September 22 – “What’s so bad about being hasty?”

So … what’s so bad about being hasty?  More about that in a sec …

 

We hit the water early yesterday and Chris was with me this time.  She was not as excited as I was. She was still shaking in her boots after the report on how cold the water was the time before.  But it had a whole week to warm back up.  So she was rewarded.  The water was fine.  A cold front did blow in last night, though.  That was all the buzz in the water yesterday among the aerobicizers.  Really windy today and 75 degrees.  How cold will the water be?  Will Chris even get in?  Will she turn blue if she does?  Tune in …

 

I went up to the church to make sure our retired electrician guy could get in.  He was checking all the lights to make sure there was no further water damage on that end.  He was also checking out what it will take to fix the lights that are out both upstairs and downstairs.  He also recommended switching to LED lights.  Said it was a lot cheaper in the long run.  Second time I have heard that in a week. 

 

Now back to the “hasty” comment.  While I had his captive attention (He was up on a ladder.  Where’s he gonna go?), I asked about our freezer saga and the issues there.  He assured me the heating up was not an unusual thing.  It has to do that when it runs its self defrost cycle to dry out the excess moisture.  The power outage just equaled an extended defrost cycle as far as the machine was concerned.  The hot phase would pass just like the terrible twos or the troubled teens – merely a phase.  With his assurance, we plugged it back in again.  Well, sure enough, it did get hot (but not nearly as hot as before).  We watched it carefully, and it eventually cooled back down.  Now we let it do its cooling thing for a day before filling it back up.  Looks like we have a freezer again.  Looks like Chris really does have the magic touch, after all.  On again.  Off again.  On again.

 

Speaking of sagas …

How about the internet/cable TV/house phone issues?  AT&T was back again first thing to continue their work.  They had to run entirely new fiber optic cable and replace the junction box where all the cables from individual houses plug in.  We were pretty excited when the guy finally started his climb up the ladder to plug us in.  Up the ladder.  Back down and into the house.  Nope.  Not it.  Back up the ladder.  Back down and into the house.  Nope.  Not it.  Did you know there are four possible ports that our junction box can handle?  He finally hit ours … on the fourth try, of course. If anybody asks … we are port three.  But … once again we have internet, a house phone, and cable TV.  Now what channel were the Astros on?

 

Psalms 34:19 says, “The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.”

 

Father, thank you for Jim and his encouragement about leaving the freezer on through the “hot phase.”  And thank you for watching over those linemen.  Be with them through their next adventures as well.  Amen.