28 May 2016

So what always happens at 6 pm on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend?  You got it: the well pump controller got sick, leaving us not only with no water, but, thanks to a geothermal heating and cooling system that must have lots of the clear and wet to operate, rapidly failing air conditioning… with the outside temperature hitting 90° today.  The good news is that less than 5 minutes after I called Spafford’s answering service, John Williams called back to verbally troubleshoot the problem (which didn’t work) and promise to be here first thing in the morning.  He suggested a dip in the lake to both cool down and clean up.  Riiiiight!  Did I mention that the house phone is kaput this weekend, too, hopefully not due to the rewiring I did on Friday.  James came by for an hour and used the mini-excavator to regrade the slope in front of the garage, hopefully removing the lake that was forming every time it rained hard.  Bob and Toni Best, a husband and wife window blind installation team, were here most of the morning installing (wait for it…) Graber thermally insullated window blinds throughout the house.  Absolutely gorgeous, all of them!  Chree and I spent the day cleaning the new house.  We retrieved all of the pots, pans, and dishes out of Delores… and (trust me, you don’t want to know why) put most of them straight into the dishwasher, which we’ll run just as soon as we have water again.  Oh, the joys of new home ownership!