31 degrees going to 41, and then the mess starts. Only four to six inches of snow, but blowing, drifting snow and high winds per the lastest forecast, and now that lonely number one is visiting us too, on Friday night. Anyone who pined for some "old fashioned winter weather" is sure getting their wish this winter.
Up half the night with a leak in the refrigerator ice maker, which I discovered when i went into the basement last night to find boxes to put xmas stuff away. Huh, what's that lake doing here? I tightened the external fitting to no avail, it was leaking inside someplace. Finally I got seriously annoyed at changing out wet towels and took a vice grip to the plastic supply line. That slowed things down and this morning the towels were wet but not dripping. Time to call the Sears repairman, silly thing is only three years old but such is life. The best part of course was pulling out the refrigerator and dealing with the mess underneath, at least it's on tile and cleaned up ok.
I vacuumed all the vents on the fridge while I was down there, amazing how much dust accumulates back there. Kind of embarrassing actually, but then at 3am on my hands and knees that emotion wasn't top on my list.
going to put an external battery charger on my whole house gen for a couple of hours today, error code keeps coming on saying check battery. I don't think the test run each week charges the battery properly, and I'll put a three cycle charger on it and hopefully desulphate a bit. It starts just fine but...
Something tells me I'm going to need that gen this weekend.
With these weather patterns over the last two years, I bet the generator makers are celebrating. We even have new shops popping up in this area touting
generator sales. Being without power when it's really cold out is just plain dangerous, particularly for older folk. I wonder how many pick up trucks routinely run back and forth with portable gens to family and friends each bad storm that comes through... I finally gave my old one to my MIL and bought a nicer portable for myself, which I don't keep at home of course. Though maybe I should and loan it out. I loaned my earlier one out to a friend whose husband had medical equip that just had to keep running, and it came back running fine, after a major repair bill because they carbon gunked the thing up terribly because they ran it all night (for ten days)with no load on it. And apparently did that several times. Now they know to keep a space heater, or something, plugged into it.
January 2. Time to make the most of this year.
Good morning all.
