My last post mentioned Bill Hansen, Owner/Operator of Sun Limited Foam, Inc. who was here with a helper to install Cool Foam roof coating on our park model home. As the work progressed on Tuesday, it became apparent that they wouldn’t get it finished in one day as they’d hoped. They ended up knocking off a little early – I imagine it was pretty hot up on the roof as the cloudless sky produced a temperature in the upper 80s.

They were back at it Wednesday morning, but this time Bill brought two helpers. It was a lot of work but they had most of the foam layer done before taking a lunch break. They had a trailer with a generator and pump that pumped the foam chemical through a hose which they used to spray the product over the roof. The foam layer is about one-inch thick and has an insulation value of about R13 to R15.

The foam coating is a tan color and it alone would insulate and seal the roof, but it isn’t UV resistant and would break down from constant exposure to sunlight. So, once they had the foam covering everything, they switched to a pure white elastomer product to spray over the foam coating. This elastomer adds some insulation value, but its real purpose is to protect the foam below and reflect sunlight from the surface. This helps keep the place cooler on sunny days – of which we have over 300 per year here in Arizona.

The Cool Foam coating covers everything except for the car port roof. It extends a few feet over the car port roof to seal the edges where the car port corrugated metal roof joins the house.

We’ve kept busy with different activities here at Viewpoint Golf and RV Resort. I play pickleball most mornings while Donna plays tennis twice a week and pickleball two or more days per week. I’ve also started 90-minute coaching sessions on Tuesday afternoons. Donna is also learning to play golf – she had her first lesson with her friend Ginny over the weekend.

Most days, Donna provides home and companion care services for a couple of hours per day. People here at Viewpoint that need help with cleaning or moving or pet sitting and various other tasks can hire Donna and she’s been in fairly high demand.

We both also practice music most days – Donna with her clarinet and me hacking away on the guitar. Donna finds time most days to come up with great dinner dishes as well. Last Tuesday, she made country style ribs in the slow cooker and served it with a baked potato and asparagus.

A couple of days later, she baked fish in parchment paper and served it with Southern fried cabbage with bacon.

Last night, she made balsamic steak tips with mushrooms and served it with spaghetti squash with bacon and parmesan cheese. Delicious!

I have to rant about something. My dental insurance premium is supposed to be automatically paid through my Healthcare Reimbusement Account (HRA), but something went wrong there and Cigna billed my credit card. No big deal, right? Just submit the expense to the HRA and get reimbursed. But here’s the issue.

They sent me an e-mail stating that my credit card was billed. The e-mail had a link to the MyCigna website so I could view the details. I clicked on the link. No payment details there – no payment history (I searched all over the site). The e-mail also had a phone number for Cigna billing and enrollment services if I had any questions. I called this number and went through about a dozen menus and questions before I spoke with a person.

They told me to click on Payment History on the website. I asked them to tell me where I would find this option – there’s no search function on this lame site and no payment history option that I could find. The person told me they don’t have access to the site, so he couldn’t tell me how to find the option. Some helpdesk, right? I asked him if he could look up my account and e-mail me a payment receipt so I could submit it for reimbursement. He said he could only mail a paper copy or fax it to me – like we all have fax machines at home in 2021. Maybe 15 years ago that would’ve worked. So that’s the service from Cigna – a link to website that doesn’t show any payment detail and a phone number to a helpdesk that isn’t very helpful. I’ll have to wait 10 to 14 business days for a paper receipt in the mail!

The weather in a word has been delightful. We were pushing 90 for a few days, but it’s mostly been mid to upper 80s with comfortable evenings and overnight lows in the mid 50s. The morning temperatures are very comfortable. The swamp cooler easily handles the afternoon temperature and we haven’t had to run the air conditioning. Today’s forecast calls for a high of 85 and next week is supposed to be 5 to 10 degrees cooler.

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