It’s time to change the clocks again. I think this is a silly custom.
It reminds me of that tall friend of mine who was always cold because his blanket was too short so he cut six inches off the bottom of it and sewed them to the top. Works like a champ.
DG is already trying to remember how this works.
I told him… “Just think of it this way. It’s later than you think”.
It snowed yesterday.
The new thermometer told us how cold it was in the garage before we went out….. confirmed later by numb fingers.
The Augernaut ran and threw the snow.
The new microwave oven heated the coffee to warm us up after coming in.
I like this hat trick better than the one we had before.
And I promise to stop drawing stupid cartoon faces on appliances.
Promise.
Really.
First it was the thermometer.
Then, it was the Augernaut.
Now, the microwave oven has quit working.
It just stopped. RIP microwave.
That is three “appliances” in a row that have crapped out on us in February. We are hoping that things only come in threes, and that DG’s “Golden Sombrero” (look it up) is mistaken.
So, here it is, still February, and it has rained all day!
That means that, after digging out of two snowstorms by hand….. OK… not by hand…. using a shovel……, my newly-restored, über-expensive snowblower is now sitting in the garage as useless as wheels on a crutch!
You can’t make this stuff up.
The Augernaut showed up today totally reborn and working after the Snowblower Doctor fixed it. Here it is, purring away. Notice that the headlight is beaming.
DG, of course, is ecstatic.
I think that his smile might diminish when we tell him that there will still be walkways and sidewalks to shovel.
On Monday, while cleaning up the most recent storm leavings, the Augernaut spilled its oil out on the driveway and quit.
Yup. The Augernaut was gone.
So sad.
DG was devastated.
But I suspect that he is really mourning the additional time he is going to spend with his shovel.
Regardless, the Augernaut is at the Snowblower Doctor, and we are crossing our fingers for a good outcome.
I put new batteries in that thermometer, but unfortunately it was the thermometer that bit the dust, not the batteries. So I tossed it out and bought this new one.
It’s kinda cute…. and it works… and I like the temperature that it is showing me better as well.
But, DG thought differently and said that he could fix the old one. So he fetched it out of the trash and got to work.
A few hours later he gave up too.
Some things simply cannot be fixed.
How cold was it this morning? It was soooooo cold that the thermometer gave up.
See the one on the left?….. the one we have reporting from the garage…. it just gave up and quit.
Can’t see it? I have circled the “temperature” being reported from the garage.
The little lines mean that the thermometer has given up and is no longer reporting to the Mother Ship.
DG thinks that it quit in despair.
I suspect that the batteries went flat.
Whatever. It was darn cold out there.
It is still January, and here in New England we are very far from spring. But one of the plants in the basement has decided to push it a bit anyway.
That is a very blue flower.
The official name of this ambitious plant is convolvulus tricolor, also known as a dwarf morning-glory.
We just got our first significant snow of 2019. YAY!…. well maybe not “YAY!“….. maybe it should be more like “yay”.
Anyway, DG is cranked and ready to go.
He found all his gear….. his mittens and his boots and longjohns and puffy coat and he put them all on.
Unfortunately, now he can’t bend his arms to work the shovel.
Oh well. We handled it just fine using the Augernaut.
