Weekend Plans Post: The Switch
The period between “having the floor unit AC monopolize the window” and “brrr, we’d better close the bedroom window” is the best period of the year. The kitties love sitting in the window with their nose against the screen while they chirp their little songs down to the squirrels running around the trees.
It’s more fun to sing when it’s not through glass, I guess.
This also means that it’s time to swap out the linen sheets for the flannel sheets and put the short sleeve shirts in the back of the closet and BUST OUT THE HOODIES!!!
Seriously, the hoodie time of year is the *BEST* time of year.
It also means that it’s the time of year when the kitties agitate to get under the blankets instead of content to lie on top of them. So that’s nice too.
This weekend will be spent doing a metric buttload of laundry. The stuff that has been in the vacuum bags always smells a little off after months in the back and so we’ve gotta do loads of the hoodies, the fuzzy pants, the flannel shirts, and that one pair of flannel-lined jeans for the days when I’ve got to shovel the walk three or four times.
I thought it would *NEVER* get here.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Tunnel”, photo taken by Maribou.)
My retina detached, and I had to have surgery on Thursday. During surgery, the doc discovered my retina had also torn in half. I spent the better part of Friday recovering from the anesthesia and being taken care of by my amazing wife. I have to spend all my time on my left side or face down. Next week, I get a follow up procedure to remove the liquid and replace it with a gas bubble. This weekend promises to suck.Report
Dude. That *SUCKS*.
Audiobooks? Podcasts?Report
A weekend-like chore on a Monday morning… I woke up this morning to no hot water. That wasn’t horrible, I didn’t have to be anywhere requiring a shower and shave [1]. The fancy display on the tankless water heater was flashing “E110”. Found the paper documentation for the unit. Looked up the code, which was “insufficient air flow for the burner.” The table that had that info also pointed at one of the maintenance sections. That showed (roughly) how to extract the unit’s internal air filter [2]. When I got that out, it was filled with desiccated moth corpses [3]. Emptied the carcasses, washed the filter, put everything back together, and — voila! — hot water. I’ll take myself out for a nice lunch later in the week :^)
[1] I can grow a beard sufficient to provide a disguise in three weeks. Granddaughter #3 came to visit after I had gotten that far along and hid behind her mother. “Who’s that?” she asked. “That’s Grandpa, he grew a beard.” Once I spoke up and had the right voice, the beard was okay.
[2] I’m an oldster and long-time home owner, so have the habit of keeping all manuals for household appliances (despite the internet). Is this another thing the youngs will not do? I also took pictures of the actual filter, and how it fit into the bracket, which was not in the manual, before removing it. Dropped one screw and was halfway to the stairs to go get a flashlight when I remembered, “Phones are flashlights and your phone is in your pocket.” Somewhere here I have the beginning of a short story where the private investigator uses his phone to do all the things that old stories depended on the PI not being able to do — no phone, no flashlight, no audio recorder…
[3] Front Range Colorado has an annual miller moth migration from the plains to the mountains each spring. The last couple of years have been unusually heavy. Presumably these were seeking some sort of shelter and got lost. I’ll buy and install filters for the PVC vent pipes (opening near ground level) to block the insects in the future.Report
The miller moths haven’t been *THAT* bad down here. We were excited to see how the kitties would handle a miller moth infestation and didn’t get much of a show (in 1998 or 1999, we got hit *HARD* and our sweet little Chumky turned into a vicious beast who insisted we hold her up high on the wall to help her hunt).Report