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Anna and I are both making extra effort to rejoin the blog-o-sphere.  The frequency of our writing diminished quite drastically over the past couple of years as the business of life engulfed us.  Having a busy life is good but we both want to maintain the things we enjoy and writing being one of them. 

In an effort to motivate us we have moved our blogs to a easier to manage and maintain site and also made some site changes.  Our old site, www.needssalt.net is going to be retired and will be replaced by our own domains.  I have dropped a 's' and can now be found at www.needsalt.net and we have purchased www.annabland.com for Anna's blog.  We have forwarded the old site to come to my site and we both have links on our sites that direct to each other's site.

Ok, enough of that boring stuff.  Air conditioning.  When spring comes around we seem to get it into our heads that air conditioning is for wimps.  We make well intentioned statements of using air conditioning sparingly, and we do this during the coolness of spring as if we've forgotten the twenty something other Iowa summers we've lived through and believe humidity to be something confined to the bathroom after a shower.

This past December we purchased our first home which had, among other things, a delapidated air conditioner.  When purchasing the house in the middle of December the idea of needing air conditioning seemed silly (again we seemed to have forgotten about this whole summer thing).  Well as summer starting to rear its ugly  head we had our old klunker air conditioner serviced and found the freon to be empty and were warned of a possible freon leak.  And by warned, I mean to say we were told, "hey you have a freon leak."  How big of a leak?  Big enough to drain the freon after only a few weeks.