Weekend Fun

We had a varied weekend of fun. Last week Dad and my cars' headlights both had problems, both on the L side. The cool thing is... my headlight costs $12 and I repaired it myself using the Miata picture repair manual. Dad's costs $700 for the whole thing, so he took it all apart and isolated the problem to a high energy light filament and it ONLY costs $130. We found one online for just under $100. So, soon we will be all repaired!

Next fun thing we did was to get the new (inexpensive) IKEA drapes up so I can pull them closed at night over the windows, do my Wii exercises, and keep some cold out.
Then, I altered another pair and found this very nice and sturdy shower curtain expandable rod at IKEA and was able to extend it to 83" and put them up without any nasty drilling and hanging off a ladder. Now when I sleep in the bedroom, that wicked street light that shines in my eyes every night for 30 years will be blocked and I won't have to close the door. Arnold LOVES to open the door up every night.
Elders came over on TH night and we had a fun Valentine's color dinner. 
And we found a little time to SKI down the slopes.

 

We give up!

OK, this says it all. It was warm and toasty in here from Sat to TH of this week and then we come home and it is 58 again. Argh!! Dad tries everything and we have decided to give up. We will just use the Propane heater (very effective but slightly smelly) and our 2 nice room heaters.

That way we will save a LOT on heating, the old behometh really is VERY inefficient. And we will have time to research stuff now and find a new furnace and probably get a great deal since the housing market is so awful. And it relieves some stress!!!!

What is it?

Hint #1 - it produces HEAT!

Hint #2 - it connects to something

Hint #3 - Dad made it. :) 

Give up? Look below... it is the way our heater works now. The above picture is our new heater thermostat! Bet you never would have guessed that one! Plug it in and the furnace turns on, unplug it and the furnace stops. Pretty simple and we have HEAT! Dad ran a long, heavy duty extension cord from the furnace up the stairs to the ledge in the front hall. He then plugged in 1/2 of the brown extension cord to each end. On one end it connects into the furnace circuitry and the other end is above to complete the circuit. As soon as we can afford it, we will get a new programmable thermostat, but after no heat for hearly 10 days, we are happy campers.