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Rain all weekend last weekend, Monday, Wed (today), and Friday. Highs in the 50s next 10 days. Lows in the 40s next 10 days. Our habaneros are turning from green to orange now so we need to keep watch for a freeze word.
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We have a annual burn ban from Jun 15 or so to sep 30 or so. We have done 3 burns so far this month. We collect a lot word.
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Great story on your HVAC, weird they were going to charge you. Crappy contractor.
Our Habaneros are just now starting to turn from green to orange. They are actually getting yellowish right now. It is wet and nasty here. We’ve had roughly 1 inch of rain over the weekend. Temps are not near freezing yet and nothing close for the next 10 days so I am leaving them there until they start to turn colors.
We had a big wind the other day and it knocked down a huge tree limb that almost hit our garage. Actually it might have because it is within about 8 feet of the garage. I should go take a look. Cedar trees are losing a lot of their “needles” and as a result our roofs and driveways and trails through our backyard are thick with them. My wife had me blow them off last week and they are worse now than then word.
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I am hoping this is all under warranty. What a nightmare. You should have refused the bill from HVAC, they should have known about that e switch word.
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I changed out the water pump and that didn’t work. Then I heard weird noises. It turns out the old pump was still working. The fan will not turn when the system tries to get it going. It goes forward and backward and makes a weird noise. Then it stops doing that for about 2 minutes and tries again. So not the water pump. This is a brand new furnace. I checked the fan, it turns freely. So this is a motor issue or a signal issue. My guess is it is the motor. Very frustrating. I have changed the furnace filter every 3 months. So it has not been starved for air to cavitate. I think the motor is just not doing it right. Commutator, brush, something is wrong in the motor word.
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Hi AC – Glad you are back. Hopefully all is well with you and yours.
Furnace failed to run this morning. It is high efficiency so it makes water. I figured the pump broke so I changed it. Nope. It is a new furnace, and it is trying to run, I can hear it and the fan is trying to turn. The furnace guys are trying to help me over the phone. I think they will be coming over to fix this thing. Good thing it is an Indian Summer for now word.
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I remember when I moved to MN in the Twin Cities, my neighbor warned me about winter and told me how to prepare. He said there will be a 3 week Indian Summer and that is the time to get it all done because after 3 weeks, the freeze starts. And he was right. He had me doing stuff I had no idea I needed to do coming from Seattle. But I did and we were safe with no pipe bursts or anything.
We have a fence of sorts over the garden but it doesn’t really keep the deer out. Amazingly, the deer ate down one of the hot pepper plants but not all 4. So we only have 2 jalapenos and 1 habanero. Currently there are 13 pickable Jalapenos, and that is after we have bagged 3 sandwich bags of them, and we have 12 habaneros. Bumper crop. My wife makes a habanero jelly that she really likes a lot word.
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Well, that’s impossible here in the woods. Our garden was invaded by a bear the other day. Deer, coyotes, racoons, opposums, and squirrels. Even a cougar drops by every once in a while. Can’t see the horizon due to trees and overcast skies word.
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That’s pretty cool with the Comet. I remember Halleys when it came around, that was pretty spectacular. We can’t see the current comet with all the overcast skies and I think we are not in the zone to see it for some reason. It seems we should be but maybe not. Cool but dry so far today word.
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Wow, I’m sorry to hear that. What a terrible week. I hope your wife is doing better now. I have a friend that had kindey stones and he was pretty rough for a little while. Watching TV he had to turn it down when commercials came on because the increased volume irritated his stones. Kind of weird. I really hope things get back to normal for you and your wife.
Weather here is getting back to normal for Seattle. Rain with a chance of more rain word.
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Offensive coordinator also. That was a good solution to the floor burn. Lost my voice over the weekend and haven’t been feeling up to par for about a month, a slow burn. Close to pneumonia but not quite there yet thank goodness. I’ve had enough of that word.
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Yeah, Alabama didn’t look good this time!! Holy smokes!!
The tree had been topped but was still alive. It was gnarly all over. Maple – hardwood. We don’t burn because we have high ceilings and the room never heats up. We even bought a fireplace heater which is a form of grate with tubes and a fan and the heat from the tubes is blown through the tubes and into the room. Much better situation but it still didn’t do much. Plus we burned the carpet. So we gave up on burning wood. I like wood heat. If we had a stove, we probably would burn more word.
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Yeah, Atlanta got hit hard. Asheville NC got hit really hard I hear. Spent last saturday cutting and splitting a tree we felled last week. That wore me out. Hard splitting. I’ve never had such trouble splitting wood. So I rested watching the Alabama Georgia game. Great game especially because Alabama won and are now #1 word.
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