Humid and warm.\u00a0 Some wind.\u00a0 Probably.<\/p>\n
It was very pleasant Friday, if windy and overcast.<\/p>\n
I did get a few things done, but mostly it was a day of domestic bliss<\/em>.\u00a0 Make breakfast for 3, one after the other, lunch for 2, separately, then dinner for all of us.\u00a0 That takes a surprising amount of time.\u00a0 A bit of cleaning, mostly with the leaf blower, and picking up stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 I went through some more ebay and auction stuff.\u00a0 Did some very minor stuff in the garage, and did a bit more decorating.\u00a0 Lots of time got eaten with real estate research – driven by my wife…<\/p>\n The roofer confirmed Monday and Tuesday, so I have to get the antennas down today or tomorrow.\u00a0 Late Sunday I’ll have to move some of the Halloween decorations too.<\/p>\n I looked at all the garden beds.\u00a0 The beets might be starting.\u00a0 The peas are coming in, but only a few plants.\u00a0 Nothing else sprouted.\u00a0\u00a0 The citrus is starting to get close.\u00a0\u00a0 I will recheck the timing, but if I don’t see sprouts soon, I’ll open a new packet of seeds, and try again.\u00a0 It’ll have to be soon though.<\/p>\n One thing I did mostly for fun was to take apart the slow cooker and see if I could find the fault.\u00a0 I did, the thermal cutoff switch has failed.\u00a0 It’s a\u00a0 $2 part if you can wait for it to come from china.\u00a0 I have\u00a0 a whole bin of salvaged ones, but they may have a different temp rating.\u00a0 I’ll check them out in a day or two.\u00a0 The control board also had two swollen capacitors.\u00a0\u00a0 If I have the temp switch, I’ll probably change the caps too.\u00a0 Then it will be back in service.\u00a0\u00a0 They are not super expensive, and real Croc-pot cookers come up in the auctions and at goodwill all the time, but I do like fixing things and it’s good practice.\u00a0 It’s also a quick fix.\u00a0 The longest time would be spent replacing the caps, second longest was taking out all the screws.<\/p>\n “make it do” is part of my ethos, as is fixing stuff, and I learn a lot whenever I fix something.\u00a0\u00a0 Valuable skills if things go south, valuable in any case even now.<\/p>\n Fix something.\u00a0 Get something old working again.\u00a0 Conserve something.\u00a0 And stack what you can.<\/p>\n nick <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Humid and warm.\u00a0 Some wind.\u00a0 Probably.<\/p>\n It was very pleasant Friday, if windy and overcast.<\/p>\n I did get a few things done, but mostly it was a day of domestic bliss<\/em>.\u00a0 Make breakfast for 3, one after the other, lunch for 2, separately, then dinner for all of us.\u00a0 That takes a surprising amount of time.\u00a0 A bit of cleaning, mostly with the leaf blower, and picking up stuff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n