heat and cooler!

well, it finally got to me, this heatwave we are having.  so, first it was turn on  that butterfly valve and see if the line holds or there is water spraying all over the place.  no leaks.  good, then it's off to good old home depot again for a new filter.  of course i didn't measure first - i've  done this every year, don't need to measure!  well, this year they are fully stocked, which meant i actually had to choose which size.  duh, could not remember, but decided the 22"x24" might not work and since the 24"x30" was the same price - and looked like what i always get and cut to fit - that was the clear winner.  (i think mine is more like 24x24, as it turns out - just slightly less)
so there it is, 'humming' away.  we shall see.  the car therm was reading 107 on the way over there.  that means i could get it all the way down to 87 in here.  smelling a little funny from the new filter - "syzzle" - ok, i'm sure that's not how you spell it ^_^ - looks like straw all woven together.  i tried a plastic "reuseable" one once - didn't seem to work as well.  and do you think I"M gonna go thru all the trouble of cleaning the dang thing when this one cost all of $2.85?  not likely.  i'm just hoping there's nothing deadly in the unit 'housing' itself, cause i surely didn't do any cleaning of it.  (as in some kind of poisonous mold). 
i will need to check outside every now and then.  did this one year and later found i had been watering the area in front.  and fixing that was a real exercise in futility!  i had extra line, so just cut out the bad spot and installed a connecting fitting.  yes, it did spring another leak, and then another.  yes, i did have to go buy more plastic tubing - twice - bought the wrong kind the first time.  the clear stuff is a smaller inner diameter and those fittings won't fit!  live and learn.
  i'm not sure, but i think i thought that by the time i got to be this age someone else would be handling this sort of stuff.  no idea just WHO i thought that might be??  i think that requires some sort of 'relationship' ?  and that is an area way outside my expertise. ^_^  not to mention comfort zone!
cn i find a picture to brighten this up?  just for fun.  oh, before i go check - one of the deer was back today, a female.  she didn't bolt as i stood and talked with her thru the (lovely new) screen.  and she didn't eat the flowers.  munched on fallen plums - so while i was out there before, i shook more off for her. (them?)  there's way too many on those trees anyway.  as well as on that apple tree.  did i mention i live in eden? ^_^
ok, so that doesn't look like eden to you, perhaps - but hidden here in the middle of 'town' and completely private - feels like it to me. ^_^  and this was last year, i think.  for sure before the latest cleanup and hot water heater fiasco.  and before that chair you can hardly see was neon yellow! ^_^

love and beauty