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As we were driving back from the hardware store where we purchased yet more materials for the front porch, we saw this on someone’s front lawn and the husband was so enamored… he pulled into their driveway for a picture.

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Bizarre yet wonderful.

Also on the way home?

He stopped for a pie.

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The husband loves pie. And even after complaining vociferously about the growing cost of our renovation projects… purchased a blueberry for $30.

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Yes.

I completely believe that’s real natural beauty.

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Sounds like my kind of beer.

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I’d never seen this before and thought it was clever.

My husband scoffed and said, “That’s a swamp cooler. Where have you been?”

Not in a swamp apparently.

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The husband’s truck is in the shop… again. He loves that old relic but I swear it spends as much time at the repair shop as it does on the road. Thankfully our mechanic is an old friend and treats us right.

He also has a sense of humor.

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52 thoughts on “Random ramblings..”

  1. We had swamp coolers in El Paso. The water would flow through a “pad” and evaporate, cooling the house by about fifteen degree. Pretty effective in dry areas.

    I draw the line as a thirty dollar pie.

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    2. We have too much humidity up here… I’m afraid the swamp cooler would just make our living room feel swampy.
      And yes, $30 was too rich for my blood as well. Especially since our own blueberries are ripening in the backyard as we speak.

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    3. What?!? You lived in my hometown? Well, a small majority of people here are still using swamp coolers, like me. Because a lot of people are switching to refrigerated air, like my son. I mean it’s a huge difference in the way they cool, but also in the utility bills as well if you don’t have solar panels to offset the difference.

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      2. Well it’s so hot now that even the breeze is hot air, lol. I still have a swamp cooler because it’s expensive to convert and right now there are no funds for that. I live near the mountain on the NE side. In the Fall is when it’s cooler and winds are stronger because I live so close to the mountain.

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      4. Well, I suppose I could but my house is 1700 sq feet and I would need a window unit for every room. I have 4 bedrooms and would need one unit for every bedroom and for the living and tv room areas too, that would get expensive. The Master Cool unit I have cools down my house pretty well. Since I’m not having issues with it currently, I’m hesitant to convert to refrigerated air like my son. His house is always a cool 67 degrees during the summer and that’s just lovely unless he has issues with it. But for now I’m okay with the giant Master Cool. Unless it’s humid, then it just makes the humidity worse, lol.

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      5. Our house is 2,000 sq feet, we have one window unit in the living room which cools that, the kitchen and breakfast nook. Another one in our bedroom. If I keep them running the house stays pretty cool. Not as good as central air, but livable.
        I’d never heard of your type of unit… had to look it up. Says it’s better in dry climates so that lets us out.

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      6. It’s funny that we take for granted brands and products that we assume are nationwide. Like Master Cool units and 3 liter bottles of soft drinks, which were a big deal here in Texas until a couple of years ago. It’s much cooler but more humid in your neck of the woods I’m thinking. It’s dry, very dry and hotter than hell hear so evaporative coolers work so much better here in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. But, refrigerated air is a big thing here now, but it’s too expensive for me at the moment.

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  2. We discovered “Betty’s Pies” up in Minnesota last week, an institution since 1956. We ate so much pie! I believe their whole pies were at least $30. Seems like a crazy high price, but we just bought individual pieces. Lots of them.

    I like your mechanic’s sign!

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  7. I would have had to stop and stare a bit more as well. It is wonderful and not something that I would expect on the the front lawn.

    I love that sign at the end. Made me smile.

    I agree about the pie. I couldn’t pay that no matter how much the pie being nice.

    If I had been at the back of that truck, I would have been laughing after reading what it says. It’s a catchy slogan too.

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      1. Plenty of blueberry pies with that amount of blueberry bushes. That’s if you don’t have to compete with anything else when they are ready.

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  8. Seasonal pie, yes! Like the progression of perennial blooms, pies mark the seasons. Peach-blueberry is a favorite for this season. Strawberry-rhubarb has come and gone; though this year I’m getting a really long rhubarb season, strawberries are pretty short here. I’ve never tried cranberries in a pie.

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  11. I’ll weigh in on the cost of the pie . . .

    I’m assuming the pie offered up at least 6 generous slices. At $5 a slice, that’s about half the price or ordering dessert at a restaurant. Not too bad, especially since you don’t have to add a tip for serving yourself. And you can add a scoop of ice cream for much less than ordering pie a la mode while eating out.

    Also, Wild Maine blueberries take time to pick because they are small ~ a much slower quart to pick than peaches or strawberry or rhubarb. So the price reflects the cost of labor for the pickers.

    BUT . . . I would have waited a week for River to make me a pie from the berries in her own backyard. 😀

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