WEDNESDAY AND WARMER THAN TOMORROW!
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:10 amGOOD MORNING ALL!
At 8 degrees above zero this morning, it's warmer than it will be for another few days now, according to the weather forecasts.
I checked on my trailer a couple of days ago, and discovered that my batteries were about 2/3rds charged, according to my gauge inside. I checked the water level, and added a bit of distilled to one of them. After checking again yesterday afternoon, the guage showed the batteries to still be about 2/3rds charged. I had run my furnace for way too long a few days ago, as I forgot about it, and wondered if that had run them down. But, having them plugged in should have charged them again. Anyway, after getting some light bulbs for my lamps out there and trying the plugs, I discovered there was no electricity to the rig. (I need to remember that the overhead lights run on battery power, I guess, as apparently does the furnace?) So I checked the junctions of the extension cord, (digging under the snow where they are covered with containers) and they were tight and fine. So out to the barn I went where I have the cord plugged in, and LO.....there was a little yellow light on the plug. I hadn't noticed that the socket is one of those with a reset button on it....like a bathroom socket? Anyway, when I hit the reset button, all is fine once again! Problem solved. I will just have to remember to check that plug-in after I run my furnace again. It's nice to know I can have it toasty in there via battery power, however! I have never run the furnace on batteries before, to my knowledge. What makes those switches on those plugs snap off? Overload, or something? I could have saved me a lot of trouble by checking that plug first!
We made about 20 birch bark signs yesterday in school, and I am now putting the finishing touches on mine so I can stain the back and sides and polyurethane it today. Mine is REALLY rustic (the letters, I mean) and I totally love it! Can't wait to get it home here.
Time to pay some bills and get into a hot bath before heading to the salt mines. Coffee is hot, so stop in and tell us about your day. I need to appreciate the 'warmth' of today, as it's bound to be way colder tomorrow morning!
At 8 degrees above zero this morning, it's warmer than it will be for another few days now, according to the weather forecasts.
I checked on my trailer a couple of days ago, and discovered that my batteries were about 2/3rds charged, according to my gauge inside. I checked the water level, and added a bit of distilled to one of them. After checking again yesterday afternoon, the guage showed the batteries to still be about 2/3rds charged. I had run my furnace for way too long a few days ago, as I forgot about it, and wondered if that had run them down. But, having them plugged in should have charged them again. Anyway, after getting some light bulbs for my lamps out there and trying the plugs, I discovered there was no electricity to the rig. (I need to remember that the overhead lights run on battery power, I guess, as apparently does the furnace?) So I checked the junctions of the extension cord, (digging under the snow where they are covered with containers) and they were tight and fine. So out to the barn I went where I have the cord plugged in, and LO.....there was a little yellow light on the plug. I hadn't noticed that the socket is one of those with a reset button on it....like a bathroom socket? Anyway, when I hit the reset button, all is fine once again! Problem solved. I will just have to remember to check that plug-in after I run my furnace again. It's nice to know I can have it toasty in there via battery power, however! I have never run the furnace on batteries before, to my knowledge. What makes those switches on those plugs snap off? Overload, or something? I could have saved me a lot of trouble by checking that plug first!
We made about 20 birch bark signs yesterday in school, and I am now putting the finishing touches on mine so I can stain the back and sides and polyurethane it today. Mine is REALLY rustic (the letters, I mean) and I totally love it! Can't wait to get it home here.
Time to pay some bills and get into a hot bath before heading to the salt mines. Coffee is hot, so stop in and tell us about your day. I need to appreciate the 'warmth' of today, as it's bound to be way colder tomorrow morning!
Nah! No bikini here someone would probably call P.I.T.A. about a beached whale. 
He of course was at work and couldn't do much. But he had to run a junk motor and some old parts to the junk yard and swung over to the bank to tinker with the Blazer. Seems like there is a ground short some where. He jumped started it with the jumper box from work and seeing as how it was 4pm we had to head straight home before dark as we had no headlights. Usually he has Wednesday off but he opted to work today and is going to have Thursday off instead. He said he will see what he can do for both my Blazer and his.
Except for the GTG, and the fact I really want to go, I would have headed home this morning. Yesterday was just not a really good day , but I feel better this morning.
not to check in regularly...... Sorry that the revisiting of places known and history past has not had more bright spots for you.....Am looking forward to January though and walking the camp ground with Maggie again...and her human!