Another hot day in Central Kentucky
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Comments (8)Stay warm y'all. My work group is in Rochester, MN today. They were all sad they had to take real coats with them on the plane. We'll be 55-75 degrees the next two days. Not so for them. Lows in the 30s. me too! flea coughs/thunderstorms. Cool! I am so tired of cold hands in winter down here, I decided to go online and buy some real gloves. They're enroute to me. They better be warmer! I figured that out stuff we have available to us is puny and weak for winter. You should see what they sell here that pass for "ice scrapers". You would be better off using a credit card. Once I got one offline, it slides right off. Why don't they think we get cold and icy? We do! Not like I live in Miami....See MoreBeautiful Day in Central CA
Comments (12)California Hot Springs in Tulare County, up in Sequoia National Forest, it's about equal distance between Visalia and Bakersfield in the mountains east of there. The "town" is a post office and California Hot Springs Resort and that's it. All told there are 200 residents spread out in the little community that are ranchers and retired people and people who commute to Visalia, Porterville and Bakersfield and other places to work. Folks from LA like to come up and have cabins and vacation homes up there. We had a home up there for 13 years, we moved up there when my husband became the resident deputy for a couple of years. The night the trees came down it had rained heavy all day and then changed to snow, the weight of the snow I think was the last straw, they sounded like cannons going off as they fell. The next day I went for a walk with the dog through the woods and the roots of those trees were 10+' tall and more where they broke off out of the ground, unbelievable, they lay like match sticks, huge match sticks. If you like camping there's a really nice campground for RV's or tents a couple of miles below the Resort to stay at with a creek running by it. There is also an RV park across the street from the Resort but it's very basic. The Resort is is an old building with alot of history that has a giant swimming pool that they pipe the hot springs water into that they hold the water rights to and have year round swimming in with two hot tubs. They do charge to go swimming too, it's a business. The water comes in at 130 degrees and they cool it down to swimming temp, it's wonderful water. In the winter they keep it warmer and in the summer a little cooler. Inside the Resort is a deli, a gift shop and a little grocery store. They used to bottle and sell the water. About 20 miles up, I believe that's the distance, is where the Trail of 100 Giants is where President Clinton came and declared it a National Monument several years ago. My husband was there and part of the entourage that day. We sold his extra presidential pin of the day on E-Bay:) I did get nice gentle rain soaking in, I've been out to pull weeds twice now. Yesterday and today, they come up out of the clay better with a little water on them:) Course I'm gong to get alot more now, but that's ok, my plants and bulbs are all cheering too, I'm getting a bunch of them poking their little noses out now. Yea, after all the brown, some green! Leslie...See MoreIntroduction from sunny central Kentucky...
Comments (21)Welcome, Cottage Fairy! I'm relatively new here, myself, and my garden is definitely in the progress stage! (Moved last fall...) We planted morning glories for the first time last year, and the kids loved them, so I planted some under our new cherry tree. No seedlings yet, but I only did it recently. What I'm now wondering is, are morning glories and moonflowers ever both open at the same time, or do you get one and then the other? That was the thing I didn't like about the morning glories - by the time I got home from work, they were closed! I really only got to appreciate them on the weekend, alas. (Same with my blue flax, which is part of why I'm not planting it at the new house, btw.) So, I like the idea of evening blooming flowers... (This is also part of why I planted so many white flowers in my new border, which is pretty far from the house - I'm hoping I'll be able to see them from inside in the evening!)...See MoreCentral Unit running all day
Comments (7)I agree , the thermostat and or thermostat wiring is really messed up if the heat and cool were running at the same time . My understanding is you have electrical resistance heat ? You turned off the circuit breaker feeding the heat . Depending on the amount of resistance heat you have , it is possible you have a couple of heat strips and a couple of circuit breakers feeding them . For instance a 10 kw and a 5 kw heat strip ? Or , perhaps you still have not turned off the correct circuit breaker ? Part of the reason I say that , is , on straight resistance heat with A/C , you usually have 240 VAC feeding the out door unit and a separate 240 VAC circuit feeding the indoor unit . ( Maybe , possibly two 240 VAC circuits feeding the indoor unit , it if has more than about 10 kw of resistance heat . ) Commonly , the inside fan , control transformer and controls are feed from the same 240 VAC feeding the first 10 kw of heat . If you turn off that circuit breaker , it kills the control transformer , thus the 24 VAC control power and nothing works . ( It is possible , some units may have the control transformer in the outdoor unit , or maybe , even both ? ) So , check this out . Lastly , it is possible , with multiple heat strips , to run , say , a 90 amp circuit breaker & wire to the indoor unit to feed , say a 10 kw and a 5 kw strip heat . In this case , the indoor unit will have one or more circuit breakers , in the unit , to sub-divide the power . Or , a couple of fuse blocks and fuses to do the same thing . But , do make sure you get the thermostat wiring straightened out . God bless Wyr...See More- 2 years ago
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