Originally Posted By LVBelle This weekend has been AWFUL! Friday night our air went out and we woke up to a miserably warm house. Our home warranty program isn't able to get someone out until Monday! We spent last night at my inlaw's house but they're moving so it was hectic and we didn't get good sleep. Yesterday morning I went to run an errand for just about 15 minutes, when I came back our dog Maggie had been sick. There was yuckiness all over our living room carpet. Without the air going, the smell is still lingering. Worst of all, yesterday I looked down and realized that the diamond came off of my wedding ring! Completely gone. It wasn't big or very valuable financially but the sentimental value is, of course, huge. This is not how I envisioned spending the long weekend!
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I'm so sorry!! It's hot here too, but not so hot 'cause we're at 5000ft. (Of course living at 5000 feet means our house doesn't even HAVE air conditioning!) So, it's 85 in the house here, YUK!
Originally Posted By smedley I'm sorry LVBelle, I hope the rest of the weekend improves, and that the diamond reappears somewhere (I've had this happen to me)
Originally Posted By beamerdog Oh my! Hope that air is repaired very soon. {{{{LVBelle and family}}}}
Originally Posted By RAM1984 You have really been through the wringer. I am sorry and hope things improve. I do know about the heat thing. I got up in the middle of the night Thurday to hear the cooler motor grinding and no air coming out. (I was freaked out that it could have caused a fire if I hadn't gotten up.) So instead of what I had planned for Friday, DH had to get and install a new motor. Good luck to you and yours. I hope Maggie is okay.
Originally Posted By nevadarebel oh Lvbelle, I am so sorry for you with it being this hot. If you need a place to stay, please let me know, you are welcome to crash out our house. I lost the diamond in my original wedding set about 2 years after we were married. I was devastated as I am sure you are for the same sentimental reasons but I wore it anyway, I just could not part with it. On our 10 year anniversary, my husband surprised me with a brand new set that I love.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon It has been so hot! On another thread I had mentioned that it has been such a mild summer this year but that I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak, well...it has! Several triple digit days in a row. Ugh! But we do, fortunately, have air conditioning. I am so sorry to hear that yours isn't working. I dread the thought of that. I, too, have lost the diamond in my wedding ring several years ago. I checked every single place I could recall being since the last time I'd seen it still in place. I even called the pizza parlor where I'd had lunch to please be on the lookout for it. I put a nylon over the hose end of our vacuum cleaner and went over the carpet with that but had no luck. I swept every square inch of the kitchen and dining area and dug through every particle in that dustpan. Lo and behold I found it...right there in amongst all that dust! Upside down it didn't even look like anything much. But turned over it was the most beautiful sight in the world to me! I wish you all the luck in finding yours!
Originally Posted By murfsmom right now it's 89 and it's almost 10:30pm, but we do have air, so i can't copmplain, but last fri. the power was off for almost 7 hours and it was 109 !! yet the power was on at our machine shop 3 blocks away, so we packed up our cat and all his stuff and took him to the shop, he had a big room all to himself upstairs, i was scared to leave him home ! we had a pet rat that died from the house being to hot ! yes i said pet rat, we inherited along with my my younger brother and sisters when my parents died(long story) and i lost my ring at a nursery when we were looking for a christmas tree, we were pretty sure thats when it happend, i knew with the dirt and mudd and sawdust we would never find it, we went back and looked and some of the kids that worked there helped us but no luck, the nursery said they would look after christmas but we didn't think any thing of it and 2 day after christmas, one of the kids called and said he found my ring !! he volunteered to clean out the section himself and used a really small rake and sure enough he found it, needless to to say he got a big reward , which he refused to take so as we were leaving we asked the manager where the kid parked and we stuffed the envelope in his window !!!
Originally Posted By LVBelle Thanks everyone! We're been crashing at my in law's new house but luckily my husband is at our house with a mechanic right now! Hopefully we'll be back home in a few hours! I got my ring fixed yesterday. My mom reminded me that I had a pair of diamond earrings that belonged to the great grandmother that I was named after. My ears are too sensitive for earrings anymore so we used one of them to fix my ring. It looks beautiful! The diamond is slightly bigger than my old one but the new setting looks almost identical. I'm very pleased with it!
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon What a great story about your ring murfsmon! There are still wonderful people in this world who will take time out to help others. It probably meant little to him but he knew how much it meant to you and that makes it all the more precious.
Originally Posted By wa6oqc Now that things are settleing down I sure hope your dog Maggie is feeling better!
