Day 22

I got up at 7:45 this morning.  For some reason I woke up and felt like getting up.

I spoke too soon about there being nothing wrong w/the house.  When we woke up the washer was making a buzzing noise.  Ellen tried to start a load, but it threw an error code.  She found someone who could come in the afternoon.

After breakfast I put the charger back on the car battery.  Then I moved all of the stuff from under the bed out of the trailer.  I went up into the attic while it was still cool and located what I think is the data input cable (it's marked "HSD").  I'm not for sure because everything is covered with insulation.  I cut it, put in a new connector, and fished it down to a new rf connector plate in the wall.  I picked the area with the space behind the wall, so it wasn't too difficult.

After that while Ellen cleaned the trailer I got started on the yard work.  I edged around the trailer, the parking area, and along the sidewalk.  I also replaced some of the boundary rocks and cleaned up all of the leaves in the entry way.  By then it was 12:30 and time for lunch. 

We went to the Post Office and then to Fireman's.  We had to order take out so that we could get back for the washer repairman.  When we got back I decided to take the afternoon off and read.

The washer repairman came.  After working for about an hour he said he couldn't fix the washer without order very expensive parts that he wasn't sure would fix it.  At least he didn't charge us anything.  While he was doing that Ellen was looking for cars.  Lola came over with our mail and we gave her a $20 tip to go with what we paid her before.  She spent quite a while petting Lucy.  Lucy was in heaven.

Ellen found out on the web that the most likely cause of the washer failure was the leak it had earlier.  The water corrodes the control board.  It's new washer time.  I'm not happy.

While Ellen worked on cars I went out to the back yard to pick up yard art.  While I was there I noticed that several small trees that had been killed in the drought were snapped off at ground level.  Also the fence was falling down because the cable holding it up had broken (more former owner bullshit).  So I threw the trees and some other dead branches over the fence (so much for resting).

When I got back inside Ellen had a quote for the car.  The price isn't bad, but with $1250 in additional incentives it's great.  The downside is we have almost no equity in the Hyundai.  I called them up and made an appointment to see them tomorrow.  The incentives expire tomorrow.

To cap off the evening we went to Lowe's to buy a new washer.  Unfortunately it will be two weeks before they have one in stock.  Oh well.