Memorial Day
Memorial Day - is a day to remember those who have died in our nations service. We all need to remember the past. We're at war. The soldiers in Iraq are fighting every day for our nation. We just gotta remember. The U. S. Memorial Day site has a lot of information.

It's hot outside and we have new windows. This isn't a great combination... well... it hasn't been great. I didn't want to put holes in the new spiffy windows. So, we tried an experiment. Lowes had a DeLonghi portable air conditioner ($499) that seemed like a good experiment - quiet at the store and seemed powerful enough. We got it home and I hooked it up on Saturday (we borrowed back the CRV to move it, and I hooked it up so that we'd be running while we ran around). The thing just didn't work all that well at all. It made vibrating noises and cooled the house down a whole almost no degrees. If you are looking for something that takes up a lot of space, buzzes and vibrates, cools the three feet in front of itself and that's about it - then you need one of these gadgets. We took it back today - even got our money back and everything. The DeLonghi site doesn't mention the model we tried and there were NO reviews of it at all online. We think it was discontinued. Not trying an experiment without looking up reviews anymore!

We ran into someone we knew at Lowes and he said that they just didn't screw in their air conditioner - but it works just fine. I figured we got nothing to loose at this point - so I popped the good old Sears air conditioner into the window, put a couple of pieces of wood at the top to hold the window shut and taped the sucker in. We cleaned her up a little and blamo - working like a champ. It's about 85 degrees outside and we got it down to about 70 degrees inside. Maureen's even started to complain that it was getting too cold. Cool!

I gotta go start up the grill. We're having Cirtrus Swordfish (from Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue book) and corn on the cob. This recipe is great! Buy the book for other great recipes! I'm going to write to the author to see if the recipe can be posted or not. I think it'd be fair use... but I'm going to ask first (the copyright statement says that I should ask).
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