Hot, Hot, Hot
Jul. 6th, 2023 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI'm typing this while it isn't taken care of yet, but the HVAC repair guy tells me that the capacitor on our unit failed and that is why our house has had bad air delivery since Christmas. Once the temps dropped below 40f the heating unit didn't raise the temp in the house above 65f. No matter what we set the thermostat at, it stayed low. We ended up buying a new thermostat, twice, and that wasn't addressing the problem - not that we knew that because by the second thermostat the outside temperature had risen high enough that the air conditions in the house were back to comfortable. But then the heat hit here last week and suddenly our house was at 85/86f during the sunny part of the day. This time I specified that I wanted a senior technician. He came out, heard my story, and diagnosed the problem right off the bat. Unfortunately it is about as expensive to address as adding new tires to our trunk. Which we just did and now there is even less money for us to think about spending at Pennsic. Can't call it "being nickled and dimed to death" when the "dime" is in the multiple hundreds.
I didn't do a darned thing with my sewing pile yesterday. It was too hot in the house to think about moving much. We didn't even cook dinner, just ate out of the fridge. But I got a lot done for my Pennsic job. My desk is just below two air vents so what minimal cooling was going on was doubled in that spot. I got a lot of computer work done! After the repairman leaves I will start cutting out the four hoods and their linings. I need to check my trim stash and see if there is anything that would go well on the hoods. I'm trying to de-stash trim so right now I have a box with "stuff that insults the authenticity lover in me" mixed with "woven stuff that is too, too nice to use on just any old thing". I have hopes that between them I can find something to edge the hoods with and lower my stash level a bit.
I have a request in with our lawn service to get the big tree trunk chopped up and its stump ground down. Haven't heard from them yet but I did hear from someone who wants to pick up the pile of wood (roughly half of a cord) so they can use it for firewood. That'll take a worry off of my mind.
I didn't do a darned thing with my sewing pile yesterday. It was too hot in the house to think about moving much. We didn't even cook dinner, just ate out of the fridge. But I got a lot done for my Pennsic job. My desk is just below two air vents so what minimal cooling was going on was doubled in that spot. I got a lot of computer work done! After the repairman leaves I will start cutting out the four hoods and their linings. I need to check my trim stash and see if there is anything that would go well on the hoods. I'm trying to de-stash trim so right now I have a box with "stuff that insults the authenticity lover in me" mixed with "woven stuff that is too, too nice to use on just any old thing". I have hopes that between them I can find something to edge the hoods with and lower my stash level a bit.
I have a request in with our lawn service to get the big tree trunk chopped up and its stump ground down. Haven't heard from them yet but I did hear from someone who wants to pick up the pile of wood (roughly half of a cord) so they can use it for firewood. That'll take a worry off of my mind.
