Thankful Thursday

It’s Thankful Thursday hosted by Brian of Brian’s Home. He wants us to post what we’re thankful for.

I think it’s a good thing to do each week. Focus on the positive things in our lives.

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I’m thankful that we have air conditioning. We’re in another heatwave that’s going to last though Saturday evening. Thursday and Friday it’s supposed to get to 107 degrees and Saturday 104 degrees. On Sunday it will drop down to a cool 102 degrees.

I’m thankful that we have regular maintenance on our heater in the fall and our air conditioner in the spring. The HVAC folks will be getting lots of calls from people that don’t do regular maintenance and their poorly maintained system can’t keep up with this horrible heat.

I’m thankful that summer is almost here, but I’m not looking forward to the times where we have triple digit weather for numerous days. It’s a good time to stay inside where it’s cool.

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76 thoughts on “Thankful Thursday

  1. Memories of Eric and Flynn – I started this blog to show my holiday photos but haven't added to it for so long, but you can see my other holiday photos at https://allatseawithme.blogspot.com My main blog is my cat blog at https://twodevoncats.blogspot.com
    Memories of Eric and Flynn says:

    I can’t even begin to imagine those temperatures! It is 10am and 55F here but when I looked at our weather station the humidity is 99% so I am very glad the temperature is low.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Yes low temperatures is a good thing. We don’t get that kind of humidity though. I was in Texas during the summer one year and my ankles were huge because of the humidity. 🙂

  2. Cleo says:

    Whoa, 107 degrees? My gosh, when it hits in the 80’s here I roast. I can’t even imagine those temps. Glad your system’s running smoothly, and stay inside when it gets that hot!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I think tomorrow is now going to be 108. Goodness. I can remember a summer that the temps got up to 114. It was HOT. 🙂

  3. iannieam – Northwestern Pa
    Ann Thompson says:

    Wow, those are some high temperatures. I guess I’m thankful that it has been in the low 70s here the past several days and it’s been getting quite cool in the evenings

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      What wonderful weather the 70s would be. Cool in the evenings works for me too. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We are staying in until this passes. We’re used to this happening numerous times during the summer months. 🙂

  4. My GBGV Life – Minnesota, USA – I am a GBGV, Grand Basset Griffon Vendeén - enjoying my life and sharing my experiences.
    My GBGV Life says:

    We’ve been in the 90’s for almost 2 weeks with a day or 100. No fun! Our A/C quit last week and Mom panicked. Thankfully we have amazing neighbors around us and one had the same thing happen last year. He got the part and had it up and running again a few hours later. It was already over 80 in the house. A/C is really something to be thankful for.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I’m glad you got your air conditioner back up and running. So important for the humans and for the pups and kitties. 🙂

  5. InvisiblyMe – United Kingdom – Health, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain & Disability Blogger at InvisiblyMe : Live a visible life, whatever your health > ★ www.invisiblyme.com ★ FB/Twitter/Insta : @invisiblymeblog twitter.com/invisiblymeblog instagram.com/invisiblymeblog facebook.com/invisiblymeblog
    Invisibly Me says:

    Wow, that’s scorching! We’ve been very lucky to have a couple of days here of sunny warm weather, which I absolutely adore. Sadly it’s already back to cold and grey and storms are forecast (typical UK!) I can’t quite imagine the type of heat you guys can get over there during heatwaves. Very good job your air condition is in good working order! xx

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I don’t like the very cold or the very hot. It could be 80 degrees out year around and I’d be most happy. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      So great to see you, Marg. I sure miss you. You have a great day too. Zane and I love you. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I know we couldn’t. We live in central California. It’s a desert here. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We do too when it’s this hot. I used to be able to take the heat better than I can now. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We had a neighbor that wouldn’t spend a dime on maintenance and he’s wait until it failed. Often is was way more expensive to fix. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Those are great things to be thankful for. Happy Thursday. 🙂

  6. Kinga K. – Blogger (loveonthebrainbykinga.wordpress.com) | Fanatic of music, books, travels, fashion, sport (Real Madrid & PSG). 📌📍🗺🌎 My instagram : @19kinga_70, Spotify : @19Kinga70, Lubimyczytać : @19kinga_70 🌹🌨 26 years old 🎂 🌍 Location: Katowice, Będzin/ Siewierz (Poland 🇵🇱) E-mail: kingakblog14@gmail.com
    Kinga K. says:

    Air conditioning is awesome ❤

  7. Dakota/Caren/Cody – Michigan – Freelance writer, pet blogging professional, product influencer, half of the writing team behind Dakota's Den and "Cat Chat With Cody & Caren" Most importantly, I am a "pet mom" to Dakota, (Shetland Sheepdog) and Cody (my silver gray tabby!)
    Caren says:

    I heard about the heat out your way, please stay safe! Funny you mentioned the air/heater. I signed up for a program with a HVAC company here for regular Spring and Fall Air conditioner and furnace checks. You are right, sometimes things happen anyway, but doing routine check-ups can prevent a lot! Please stay cool and safe!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      It’s worked for us. We needed coolant this year and I’m sure glad we got it. It’s going to be a hot one until Sunday/Monday. We’re home and staying here. 🙂

  8. The Canadian Cats – Prince George, BC, Canada – I have been married for like AGES and AGES according to Shoko. A whole 47 years. Shoko is my only young'un. Bill and I have lived in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada for 34 years. Gardening is my passion and also Shoko's passion. Bill's passion is being included as a member of Shoko's family.
    The Canadian Cats says:

    I would be very thankful for an A/C if we lived in such a warm climate. Today will be 23C which is 73F. Nice weather and no coat or sweater.

    Jean

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      That’s a bit chilly for me, but where I grew up 70 was mighty warm. Enjoy. 🙂

  9. Bette A. Stevens – Central Maine, USA – "I'm a writer inspired by nature and human nature!" ~ Bette A. Stevens Bette A. Stevens is a retired teacher, a wife, mother of two and grandmother of five. Stevens lives in Central Maine with her husband on their 37-acre farmstead where she enjoys writing, gardening, walking and reveling in the beauty of nature. She advocates for children and childhood literacy and for monarch butterflies, an endangered species. Stevens’s children’s activity book, THE TANGRAM ZOO and WORD PUZZLES TOO! was first published in 1997 by Windswept House Publishing, Mt. Desert, ME; a second edition was self-published by the author in 2012. AMAZING MATILDA , Stevens's second children's book, self-published in 2012, won a 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (Honorable Mention for Excellence in Children's Literature - Ages 6 and older category) and placed #9 on The 2013 Gittle List TOP 10for Self-published Children’s Picture Books. Stevens has written articles for ECHOES, The Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture based in Caribou, Maine. In 2013, the author published her first book for the YA/Adult audience: PURE TRASH, a short story of a boy growing up in rural New England in a family whose poverty and alcoholism mark him as a target for bullying by young and old alike. This short story is a prequel to Stevens's debut novel, DOG BONE SOUP, A Boomer’s Journey released in January of 2015.
    Bette A. Stevens says:

    Thankfull for a beautiful day! 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Beautiful days are the best and most of them are beautiful. 🙂

  10. Eugi – Atlanta Ga – A Pushcart Prize nominee in 2025, my poetry appears in twelve anthologies, and my work is published across six platforms, inclusive of WordPress, PoetrySoup, Spillwords, BlueSky, Mastodon, and Tumblr. I am among those who received Socialite of the Year (Honorary Award) for the Year 2025 by Spillwords Press. I’m thrilled in be in the company of such a talented group of kindred souls. Now retired, I enjoyed a dedicated career in the insurance industry for over 40 years being rewarded professionally and personally.
    -Eugenia says:

    Yikes! Temps over 100 F are too much for me! We’ve been in the high 80s and low 90s in my neck of the woods. The A/C in our apartment has issues every now and then, and we just send in a work order to have it fixed. It’s my birthday today, and I’m grateful for my hubby, my cat, my health, and my online friends. Happy Thursday! ❤️

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      ♪♫Happy Birthday to you,♪♫
      ♪♫Happy Birthday to you,♪♫
      ♪♫Happy Birthday Dear Eugenia,♪♫
      ♪♫Happy Birthday to you.♪♫

  11. Kathe W. – Married to my best pal, mother of three grown children, retired and wouldn't be able to fit work in now-too busy having fun and learning new things every day.
    Kathe W. says:

    Oh my 108??????? eeeek. We are expecting temps in the 90’s, that’s hot enough for me for sure! So glad you are diligent about maintenance- so are we- it pays to take care of stuff! Be cool!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We’re inside with the air conditioning on. Not going anywhere until this breaks. 🙂

  12. Kismet – New River, Arizona. – I'm a 16 year old Indian Ringneck parrot curmudgeon in New River, Arizona in the wild west country. If you're a sunflower seed, you're dinner.
    Kismet says:

    105F and it isn’t even 11am yet.I’ll skip the flying today.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I hear you, Kismet. You have much hotter temperatures where you are. 🙂

  13. Jan K – United States
    Jan K says:

    Wow, that makes our heat wave of low 90’s recently look quite mild! We are back to normal now, though that heat will be back. We’re pretty lucky that our house stays fairly cool if we close off the windows on the sunny side. A couple strong fans and we can usually sleep comfortably. Hope your heat wave breaks soon, in the meantime, stay as cool as possible! Luke sends smooches (after drinking some cold water – LOL).

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Things will be back to normal on Monday. A long hot weekend ahead. The low 90s is a wonderful temperature for us here. Smooches to Luke and tell him I love him. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I just went to the post office and it’s hot outside already. It’s not even noon yet. Bugger. 🙂

  14. Xena, Lucy and Chia – Soddy Daisy, TN USA
    Xena and Lucy says:

    Just got off a Zoom call with a friend in CA, where they are in triple digits, and he was waiting on the A/C repair person. They slept in a hotel last night. So yes, even with the grumping that it’s too cold in the house, I sit out here on the porch thankful that I can cool off whenever I want.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Yes this is happening to a lot of folks right now. The first long heatwave and folks’ air conditioners breakdown. We’ve been there and we don’t want to be there anymore. I’d love some of your cool weather. 🙂

  15. The OP Pack says:

    Everyone here, human and canine and avian, are very grateful for a/c too. Ours has been running nonstop for a few days now. We won’t be looking forward to the electric bill, but Mom says she would be lost without good a/c.

    Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We aren’t looking forward to the electric bill either, but I’ll gladly pay to stay cool. 🙂

  16. A ShutterBug Explores says:

    Always good to have A/C when needed and same with heat and maintenance needed to be done for everything ~ even us humans ~ LOL ~

    Lots of Xo’s to you ~ stay cool ~ Angel and Carol

    Live in the moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I agree. We do maintenance on everything including us. Love and hugs to you both. 🙂

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I hear you. I have a hard time sleeping when it’s to hot. 🙂

  17. mjgolch – Cleveland Ohio – I'm a retired Corrections Officer. I served in the USAF from July 1971 until July 1974. I quit smoking in 1994. I have been sober since 02/02/2022 prior sober date 12/12/1990. I've been married to my Celestine since March 1,1980 and lost her to kidney failure October 2020
    mjgolch says:

    triple digets,YIKESlast night the temps were in the 40’s I need the furnise on and tomarrow the temps will be in the 80 and we might have some bad weather

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I’d take those 80s, but not the bad weather. Be safe, Mike. 🙂

  18. Wonderpurr Life – Once homeless colony cats, now living a Wonderpurr Life in a Florida beachside town.
    Herman and Dori says:

    At Chateau Wonderpurr, we are now in the Hoomid and Soggy Season where every day we get rain in the afternoon, and while the grass and flowers enjoy a nice bath, it makes the air steamy, and does kinda frightening things to our meowmy’s hair. We have woods behind our house, and that brings out these teeny microscopic gnats that easily fly through the Catio screen, and land on us, making us itch. And this is mid June. Can’t wait for the next two months when it all gets…worse.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I’m so sorry that those pests are getting in your furs. I’m sorry you’re looking at two months of awful. 🙂

  19. pjack214 – Mom, Nana, part time photographer, artist in oils and crafts.
    Pamela Jackson says:

    HAHA….Like you I am thankful for the air condition! I can remember my grandmother did not have air, in Georgia until after I as married and had a kid. My oldest is now 40. Can’t even remember what it was like but i do remember visiting with the box fans placed in the window and you struggled to go to sleep in the evenings…

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      I remember those days too. Awful, but it was just what happened in the summer. 🙂

  20. Anne M Robinson says:

    The heat is something. You have us beat today! I am sorry. It is tough. I just came inside from my garage. Checking on the light for my flag and now I am having a sneezing fit. The three neighbors across the street all have these horrible trees that spew their yucky green mossy looking seeds which blow to our side of the street. I have to hose them away and pray they hit the drain at the end of the road. YUCK! My eyes water and I can not stop sneezing. Yet I am grateful for the a/c/ and being indoors which is where I love to be in this heat wave.
    Have a great weekend. HUGS to you my friend

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Yes it’s mighty hot here and will be through Sunday. I’ll be glad when Monday only has a high in the low 90s. Yikes on the trees. This is a horrible time for allergies. Hugs back. 🙂

  21. Patricia
    Patricia says:

    I am thankful for air conditioning, too. So far it has only gotten into the 90’s here, but in July the 100’s will be normal until September. Makes going for a walk difficult. I am not an early riser but if I want to walk I have to leave the house 5:30-6:00 am. Bummer.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      We have heat waves from now until September. It’s summer. We walk early too. 🙂

  22. darlamsands
    darlamsands says:

    Biannual HVAC maintenance is important. We did have a system failuire but a call to the reliable technician uncovered the issue. And thank heaven as it was the hottest day so far here (upper nineties) outside Dayton, Ohio. ~hugs~ Best wishes!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Things happen and it’s good to have a reliable company take care of those issues. I’m glad you got it sorted out. Hugs. 🙂

  23. Jen
    Jen says:

    I hear you! We just got a new ac system last spring and what a difference it makes this year. Our old one was struggling to keep up with the 100 degree heat. Stay cool!

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      Yes they get tired and need replacement. We’ll do that when the time comes. I’m glad you’re cool. You have much hotter temps than we do. 🙂

  24. Tails Around the Ranch – Denver, CO – The inspiration behind this blog was one knuckleheaded Standard Poodle named Sam but is now inspired by a House Pony-Wilson. I'm Monika, the upright. Living in the Denver metro area, we post about dogs, rescue and nature. So grab your favorite beverage and be prepared to howl along with our adventures. And don't forget to bark your 'pup-tacular' comment; we'd love to hear from you.
    Tails Around the Ranch says:

    The triple digits have me already counting down the days to autumn (93 BTW)! Hopefully things will cool down soon for you.

    • Sandee – California – Home of Awww Mondays, Happy Tuesday, and Wordless Wednesday.
      Sandee says:

      You’re hotter than we are right now, but it’s climbing. 🙂

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