Hey Darlin’!
I had a marvelous night sleep, even going to bed a bit early, then ended up sleeping late as well, so woke up feeling energetic and ready to go! After chores and breakfast, I started on my first problem, which was the water heater. Works fine on the propane side, not on the electric side. Did some research, checked a few wires to see if anything was loose (there was one a tiny bit loose, didn’t think that would cause it, but you never know!). Some of the research says you need to change an anode every couple of years, so I checked out that, couldn’t find it, and eventually figured out that mine doesn’t have an anode because it has an aluminum tank. It seems it can only be the heater element or the circuit board, so I’ll have to work on that again later. My next job was to find out why my outside speakers aren’t working. I found a really great and original radio station that I wanted to listen to while I sat outside, they call themselves the Crossroads, and the alternate between country (some of the usual, over-produced Nashville stuff, but also some more western style that adds a different element), and older rock, the good stuff with lots of guitars, country crossovers and good storytelling. I started by checking the speaker switch, found a loose wire and fixed that, but that didn’t fix the problem. So then I tried to get the radio out, but that seems to need a special tool which I can’t find, though I know I’ve had it out before, at least I think I did. So then I had to go at it from underneath, which meant opening up the grill under the fireplace and reaching up almost beyond my reach. But when I opened it up, I discovered two things, one, it was really dirty, so I cleaned that up, and two, that there were two plumbing pipes for the shower coming up that for some inexplicable reason, I had never filled up with Great Stuff. I would have sworn I had blocked off all the ways bugs and critters could get in, but there were gaping holes around these two pipes. Miraculously, I had a can of that foam, and was even able to reconstitute it so that it would work (no easy task!), and filled that up. Then I finally got around to checking all the wires, only found one bad connection and fixed that, but that didn’t solve the problem. Only thing left was the speakers themselves, so I took those down, found that one had power going to it just fine, but no sound, and the other had no power to it, but the wires were impossible to reach, as they were between walls. Then I remembered that that I might be able to reach them from the vent above the refrigerator so I went on the roof and took the cover off, and sure enough, I could see them, but I couldn’t reach them unless I took the whole vent off, and I wasn’t about to do that! Besides, the wires went right back into the wall again, so I couldn’t follow them anyway, so no point. So I guess I’m going to live without outdoor speakers from now on, oh well. So I didn’t accomplish either task I set out to do, but I did get a lot of other stuff done along the way! In the evening, I listened into the first OTL meeting, glad that’s starting to move along, it’s been slow going up until now. Finally settling down for a few minutes, but not for long, will be taking my shower and getting to bed again, hopefully early like last night, and maybe getting another good night sleep for the stuff I have to do tomorrow! Good night, my sweet! Love you!
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