Month: April 2023

I have an old shed that I use for all my potting equipment.

All winter long, I would have my plants in the spare room, lights shining on them twelve hours a day, and the room heated to seventy degrees.

I collect everything I need to separate my plants and repot them in the spring, and it all gets stored in the shed. Many of my succulents and small vegetable plants get sold, but I always keep some to keep the business growing. Last month, I went to the shed to get out my peat pots and succulent soil. I noticed there was water on the floor and the roof had light shining through. A branch had come off the tree and was sticking through the roof. I told my husband I needed a new roof on the shed. He told me it would probably be cheaper to buy a new shed, but I didn’t want to hear it. I just wanted a new roof. I had all the equipment I needed to replant, and we built the shelves with tubs so I could empty the potting soil into them and not waste any of it. My husband told me he was going to call the roofers and see what it would cost to put a new roof on the shed. If he made that statement, I knew he was considering the new roof. It was a small roof, and I was sure I could pay for it with the money I paid for it with the money I make from my plants.

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I recently moved back to my home state.

I moved to the South to go to college for 4 years, but I ended up staying another 4 years after that because of the job I found. But once I got remote work and wasn’t tied down to that area, it seemed nicer to me thinking about moving back home. I had that experience living out of my home state away from my family, and I was ready to go back and see them all. On top of that, the rent is a lot more affordable near my parents’ hometown. I really hated paying high rent rates in the city I was living in during college. It was hard to afford living in an apartment when rent prices were higher than many other places in the country. So that made it a lot easier to move back home. Unfortunately the weather is sort of extreme in the winter season in this part of the country. I have a decent furnace in my home, but that’s not good enough if the power goes out. A lot of us use wood stoves and fireplaces to burn wood and the time of a power outage. A random blizzard can throw your power out in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping. Then you’d wake up shivering, or never wake up at all. Some people die of hyperthermia in their sleep because they don’t have adequate heat when they need it the most. You don’t necessarily need two heating systems if you live up north, but it’s certainly smart.

 

 

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My sister’s been visiting me a lot more now that she moved back to our home state.

• She lives about an hour away, but she drives into my city to make frequent stops at the large shopping mall here.

There are special stores in that mall that she can’t find anywhere else on this side of the state. It also gives her an excuse to stop by my house and say hi to myself and my wife. Sometimes my sister even brings freshly cooked food with her. Lately my sister’s been frustrated because of the men in her life. She has been through several different failed relationships over the past 5 years. I always tell her that she should go down to the convention center one of these nights when they’re having a concert outside. It’s actually usually a great place to mingle with people our age who are single. I’d rather my sister go there than stay at my house during an HVAC service visit and hit on the HVAC technician. I’m not even sure if I’m going to be able to keep my contract with this heating and cooling company because the HVAC technician looked clearly uncomfortable by my sister’s advances. I tried to tell her to stop several times, but she wouldn’t listen to me. I’m just mortified at the thought of that forage back technician going back to his job and telling his boss at the heating and cooling company that a client’s family member was making romantic advances on him. I’m sure the HVAC technician just wanted to do this job and get the air conditioning service complete in as little time as possible.

 

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After a long time of consideration I finally made up my mind that I’m ready to upgrade to another thermostat.

I’ve been hesitant and holding back for a long time because I’ve been comfortable and used to using the same thermostat.

I have to admit that I am a creature of habit and because of this when I’m used to using something a certain way I don’t respond to change, however change is just a part of life and I realize that I was going to have to get used to it at some point. This realization was becoming more and more apparent as I noticed that my current thermostat was starting to break down and give me issues more and more and I started to see that I was going to have to replace it sooner or later. After it broke down for the third time and I had a heating and AC guy come out and fix it I had decided enough was enough, I was not only going to get another thermostat but I was going to get a brand new one too. A better one, an upgraded one. I think I’m going to go and get a smart thermostat. What I love about programmable thermostats like smart thermostats is that they are very easy to control, and you can really set them to anything you want. I’m just going to use mine to tell my heating and cooling system to turn on when I’m home and turn off when I’m not at home. In the summer months I’ll have the AC on in the winter months. It’ll help me save some money and I’ll have a modern thermostat like everybody else. I have no issue having older things but when they start to break down it’s time to replace it.

 

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When my heater went out last winter it was the last thing I would have ever expected to have. All I know is that I had went to bed all warm and toasty. As comfortable as I could possibly be, however when I woke up to feeling was completely different. I woke up and I managed to throw the covers completely off of me in my sleep. The moment I was aware of the coldness touching my skin I felt my entire body I immediately reached for my covers only to see if they had fallen off the side of the bed or onto the floor. As soon as I sat up to pick them up off the floor I took a breath and I could see my breath! If it was so cold I guess my breath inside the house I knew something was very very wrong. The first thing I did was very quickly grabbed my jacket and put on a thicker pair of pants. Then I ran out into the living room to see what was going on with the thermostat. Obviously something wasn’t working perfect thermostat if I was this cold and my assumptions were correct. Because the moment that I got out into the living room and took a look at the thermostat I saw that it was saying that it was 60 degrees in the house! I couldn’t believe it I tried everything I could try to get my heater to work. I have a smart thermostat so I tried turning it on for my phone, I tried pressing the buttons on the thermostat manually, I tried turning it off and back on again and nothing that I tried worked. I was so upset my heater was busted! So I did what anybody would have to do in this situation and I called emergency HVAC services. When the heating and cooling guy arrived he told me that it was my thermostat that was actually broken and not my heater which gave me some relief. It’s much easier to replace the thermostat than it is replacing a heater.

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Isn’t it interesting how two different people can have such vastly different temperature preferences? What may be too cold for one person and too hot for another? While most of these things come down to biology and personality, it always made me wonder why some people are completely fine with walking around, or even swimming when it is snowy and cold outside.

You would think that they get cold, however that does not seem to be the case.

If anything they look like they are having a good time. I find it to be strange. It’s strange when you see a stranger do it, but it is even stranger when it is someone that you know. In my case the person that I know is my girlfriend and she really does love the cold. So much so that she feels the need to put the air conditioner on full blast and while she is enjoying her arctic paradise, I’m over here freezing! She is also the kind to swim when it is snowing. Somehow she is not bothered by the cold. I can’t sleep with these cold temperatures so I have resorted to dressing warmly just so I can get some shut eye. In my opinion and temperature is too cold and I think the two of us I should discuss it and come to an agreement so that I can be comfortable too. It’s fine if she wants to have a room to herself that’s a cold, but in our shirts faces it needs to be at room temperature, because I’m not sure how much longer I can take this icy cold air conditioning system. It makes me miserable and I can’t get any sleep.

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