30 May 2016

A/C ran all night, never getting the house below 73°, with the set point at 68° and the outside temperature in the mid-60’s.  Something ain’t right!  Apparently, when the well went on strike yesterday, the heat pump’s controller, being a member of the same union, also walked off the job…  Called Steve Poplawski (who happened to be the Ryan’s on-call technician today) and he arrived at 10 o’clock.  Steve put the geothermal heat pump back to work by turning the circuit breaker off, then on again four minutes later, and, like magic, we started getting cold water again.  What happened to the good olde days when you’d just replace a blown fuse with a penny?  Now everything is controlled by a finicky computer chip.  Spent the day schlepping the last few car / truck loads of our stuff from Kate’s over to our new house, then doing a thorough cleaning at Kate’s place.  Marty & Merry came up to enjoy the first (of, hopefully, many) fabulous meal in our new house, this time featuring Bourride and Aïoli (Provençal Fish Stew with Garlic Mayonnaise) plus Bread Pudding with Hard Sauce.  A heavenly meal with heavenly folks in a heavenly setting!!!!