Mom called Friday night saying that their air conditioner had quit and they needed to get it fixed. I was a little out if it since I had just returned from a week at youth camp and had only been asleep long enough to hit the deep part of the cycle, but I do know that she escalated into frustration quickly and hung up on me!
I called her back on Saturday morning, and she told me they had the name of someone to call to come look at it. Duane said not to, as the service call would likely be near the replacement cost. We went to Home Depot and picked up a similar unit before heading out to their house, in the event that their unit couldn't be repaired.
Duane looked at the unit and quickly determined that it was cooling, but also noticed that there was some ice. He disconnected it and spent an hour or so cleaning it. When he remounted it, the unit worked fine. (Mom was really disappointed that we wouldn't install the new one, but it didn't make sense to do so!)
I took the opportunity afterwards to share with them a "Pros and Cons" chart I had developed about moving into town, hoping to encourage them to reconsider, since Mom had so vehemently told Suzanne a few weeks ago that they were NOT moving! She took me completely by surprise when she announced that they were definitely moving into town and told me that she had put their names back onto several lists, but that they were mostly interested in Pleasant Heights. I suggested that she and I might go out looking at apartments in a few weeks and go have lunch -- she liked that idea!
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