Apartment Life #404

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

I noticed something this week. Maintenance has taken out the Air Conditioner is Xavier's vacant apartment and used Stucco and a metal mesh to patch up the hole where it used to be. They left a small hole and put a tube in there. I realized that they put a smaller air conditioner on the roof and are using the tubing to bring the air in the apartment. They used the same metal tubing they used for the gutter wall drain. Not sure this is the right kind of tubing they need for an AC vent but who knows.

Weird, Right? Another person in my courtyard got a new AC and they did the same thing in her apartment too. The AC part of the unit is inside the apartment and the motor is on the roof. It's quiet in the apartment and seems to work well so that's good. 

They did the same thing with the office AC and now the smaller AC is on the roof of the office. I guess these are the new thing because now that I know what they look like, I've seen them on other houses around the neighborhood.

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I noticed the woodpecker is back. He was way up in the tree which is why my picture isn't as clear as I would have liked. But he's hanging upside down in the middle of the picture. 

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I found out a few days ago that the neighbor who moved away 2 years ago that I used to refer to as, "My elderly neighbor" passed away. Her daughter told my daughter it was congestive heart failure. That's sad, she was only 10 years older than I am. We were still friends on Tiktok and I talked to her every now and again. 

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Maintenance cut down a couple of the dead Pine Trees in my courtyard. I took a short video of this one right in front of my living room window coming down. They tied a strap to the top and tugged it down towards the center of the courtyard. I'm just glad it didn't land on top of my apartment because that was a huge tree. 

This is the first tree they cut down. He was standing on the branches to cut the taller branches off.

They tied a strap to it to make it fall the way they wanted.

Here's one of the guys pulling the other end of the strap when it started to fall.

Timberrrr!

The branches made a mess in front of my window, but they cleaned it all up pretty fast. So much for any shade in the Summer time now though.

The high this week was 71F/21C

The low this week was 42F/5C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.