At our new house in southern wisconsin, I can buy farm fresh eggs at five farms within 4 minutes of the house. Shockingly most of the small hobby farms are selling free range, organic, farm fresh eggs for just $4 a dozen. They are outstanding, and its really spoiled us!
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AC is not only not working, it seems to be heating instead of cooling. I turned it off and it still won't cool off in here. It's up to 88° but it's only 74° outside. I've opened windows and turned on fans. I turned the furnace fan off because it was only making things hotter, but my brother keeps turning it back on and every time he does the temperature goes up instead of down. Not sure what is wrong. Hope we don't have a coolant leak or something. It was working fine until Mom turned the heat on when it got cold.
We get all our eggs from the local farmers as well. Brown eggs, white, eggs, green eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs and goose eggs. I'll never eat an Eggland's Best egg if I can help it. I wanted to buy an ostrich egg but we don't have a skillet large enough to handle it. We may pay a little more but I like supporting our local farmers.
Zanne, not sure what to make of your HVAC issues. Do you heat with natural gas, electricity or fuel oil? If oil or gas you would be able to cut off the fuel supply to prevent any unwanted heating until you got it looked into. If electric (resistance) heat you could always throw the breaker to eliminate any unwanted heating. Weird stuff!
(PS. Keep your brother's mitts off the controls if at all possible.)
(PS. Keep your brother's mitts off the controls if at all possible.)
Probably a bad thermostat. That can make your heat stay on even tho you have the switch to cool.
One time my wife got mixed up when she wanted to turn up the AC and, instead of lowering the setting on the thermostat, she turned it up.
That seems to be what it was. Capacitors were fine but the compressor wouldn't kick on. I got a Honeywell thermostat with a great screen so I can actually read the damn thing-- old one was made in like 2004 and was installed around 2010. It had not been turning the fan on or off reliably for awhile. I drove up and grabbed the Honeywell from Lowes & my friend installed it for me. My old one had 7 wires and Honewell only needed the 6 (said to leave one off if it went to a certain port). It started working within minutes and is now down to 72° (which is not too hot or too cold). I was able to close the windows. Everyone in the house is feeling much better now. Mom gave our friend some $ for paying bills and to thank him for the help. She was going to give him $ anyway bc his bank was screwing him. He finally closed all accounts with that bank. They charged him overdraft fees for things that were charged AFTER money was put in his account (before 3pm). They claimed they hadn't processed the deposit yet but they processed those charges-- they also allowed companies to bill him early. He had it set so they weren't supposed to be able to charge until they were actually due but some of the places charged early (before his paycheck landed). So, he got a new bank online.
It's so nice to have the house cooled off again.
Forgot to mention, my system is completely electric with a heat pump.
Zanne, that's good to hear! Not being very smart about heat pumps, I suspect the compressor still needs to run when the system is "pumping heat" from the outside to the inside so maybe the emergency strip heat was kicking in to heat up your house. Anyway, glad you got the thing running and we like our Honeywell color screen WIFI-enabled T-stat as well. We were able to turn the heat back on all the way from Sydney, Australia, and bring the house back from a 55-degree setting when we did Christmas and New Years "Down Under". PS, ours only uses five (5) wires.
I love my WI-fi enabled thermostat as well. My A/C guy also upgraded it to scroll pictures from our vacations when it is on resting mode, and will dim down to almost dark during preset night times. It also has a messaging system, so you can send messages to be read when you walk by it. Yeah, it is an overkill, but fun to use.
Very nice. Mine's not that fancy but at 2:30 am each morning it does a "negative" of the screen image to protect the screen from "burn in". This first time I saw it I thought the display went away.
The sad part was the fact that nobody was able to figure out the newfangled computer lingo, so the A/C installed brought in his 12 year old son, who installed it in about 2 minutes. He is such a knowledgeable kid, that currently he is 18 years and his dad gave him the $10 million dollar annual business.
Installed a stratum 1 NTP/PTP time server on my local network. I am not sure why, but I am comfortable knowing that the timing on my network can be resolved to within a couple of nanoseconds with respect to UT1 time. I needed to install an outdoor GPS antenna because, although I was seeing twelve satellites, the included "patch" antenna (set in a window) that was included with the time server wasn't able to resolve my location properly.
I thought of Zanne as my wife and I binge-watched a couple of Quinton Tarantino "Grindhouse" movies called "Death Proof" and "Planet Terror". A strong constitution are needed to get through these two movies.
My in-laws in Kyiv, Ukraine, continue to struggle with terror, power and water outages, etc., but they will never give up.
I thought of Zanne as my wife and I binge-watched a couple of Quinton Tarantino "Grindhouse" movies called "Death Proof" and "Planet Terror". A strong constitution are needed to get through these two movies.
My in-laws in Kyiv, Ukraine, continue to struggle with terror, power and water outages, etc., but they will never give up.
A high school friend of mine is just leaving Ukraine to take some more people to Poland. He posted some pics of the devastation over there. He was there with an organization providing food for people and he's been helping people evacuate to safety.
I think my thermostat can probably do some fancy stuff but right now all I care about is that it controls the temperature. LOL. Hopefully our power bill may go down now that the HVAC is being controlled properly.
I got up, fed the cats, went for early voting, got gas, picked up some groceries, got cow feed, fed the cows, got hooked in the side by an impatient cow, put away groceries, cooked, took my meds, and now I'm relaxing. I really love the air fryer we have. And now that my brother has his own rice cooker, I can use the pressure cooker while he uses the rice cooker. I can run the air fryer, microwave, and pressure cooker all at the same time. So now my brother can make beans in the large pressure cooker, rice in his rice cooker, and I can make something else in the smaller pressure cooker and cook in microwave and air fryer. Oh, and we have an electric kettle so I can boil water while the other appliances are in use.
Brain has been in zombie mode lately. Also, this site was messing up on my browser earlier.
As an aside, there was something on the ballot that was very weird but it was worded differently than this:
So, Slavery is illegal except when it's legal. The people in my district can already barely read or comprehend things. LOL.
I think my thermostat can probably do some fancy stuff but right now all I care about is that it controls the temperature. LOL. Hopefully our power bill may go down now that the HVAC is being controlled properly.
I got up, fed the cats, went for early voting, got gas, picked up some groceries, got cow feed, fed the cows, got hooked in the side by an impatient cow, put away groceries, cooked, took my meds, and now I'm relaxing. I really love the air fryer we have. And now that my brother has his own rice cooker, I can use the pressure cooker while he uses the rice cooker. I can run the air fryer, microwave, and pressure cooker all at the same time. So now my brother can make beans in the large pressure cooker, rice in his rice cooker, and I can make something else in the smaller pressure cooker and cook in microwave and air fryer. Oh, and we have an electric kettle so I can boil water while the other appliances are in use.
Brain has been in zombie mode lately. Also, this site was messing up on my browser earlier.
As an aside, there was something on the ballot that was very weird but it was worded differently than this:
So, Slavery is illegal except when it's legal. The people in my district can already barely read or comprehend things. LOL.
Good deal on your friend being over in Ukraine, probably Lviv, and helping those people. Regarding your power bill, electricity I assume, there's the possibility of a whole lot of cooking going on helping to drive the cost up as well. Your kitchen may need to be upgraded to a 30 amp service as well. Do y'all have natural gas in your area?
(I thought this website had the ability to add "smiley faces" and the like but I guess not.)
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Make sure some of your heat strips are not coming on when the air conditioner is running.
That can happen. You’ll be heating and cooling at the same time.
That can happen. You’ll be heating and cooling at the same time.
What you talking about Willis? Just click on the smiley face icon at the top of your post reply.
If you say so. I guess I need some more hand holding because all I see at the top right of my post is a counter-clockwise rotating arrow, three vertical dots which brings up "More Options" and a page with a magnifying glass on it. No smiley face icon. Could I have somehow turned them off in my "settings"? In any event, I like those that you provided especially the chicken.
What you talking about Willis? Just click on the smiley face icon at the top of your post reply.
Click on the 3 dots to expose all your options
I’ll delve into that tomorrow because I’m into some serious drinking as it 5 o’clock somewhere. Have a good rest of your weekend!
Party on Garth!
