Hi guys. Bad day yesterday. Day before it was 60 degrees outside. Yesterday woke up to 32. I swear every joint, every muscle, every fingernail hurt. Even my hair hurt sort of day and nothing seemed to really help ease it off, not even tramadol.
I spent the day grumbling at everyone and everything. I did manage to get to the feed store. I'm sure helping load and unload the van didn't help my cause any. I feel better this morning. Some back pain but not as bad as it was yesterday.
Then last night was the final insult. I figured a long hot shower would help ease off the soreness, got in the shower, started lathering my hair and suddenly....no hot water. Well crap. We have an on demand hot water heater that we run off of 20 pound lp tanks. No plumbing for an lp tank outside. Our home is Amish built and we keep procrastinating as we would love to build a new home out on a hill in our pasture. The house now is solid built but has a lot of deficiencies that would basically take rebuilding it to correct. While the previous owner was a truly talented and gifted carpenter when it came to doing cabinetry and specialized moldings and wood work, he sucked at building homes.
When we considered how to simply run hot water to the bathroom and kitchen DH suggested we do like they do in Europe and run the on demand water heaters. It's pretty convenient but they depend on the smaller tanks unless we decide to run the plumbing and install a big LP tank....which is on the to do list but way down the list.
We keep hoping a straight line wind will lift the roof so we can get that dream house up on the hill, lol.
So I didn't get my hot shower. Quickly rinsed my hair with cold water and made a beeline out of the shower. The end of a not so good day.
But today is better. Pain is less, It's still cold but hey, it's winter! DH has an appointment in the morning at 7:30 to get the tanks filled at the MFA oil depot. Hot water on the stove so we are roughing it for a day.
I spent the day grumbling at everyone and everything. I did manage to get to the feed store. I'm sure helping load and unload the van didn't help my cause any. I feel better this morning. Some back pain but not as bad as it was yesterday.
Then last night was the final insult. I figured a long hot shower would help ease off the soreness, got in the shower, started lathering my hair and suddenly....no hot water. Well crap. We have an on demand hot water heater that we run off of 20 pound lp tanks. No plumbing for an lp tank outside. Our home is Amish built and we keep procrastinating as we would love to build a new home out on a hill in our pasture. The house now is solid built but has a lot of deficiencies that would basically take rebuilding it to correct. While the previous owner was a truly talented and gifted carpenter when it came to doing cabinetry and specialized moldings and wood work, he sucked at building homes.
When we considered how to simply run hot water to the bathroom and kitchen DH suggested we do like they do in Europe and run the on demand water heaters. It's pretty convenient but they depend on the smaller tanks unless we decide to run the plumbing and install a big LP tank....which is on the to do list but way down the list.
We keep hoping a straight line wind will lift the roof so we can get that dream house up on the hill, lol.
So I didn't get my hot shower. Quickly rinsed my hair with cold water and made a beeline out of the shower. The end of a not so good day.
But today is better. Pain is less, It's still cold but hey, it's winter! DH has an appointment in the morning at 7:30 to get the tanks filled at the MFA oil depot. Hot water on the stove so we are roughing it for a day.
