Oh you poor girl! Probably a dumb question but did you check the breaker?

let me be the first....BANG

sorry to hear the bad news.

I agree with tannatonk, if everything is dead, it has to be something common like a breaker. Hope hubby can fix it tonite.

Manature, I feel your pain. My DH is a AC guy but your right, it might be tomorrow before it works. I'm sure he will check it out and might get it going tonight.
One thing is for sure, he doesn't want to sleep in the heat either or at least mine doesn't!

Checked the breaker first thing...no dice. I have no idea what's wrong. It was working when I went to bed, but not when I got up this morning.

Wanda, my husband lived down here for years with no a/c. He still doesn't need it often. He actually LIKES to sweat. Ugh. BUT...he doesn't like to listen to me whine and moan and carry on, so he will be coming home shortly to look at it.

And Tony...thanks for being so accommodating! Now I know who to call when I need to be put out of my misery!

Still sweatin' in Sanford!
Marcia

Let's all take guesses as to what the problem is going to be.....

mine would be the 24v transformer to the thermostat as my first one seeing as not even the fan in the air handler runs.

second guess is dirty contacts in the thermostat.

I know these guesses dont make it any cooler over there, sorry.

Mark is home, and currently is looking at something in the ATTIC. I can't imagine what. Some kind of safety switch which may have tripped, I think he muttered. So far, he hasn't even walked outside, so he's definitely thinking electrical problem, I guess. Will let you know if any of your guesses are right Tony. That's if I can keep the sweat out of my eyes long enough to type!

Marcia

Well, Mark just climbed down from the attic carrying a big ol' fan motor. He said power was getting to it just fine, but it wasn't functioning. So now he has to track down somewhere that he can get this motor. It isn't a typical one, and he may or may not be able to find it tomorrow.

I'm calling motels.

Marcia :o(

Oh Marcia, I feel so badly for you. Take a cold shower and sit with an ice pack on. I know you really feel the heat. Hope you can get this fixed quickly.
Hugs,
Kathy

Shame on you Tony.
Marcia,
We had our ac dead twice this summer. My son Jeremy got it fix
both times. He's an electrician that knows people.
He had to replace the motor. Sylvia is very good at nagging.
Survive girl! All else can wait.

Marcia, you can stay here, just bring the flame thrower with ya.

The trickle of blood slowly snakes its way down the steps and into the garden path. Heat emminates from the house as the sun beats relentlessly on the lone figure in the garden. He wanders meticulously amongst the myraid of plants stopping to pinch off a piece here and take a branch there. He mutters under his breath how he did a friend a favor as he stuffs his bag full of treasure. The lonely wail of dog spilts the still air as if his soul has been wrenched from his body. The figure stops and emits a pent up sigh as he realizes that the dog's owner is no longer able to tend to his needs. He wishes he could have done things differently, but she had asked for what she got. He turns and watches the trail of blood as it slowly seeps into the dirt of the nearest flower bed and lets out a blood curdling scream as the sound of a compressor fires up and a cool blast of air bursts from the open door of the house. Murder is now in cold blood.

Way to go, Tony. You are such a good friend and helping yourself to ill gained spoils now are you?
Yeah, invite her over after you did her in. Tony, Tony, Tony

Hang in there, Ma, we are rooting for your DH aka knight in shining armour to come to your rescue. Otherwise Tony's motel is open just beware of taking a shower and bring maters. *wink* Linda

It was HOT today :( Sorry to hear your a/c went kaput. Mine went a couple years ago when I was 8 months preggo, in August no less. I was not a happy camper. The AC man came out at 8:00 at night to try to fix it, didn't work of course. We spent a miserable 48 hours without the a/c. Anywho, hope you get it fixed soon!!!!

Wendy

Hey now! If Someone is bleeding, its NOT from me saying BANG!

This sounds like an episode from the new 'desperate gardeners' !

Hahaha...Desperate Gardeners! Yes, the Garden Soaps are on and in Prime Time, too. Thanks for the chuckle, Linda! Tony, I see you out there reaping the spoils of my hard labor...just LOOK at all those weeds you can pick and take home with you! That will teach you to go "BANG!" at a friend again!!

Folks, the news is this...we will most likely have to wait until Monday to get the new motor, which Mark will be able to install, thus saving us bunches of money. (It FIGURES that the a/c would go down on a WEEKEND!) So...I've got a couple of days to sweat my way through. However, all is not hopeless...the very old little window shaker unit that has been sitting in our garage for more than ten years is installed in the bedroom and working (knock wood) just fine. So at LEAST I can sleep tonight, and any time during the next two days that I think I can't stand it any longer, I can go in there and read for a couple of hours and cool down. Of course, I'll have to come out once in awhile to get food or check my email, but I'm sure I'll spend most of the weekend in there or eating out at my favorite restaurants. (Hey, I'm not turning on my STOVE when the a/c doesn't work. Fuhgedaboutit!)

Sooooo...I think I'm going to survive until Monday, at which time Mark will go track down a new motor and fix this dadblamed thing.

Sweatin' But Hopeful In Sanford,
Marcia

Get the gun I am next! I thought I would surprize my DH and hose down the back porch. All of a sudden The radio came on LOUD!LOUDLOUD!!! Did I mention it was dark.OOPs I got the outdoor intercom wet now it won't shut off ! I am poking buttons and nothing is happening!I turn down the volume but it is connected throughout the house and i must run to each room to turn the volume down,and the porch!Now I try my DH on the phone UH OH!
Nothing but crackling noiseson the phones!
I have a feeling he is not going to be very happy with me when he gets home!

Not a good day for some, it seems.
I don't mind the heat so much as the dang humidity.

Marcia...can you say floor fan?
I'd a had my butt at HD so fast it woulda made yer haid swim! LOL!
BTW: you're welcome ta come hang at my house if'n ya want.
Hugs...

It was a dark and still night as the shadow slowly crept up the steps and into the crackling house. It is hard to hear above all the crackling and then in the noisy house a strange sound is heard. It is the sound of silence coming from the bedroom. Slowly the door creeks open as the shadow emerges and skulks down the steps and into the garden. The shadow opens a bag and begins snapping branches here and pulling whole plants there. What is happening to all the gardeners? Is there a serial shadow that steals into homes and does gardeners in and then reaps his spoils? Oh, Tony, where were you tonight and I sure hope you have an alibi. *snicker* Linda

Lellie, darlin', I sleep with the a/c cranked down low, a ceiling fan on high right over my head and another fan on my nightstand. I have fans all over the house and they are on in whichever room I'm in, all the time, a/c or no a/c. So...I'm afraid one more wouldn't help a bit! I'm a true RED HOT MAMA, and I'm sizzlin' tonight, for sure!!!

Heading to the one cool room in the house now, with snacks, books and a little tv. I'll be back some time Monday night, hopefully just in time for the new season of Dancing With The Stars!

Marcia

..."Bang"....

tee hee hee

Tropcialfreak

RED HOT MAMA, recent torch purchase, now the a/c goes out.....

I am starting to wonder if you sold your soul .......??

Linda, I was NO WHERE near tropfreak last night when that shot went off at 22:57 .

Oh Marcia, I sympathize with you! I HATE the heat, and am most comfortable in 60 degree and lower, temps.

After suffering with no power after the hurricanes, we made sure we would never go through that again. So there are two Honda generators, and two window A/C units in our shed, ready to keep us cool. In 10 minutes, I can set it up for us, in 20 minutes, the dogs can have A/C too (bigger, heavier A/C unit).

I'm not puttin' up with it anymore(G)!

Hope you get your A/C fixed soon!

Lisa

Thanks, Lisa! We bought a generator this year, too, and I thought I would be protected from this very problem. BUT...since we have power, the generator is useless, so it's our little camping a/c to the rescue. I slept in a very nice, cool room last night! Wonderful little air conditioner...I gave it a loving pat this morning. Then I opened the bedroom door and was slapped in the face by heat and humidity beyond belief. (Mark slept in the living room, preferring to sleep in the heat so he could keep the tv on all night. That's what he usually does on weekends, and he wasn't giving it up, a/c or no a/c.)

I could live with 65 degrees all year long and be a happy camper. My idea of perfection is anything below 72 in the day time, and above 40 at night. I don't like for stuff to freeze and die in my yard, or I would say nights could be even colder. Over 72, and I'm getting warm and need my shorts. Over 85 and I'm very unhappy. Over 95, and I'm not going outside at all.

Tony, if I had actually sold my soul, I would have at least made sure I got central air FOREVER, in exchange! So, obviously, my soul must be in really good shape, as I'm sweltering this morning. Thank goodness the outside temps are lower than they were last month or even last week.

*Note to self...If ever in need of being put out of my misery, Tony AND Cliff are willing to oblige. Thanks, guys...I think!*

I'm going to work outside for a bit. At least there is a breeze out there. And then I think I may go to a movie. I KNOW the theater will be cold!

Marcia, alias the RED HOT MAMA, alias The Coleus Queen of Sanford, alias MaNature.....signing out.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....sounds yer a victim of the dreaded 'POWER SURGES' that I'm goin' through!
They're bad enough without the added temps of Flarda. :o

Lellie...the sad thing is, I've been this way since I was about 40...AND I'M 63 now!!! Believe me, my power has long ago quit surging!! ;o) But it left me hotter than blue blazes, night and day! You can't imagine! And for years, I thought I would lose my mind if I didn't move somewhere cooler, but Mark would not budge. So I'm just trying my best to learn to bloom where I'm planted.

Yes, I'm a Flarda Nadive, and I even grew up here WITH NO AIR CONDITIONING! (Back in the dark ages, only the rich had it!) But the heat bothers me more and more with each passing year.

Everyone tells me I will eventually reach an age where I'm cold all the time. I have visions of me creeping around with a little white cardigan over my shoulders and a shawl on my favorite reading chair. BUT I AIN'T THERE YET! I keep iced drinks on hand all day and night, and a fan at the ready, and soak myself from head to toe in the hose over and over while gardening. And I'm STILL hot, hot, hot!

Oh, well. I'm hangin' in there until Monday, but I swear, it can't get here fast enough!!

Marcia (still Sweatin' AS an Oldie)

While reviewing the security tape it appears there was a second shadow at both Marcia's and GP's homes. *zooming in tight* Oh My Gawd - there are two shadows and one has an electric device hooked to Marcia's power line and is causing the power to stop and start. What is that crackling noise I hear? It is Marcia's A/C motor frying along with Marcia and what what is that other noise? It is the shadows misdirecting GP's hose towards the intercom box. It appears there is most definitely a conspiracy going on here and a deserate gardener or should we say desperate greedy gardeners in search of ill gotten booty. One of them is backing away from a tomato - Oh Tony you best have a great alibi and there is a guy gathering tropicals. I think that Tony and Cliff are in cahoots. POLICE - POLICE HELP! Best watch your gardens as you never know where they will strike again *looking over shoulder and jumping at shadows* Linda

Good news phone ,radio and intercom are working again.NO more crackling phonelines!Hope your AC is on the mend .
Linda, Send the shadows to Marcia PUHLEEEEZE!It may cool her down.

*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...mumble, mutter, huh?*

Wassthat? Somebody calling me? Oh...I think I hear my computer out in the VAST reaches of the sweltering library area, calling out to me that email is arriving, and folks are trying to chat with me. Sorry. Can't leave bedroom. Must stay beside little tiny air conditioning unit...The Little A/C That Could! It's chugging its tiny heart out, keeping my bedroom cool and comfy, and I ain't comin' out until the Big Boy gets fixed!!

Well, okay, I AM making a passthrough for snacks, drinks and an email check...and of course, I had to check GW before racing back to the blissfully cool confines of my bedroom.

Now, I'm OUTTA here! Way too hot for meeeeeee............

RHMMarcia (Red Hot Mama Marcia)

I love murder mysteries, especially gardening ones! How did we ever survive back in the bad old days without a/c down here in Florida?? I don't have any memories of suffering like we do now! I can completely sympathise Marcia, ours had to be repaired earlier this month too, it was only 24 hours without it but what a long 24 hours it was; the dogs and I went and sat in the car. I just do not understand people who don't mind sweating! I keep telling myself that if it was as cold here as I wish it was I couldn't plant my plumerias in the ground but that's small consolation.

Suzanne
Life long resident of Florida - official state motto "it's not the heat, it's the humidity"