{"id":13296,"date":"2024-02-04T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2024-02-04T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:18:49","slug":"january-thaw-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13296","title":{"rendered":"January Thaw & the house"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I sent sister Peggy for her birthday:\"\" Had I really sent such things I would be much poorer. In the lower center is a blooming shamrock. {We have an Irish Grandmother.}
\nHaving no idea how to obtain a shamrock, I just called her and wished her well.<\/p>\n

In her honor, I went and got a haircut, so I am no longer an Albert Einstein\/Bernie Sanders look-a-like.\"\"The site, Bored Panda, linked to here has interesting snow photos:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/freezing-cold-winter-temperature-pics\/?cexp_id=87417&cexp_var=9&_f=featured
\n\"\"
\nThe ice and snow one has redundancies. I found this one more interesting:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/stupid-people-work\/<\/p>\n

Work on the house: {including stupid people at work<\/em>}
\nWater (snow melt) has been dripping from the roof onto the covered patio at the back sliding door. Today is the third time we have tried to figure out what is happening. Will 3 be the charm? It has been a frustrating thing because why it drips isn’t apparent. Until the roof was put over the patio there wasn’t any notion of a problem. Something might have been going on prior to the new cover. With the new covering, there should not be dripping.\"\"<\/p>\n

A hypothesis today is that water is running along a metal flange at the roof’s edge after flowing down a “valley” – – photo:
\nAt noon, the roof is torn apart, problems found and so, Fix#3 is underway.<\/p>\n

New (LED) ceiling lights are being installed in the kitchen. Adjustable colors are built-in to the lights and the wall switch can be a dimmable type. There are two types of adjustable color temperature LEDs: those that shift to the lower temperatures when you dim, referred to as \u201cwarm glow\u201d or \u201cwarm dim,\u201d and those that are adjustable at any intensity, which are referred to as \u201cselectable color temperature.\u201d Bedroom lights, also LED, will be dimmable at the wall switch; or just on\/off. [Well, that didn’t happen.] <\/p>\n

The kitchen lights will be above translucent panels (with a pattern the supplier calls Mosaic Highway<\/strong> <\/span>). The color temperature switch has 3 settings so one will have to be chosen with the idea that it will be semi-permanent. I’ll have to leave a note for any new resident as to how it can be changed.
\nThe options are 3,000, 4,000, and 5,000 K {temperature}. For now the wall-switch is standard on\/off. The lights are “warm glow” capable and give a golden appearance to the entire 4’x8′ opening.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Under the heading “There is always something” \u2026
\nWith a new light in a bedroom and a dimmer switch installed and all working fabulously . . . a few minutes later nothing in the room worked.. . . and the ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) just outside on the wall failed. An attempted reset “clicked” but that didn’t help. Flipping circuit breakers in the house panel didn’t help. But, we did know enough to stop.
\nNext day we requested a visit by Todd, local master electrician, who solved all the problems in the time it took him to shake his head three times and look at us in a disdainful manner.
\nWe also determined the newly installed light was not of the dimmable type and\/or the dimmer switch was incompatible. Another light \u2013 claiming to be dimmable \u2013 did not work either. For that one, the directions give a web site to learn what switches will work, so, more to do.
\nAt this point, all the lights in the house are energy efficient light-emitting diodes {LEDs}. A small shed \u2013 where lights are rarely needed \u2013 still has screw-in fixtures (E27 type) patented in 1881 by Thomas Edison. I have bulbs. <\/p>\n

If a parent tells you their child is an angel, remind them that so was Lucifer.<\/p>\n

Here the “January Thaw” is not very strong, but still appreciated. <\/p>\n

Keeping Track
\non the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n

John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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