~~There Will Be A Test Later~~

Today's high temperature was: 20

Sunny

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It was the crack of dawn--well, 8:00, and the phone woke me up.  It was Dar.

"Is your power out?" I could hear the panic in her voice.
"Let me check."  I looked at my clock.  "No--everything seems to be working here."
"My power just went out...in the whole house!"
I got up and looked out the window to make sure her place wasn't on fire.....
"Tell me what you were doing when the power went out."
"I was drying my hair in the bathroom...and the dryer just quit working."
"Did it get overheated?"
"I don't know--it smelled kind of funny."
"Okay--go out in your kitchen and see if you have power there."
"OH MY GOSH--what am I going to do?  My hair is sticking straight up!"
"Are you in the kitchen?"
"No--okay, I'm walking.  Okay, I'm here--what do you want me to do?"
"See if your lights work."
"Yes...they do.  Now--this is strange. "
"Is the refrigerator working?"
"I think so...the light came on when I opened the door."
"Okay--what about in your living room.  See if the lamps work."
"Yes--the lamps work, but my TV won't come on."
"Okay.  Go back into the bathroom."
"I'm walking....okay, I'm here."
"The outlet you had your dryer plugged into...."
"Okay, just a minute.  Yes, I've got the dryer plugged back in."
"No!  Unplug the hair dryer from the plug."
"Okay--I thought you said to plug it in."
"Dar--you aren't listening because you are upset.  Take a deep breath--calm down and we will take this one step at a time."
"Ah...okay."
"Look at the outlet where you had the dryer plugged into."
"You mean the switch plate?"
"The outlet--the plug, where the dryer was plugged into."
"Okay---I'm looking."
"Does it have another plug-in place on that same....ah...switch plate?"
"Yes.  Just below the first plug place is another one--each of them have two holes--like where you plug things in."
"Great!  Now between those two plug-in places, is there two flat sort of buttons?"
"Yes...one is white and one is red."
"Great!  Is the red one sort of sticking out--not flat against the.....ah switch plate, button sticking out a bit?"
"Yes."
"Okay, push it back in so it is flat like the white one."
"Okay--it clicked when I pushed it in...is that okay?"
"Yes--that is perfect."
"Thanks.  I'm going to get the hair dryer again........"
"WAIT!"

"Oh--what?  I plugged the dryer in and turned it on and it won't start and that red button is sticking out again."
"Throw the damn hair dryer in the trash!  It's fried!   Every time you plug it in, it will trip that button and stop anything connected to that electrical line from working."
"Well-what do I do now?"
"Push the reset.....ah the red button back in.  Go get something else...like a small lamp or ...whatever to plug in and see if it works."
"I have a curling iron...would that work?"
"Sure--plug it in and see if it comes on."
"I did, but the red light isn't coming on."
"Did you push in the red button on the...switch plate?"
"Oh--okay..I did now and the light came on the curling iron!  YAY!"
"Okay--you're all set."
"I'm in the living room...guess what..."
"Your TV is working--right?"
"Yeah--it is.  Why did this happen?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah...so if it happens again I will know what to do."
"Okay--any plug in your bathroom or kitchen that is near a water source, by law, has to have a reset button, so that if it gets wet, it will disconnect the electricity running to that plug.  Your TV went off because it must be on the same electrical line as your bathroom plug.  Your hair dryer malfunctioned, or over heated, or shorted out because something is wrong with it.  That tripped the reset button in that plug.  That little red button pops out to indicate that the electricity has been cut off--so you won't get a shock or a fire.  You have to push it back in to get the electricity running to that line again."
"Oh my gosh...hmmmm...I have a plug in my kitchen that won't work...I wonder.      Guess what--the red flat button is sticking out!  Mm--there I just pushed it in."
"Well, when you have a chance, plug something into THAT plug and see if it now works.  Do you want me to bring over my hair dryer?"
"No.  I have another one--in the other bathroom.  Thanks."  <click>

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I got busy after that--did the laundry and played with my new toy.

 as you can tell--I like a little bread with my butter.

When I was growing up, these are the kind of Woodpecker's we had--Red-Headed--now they seem to have become rare--although Susan and Chuck said they have one that appears occasionally, and my friend Becky, got a photo of one today at her feeders.  I haven't seen one in years--this is a Google Image.

These are the kind I get at my feeders

The Downy and the Red Bellied Ladder Backs.

Late this afternoon, I made the Tuna-Mac casserole that I like so well--which amazes me because I don't really care for Tuna Fish.  I had a chunk for supper and 6 more suppers left over.  This freezes and re-heats so well.

Can you believe the price of groceries?  The price of meat?  I got a chuck roast the other day--2 pounds at $5 something a pound!  EGAD!!  I cut it in half and cooked half all day in the Crock Pot and put in some potatoes/carrots/onions and I have had two meals from it and two in the freezer, plus the other half in the freezer--so it won't have cost too much when I  have used it all.  I do not know how families can afford to eat!!!.

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Okay, today's test.  If you read this post--it is MANDATORY that you leave a comment.  Just your name and City and State is okay, but I have readers on here from Oklahoma and Kansas and other places and you never comment so I have no idea who you are!!!  

You see--over on the right side-bar there is a list of places from where people drop in--but no names--IT DRIVES ME NUTZ wondering who you all are.  You don't have to have a blog to leave your name and City/State in the comment. 

So please--tell me who and where you are from?  thanks!!









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