Thank goodness for the Internet; grateful for Google!! Without a soul to assist me, I searched for an answer regarding the sale of my trailer home. I “listed” with what appears to be an aggressive business. I’ll let the reader know how things progress. ~~~~ At least this “one small step” was sitting down at the computer. Earlier today, my walking and lifting left me so tired I could hardly walk to the dining room for lunch. (Delicious lunch; the meals are very good!)

I dread tomorrow!! Good news: I have cleaning people scheduled to clean my trailer home. Bad news: The weather is so miserably hot and I suspect I’ll be “hanging out” in the carport. There are projects I can do in the yard and carport so my time won’t be wasted–just HOT.

Two sources: Indoor/outdoor thermometer sensor and old-fashioned thermometer sitting on the floor of the balcony. If eggs weren’t so expensive, I might try to fry an egg on the balcony.

It isn’t seven o’clock in the morning and I’m already exhausted. I emptied two crates of bathroom items—but nothing more. If I could fall asleep, I’d go back to bed. ~~ I’m on that proverbial “sky hook” again as I try to (1) arrange for a buyer for my trailer home, (2) a cleaning crew to make the trailer home spic and span, (3) an antique dealer for collectibles, and (4) a new home for the bottle bushes and bottle trees.

POSTSCRIPT @ 8:25 AM and 11:20 AM: Another very hot day but I’ll be indoors with A/C. Honest truth: The thermometer is in the sunshine and contributes to the high temperature. Later: I did a little “engineering” by adding batteries to the temperature sensor, clock, and TV remote. Eighty degrees inside my apartment before I moved the sensor to the balcony.

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POSTSCRIPT @ 4:50 PM: I am so grateful that my apartment windows, and balcony, do not face West. OMG, those apartments must be hot as an oven.

Old lady Lorraine was desperate to arrive at a small measure of organization. Things were heavy and it was hot in the bedroom but despite “hot and heavy” old lady Lorraine got it done!! Now I can move things from the living room, and bathroom, into the bedroom, and my apartment won’t appear so cluttered. Confession: I was desperate to locate the box with panties and bras. The box was buried under many other boxes. Soon I can organize my wardrobe. HALLELUJAH!!

POSTSCRIPT @ 5:00 PM: After I rested for a while, I moved things from the living room and entry. Now it is a matter of unpacking some of the boxes and putting things in the appropriate place. I have a box ready for things as a donation to Goodwill.

For the reader’s convenience, I’ve changed the time and date for the following three blog messages. I’ve taken very few pictures during the past few days. After the evening meal, yesterday, I took another load of things from my KIA to the apartment.

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Quoting from an earlier message: “You will not believe the events on Friday, June 16th—but every word is true. At 4:30 in the morning, the fire alarm went off. It is a horrible loud screeching sound and it continued for an extremely long period of time. I rushed to my door, and the corridor, to see what was happening. I met (for the first time) a couple of neighbors who were standing in their doorway. ‘Oh this happens all the time’  was the message. I went back to bed…”

Another quote from an earlier message: “I’ll ‘fast forward’ to the late afternoon when we had a monster rainstorm with enormous bolts of lightning close to our building. First, we lost the TV signal, and minutes later we lost electricity. My apartment became very hot, very quickly because no A/C. I checked the corridor and neighbors were standing, or sitting, in their doorway because the corridor had lights and A/C. I heard voices in the lobby area so limped down the stairs and joined the group. When folks headed back to their apartment, I too, headed to mine and went to bed. (Climbed the stairs for the second time…)  Before ‘bed,’ I opened the door to the balcony, and the storm door, and propped them open so I had cool air inside my apartment. The power came on about midnight—but no TV. I haven’t heard details on TV news but I suspect it was an area-wide power failure.”