Weekends

We had a great weekend. It was nice to have the family together. We spent some time on the beach, cooked out, ate supper at Cafe Loco last night, and just generally had a good time. I am quite worn out from it all and am due for some time to myself. Desi & Amaya will be here until Sunday and Rene, Nicholas, and Wendy are due here on Friday. After that it will be smooth sailing for a while until our next bout with visitors.

Teresa, our landlady, brought our electric bill yesterday. It was $150. I was astounded. We don't typically use the air conditioner and almost never use the heat. The only thing I can think is that the decrepid refrigerator that runs all the time is eating up the juice. I mentioned to Keisha that if we go out of town for a weekend we need to shut off our power at the breaker box to see if the pizza oven still works. I'm sure we're not paying for that because it must eat megawatts of power rather than kilowatts but still, it seemed terribly high. Even Jeff & Mike's electricity was over $100 and they've not even been there all month. The rate is high here, 8.2¢ per kilowatt hour, which is much higher than in Tennessee. I guess it is comparable to that in Pennsylvania but ah well, we'll just have to deal with it.