Overview: No water or propane, extra work, Ask Me Another
Today is a day of lessons learned:
1) When the temperatures get below freezing (it was 25 last night), the water in your hose turns to ice! (duh!!!) So we woke up to no water today to wash with or flush the toilet (thank goodness I still had water in the tea kettle!). Lesson - always keep a few gallons of water in the fresh water tank so you can put the water pump on and use the internal supply when the city supply isn't available (like when boondocking or when it's frozen).
2) We have 2 heat sources: heat pump (electric: reverse a/c) and furnace (gas). We learned that the heat pump doesn't work under 38 degrees but that it automatically switches over to gas. We were pretty warm during the night, until we ran out of propane in the tank it was using. Fortunately, we have 2 propane tanks so were able to switch over, even though it meant getting out of bed in the freezing cold.
Otherwise, I got hit with a rush job this morning which took away some time from my other rush project. We're also going on an outing tonight with the kids (a live taping of one of our favorite NPR trivia shows: "Ask Me Another") so we need to leave somewhat early. So why am I posting on the blog now? Back to work.....
Ask Me Another was a lot of fun:
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