ballplayer, aware more than most kids about baserunners and the rules of the game. He’s never been one to kick the dirt around during gametime… or in life, for that matter.

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For the past few weeks, I’ve been involved with a few projects. The coolest ones involved interviewing one of our dearest “old” friends, Scott Kennedy, and working with his daughter Natalie on a dance piece for a Christian conference hosted at our church.

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