Cool!

First electric bill since the window units....

$60 less!!

Saving money and sleeping good at night!

Should have done it a long time ago.

I Love Getting To Use My Christmas Presents

One year for Christmas I asked for, and received from my in-laws, a small in house size wet/dry shop vac. It's the same one that I mentioned before, with the disappearing hose. Hubby found substitute hoses, one at the junkyard in a car, and one in the middle of the street, and I have used it several times. As a dry vac. I got to use the wet over the weekend.

I went to throw a load in the washer and found this:

Hard to capture in a picture, but it is water on the floor in front of the washing machine. Not tons, but the floor was wet. I first thought something was wrong with the washer and spent some time looking around to try and find what was leaking.

I eventually noticed this:

That is the drain hose for the washing machine. It's not supposed to be there. It is supposed to be up there in between the two water valves. Where the drain is. NOT hooked over the edge of the clothes hamper.

Luckily I was caught up on laundry (for a change) and no clothes got soaked. And I got to tell you, I was mighty impressed with that hamper. It is a nylon inner liner (the blue part), over a canvas outer part, on a plastic frame. And considering the amount of water in the hamper, it didn't leak out very much.

It wasn't as full as the water line in that second picture. Maybe about half that. Way to much to sop up with a couple of towels.

So I break out the my little shop vac. It took two times to get it all.

I highly recommend getting one of these. It's very handy. And Sears usually puts it on sale for Black Friday.

It Worked!!

When we got up this morning the tape was in disarray:

Nothing was broken or knocked off the shelves. And there was a couple of pieces of tape on the ground.

I have my suspicions of who the guilty culprit is.

Settling for a lower shelf.

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Can't Pass Up A Bargain

Not me. Hubby.

A car bargain anyway. Especially if it isn't running. I think he takes it as a personal challenge on his mechanical skills: how cheaply can I get it running again.

I'd show you pictures of Ruby, but Blogger.com STILL won't let me upload pictures. So you get to use your imagination.

Picture a red Trio. No body damage, but some peeling clear coat on the spoiler, hood, and door trim. Nice interior.

Picture Hubby getting to use his new toy...the Kar Kaddy.

Picture us stopping over and over and over and over because when he'd hit the brakes, the Kaddy and the Trio were swinging off to the side. A sign that one of the brakes was grabbing harder than the other.

I can't tell you how many times poor Hubby took off a Kaddy tire to adjust the brake. In the heat. Over and over.

Picture him jacking up one side of the Kaddy. Taking off the lug nuts. Taking off the tire. Taking off the big round thing over the brakes (is that the drum?). Spinning it around and around. Then putting it all back. In the heat.

Picture Hubby rolling around on the ground doing Parking Lot Yoga to stretch out the kinks in his back.

He finally struck on the idea to disable the trailer brakes all together until we get home and he could fix it properly.

So we stopped and had lunch and I stayed there and read (in the air conditioning) while he went to the hardware store and bought a doo-hickey to stick in the thingy-ma-bob.

And it worked. The Trio quit swinging to the side when he'd brake.

He ordered a new something or other and he replaced it the other day and has declared the Kar Kaddy good as new.

Handy Hubby.

A Sticky Situation

This is the top of our TV, speaker and shelf thingie in the living room. Yes, those are strips of scotch tape.

Why do we decorate our living room in such a fashion?

Because we have shelves directly over them. And because we have annoying cats who can't pass up the opportunity to sit on a high shelf. Even if the shelves already are occupied by stuff. Breakable stuff. That ends up smashed on the floor when a big fat annoying cat tries to squeeze its hairy butt somewhere it doesn't belong.

The last time they broke something and Hubby did this, it only took one jump and getting covered in tape to stop them.

The sight of a cat trying to shake scotch tape of its feet is almost worth the broken pottery.

Stop The World I - I Need To Get Off

Apparently thousands of people have signed a petition urging PBS to have Bert and Ernie get married to promote LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) acceptance.

Sesame Street's response: "...they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation."