Our heat pump has been on the fritz off and on for the last three weeks. This is bad as it has been quite warm during that time and it is getting up to 80 F in the house. We keep it at a balmy 70 F year round inside the house. Our HVAC guy has been out a few times trying to figure it out. He messaged and said he would be out on Wednesday. Around noon he texts me the above picture of our border collie trapping a coop up on the fence post. I asked him to shoot it but he did not have a weapon on him. Our house is loaded with them so instructions were given where to find said tool. Before he could find one the housekeeper showed up and went out and dispatched the coon. It had jumped off the post and climbed up into the large tree before she got back out. This did not slow her down. Not only did she dispatch it she made sure to dispose of the body! It doesn’t get any better than that.
It turns out that we have a bulb valve that failed. I think that is what you call it. It’s basically a temperature valve that opens and closes with temperature. It is the same thing that went bad 2-3 years ago. This is not ideal but he did find a replacement for our 18 years old heat pump and we do not have to buy a new heat pump! It will hopefully be fixed in another week, the part has to be shipped in from somewhere a long ways away.
I have an air mattress all set up in the office so Annmarie can get some rest. The only real problem is neither of us can remember where the lit glass horse light control remote is located in the office. It is wired into the inset in the wall so you cannot just unplug it to turn it off. The trade off to sleep in a cool environment was worth the light changing colors all night.
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