WA HOO FarmerChick

[FarmerChick]

Good Morning


woke up tired. You know that feeling? I will be hard pressed to get a fast active day happening

Kinda cloudy with that feeling of 'something gonna happen'. Rain moving in and this day has that super blah feeling. I love to wake up to sunshine!


Water Heater experiment. Total hours off yesterday totaled 11. I am surprised how easily I got thru the day. When I needed it I turned it only 1/2 hr. before I wanted hot water in the kitchen. Washed my few dishes etc. and turned it off again. Very simple. Turned it on last night at 11:45 before going to bed. Hubby did not wake me up at 4:30 yelling about no hot water.... So basically I will strive for as many hrs. off each day as I can fit into our schedule.


Working as usual throughtout the day. Will go outside and clean inside of car a bit. Seems kiddos toy are clogging the back seat again.
Give the dashboard a wipe down etc. Nothing major.


Gonna be one of those quiet slow days today.


everyone enjoy this fine day!!

 

[FarmerChick]

WOW alot of color gray on the board in these threads.


but I had to get my neighbor Dave. The contractor. He built by back mudroom and tv room addition.

I screwed up ---ta da---the water heater circuit breaker. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?

I went to turn it on a bit ago and it would not snap back into place. water was lukewarm. Kiddo needs a bath for school tomorrow so I was going to throw her in now.

hubby at work so I thought Dave is home!

He got it set back. He said not to trip it over and over again turning on and off. The small spring in there can't take it. He said he will install a timer for me. So in a week he will buy a timer, pop over and install. Timers are about $40 he said, well worth it. He said by shutting down from say 8 pm to 4 am every day, 7 days per week will save me in the range of $40-45. He said timer will pay for itself first 6 weeks basically.


SO AS much as it kills me to discontinue my experiment....I am stopping til next week til I get the timer.

Experiment update--ON HOLD

As soon as that timer is in the first month I will report back.


oh house drama stinks!

 

[Marianne]

The timer will save that much money? Wow! That's well worth it, send the guy over here, k?

That's a far cry from what other so called 'experts' have told us, huh.

Sorry about the breaker. Now that it crapped out, I remember DH telling me years ago that each time you trip it, it gets weaker. Is it a special timer that he's installing, like made to be used on water heaters?

You need to post this on the energy area of the forum, too. I'm sure there are people that don't read journals. Keep us updated, k?

 

[FarmerChick]

you know marianne I have been told both ways and read both ways. yes it saves great money, no it does not save enough worth bothering.

truly, without just doing it, I don't know who to believe. But I have to say Dave gives me good info so I think at this point all I can do is 'just do it'

I know the timers are in the WH section and not sure if they are exclusive or can be used elsewhere.


I think at this point I want to try anything, so I am going to commit to a few bucks and get 'er done and see what happens???


why does something so little ALWAYS snowball into such a PITA. nothing is easy. Just want to save a buck and the stupid little plan grows to where I have to make too many decisions. bleck

 

[Marianne]

Dave's sold me and I don't even know the guy.
I'm going to check them out the next time we get to town.

 

[FarmerChick]

I SO WISH Tony could install it but honestly I don't trust him. With Dave it will be a minute installation and correct.
With Tony it would be a crapshoot and a sleepless night wondering it is going to explode or something

Tony is bad with electric I must say. He can put up 100 acres of fencing, no problem. One light switch and I can't trust him.

 

[FarmerChick]

I'm up and wandering.

Get shook awake by Tony at 4:45 am. Went to bed at 12. My eyes are falling out of my head

Dead truck battery. He told me he is taking my Endeavor. I am trapped, stranded, alone with no vehicle. I don't like that. I want my SUV in the drive if I want to leave on a whim.

Eh, it is cool tho. His job is more important. He has 2 more days of work and then he will check out the battery.

I thought about going back to sleep but heck in just a few my kids alarm will ring for school so why bother right?

Gonna be a long day and somewhere I think a nap will be taken. Ah, a nap. Rare but wonderful thing!



off to wander a bit more.

 

[snapshot]

I'm up at 5 too. Only place I wander is to the coffee pot! We have only had one vehicle for about 5 years now--hope to get a second one again soon! I am stranded every day until about 1 pm. DH is off chasing and feeding cows. When we are moved, he will be chasing them about half a mile away from me!!!! Yay!!!!

Hope you have a great day!!!!!

 

[Marianne]

Remember when you used to hate to take a nap?

I remember hitting the panic button when I had no wheels for a brief time. My car was in the shop, DH left to go out of town for five days.

By day three, the shop still didn't know what was going on with my car. I was pacing the house by noon. For pete's sake, we lived in town, neighbors all around us and three short blocks to a grocery store. But it was just the thought of not being able to go anywhere!

Now? Eh. I don't have the need to leave the property very often. We had three months of repair bills on both vehicles last year. Seemed like something was always going wrong. DH took whatever was running at the time and I was okay with not having wheels for a few days.

Friends offered to come and get me if anything happened. (me: Help! I cut myself and I'm bleeding to death! them: Okay, we'll be there in 40 minutes to get'cha!)

 

[FarmerChick]

that isn't too bad snapshot. at least around 1 you had that vehicle back. I often thought of going to one vehicle but that will never happen. We have to have the big truck for camper and farm and no way I can have nothing. hey, I have too much to do
I gotta find a way to do less


boy I bet you can't wait til you move!!! the anticipation has got to be crazy to handle!!