You'll have to pardon the lack of updates this week...I even started writing a great entry about all the stuff we did this weekend (brief rundown: planted a lot of wildflowers - that are already starting to sprout!; installed a water spicket outside in the basement - this required cutting the pipes and adding on new pipes AND waiting with bated breathe to see if water would come rushing out of the pipes and flood our basement...luckily Handyman T is still doing a great job!; and I'm sure we did a few more things, but they are escaping my mind now - I'll post this update with pics some other time). I've been a bit preoccupied since Tuesday when two wires that are never supposed to touch, well touched. They fused together and caused a power/electrical surge to go through our house resulting in many damaged goods and a small electrical fire in our freezer (who knew a freezer could catch fire - it seems counter-intuitive, but it happened and was very scary.) A bright light white and white smoke was coming out of the freezer and for an instant we both thought Jesus was going to come out of our freezer and that it was THE big white light and the tunnel that leads you to you know where! Luckily, the white light quickly extinguished and Mr. Cob and I are still around to talk about it. Sadly we have lost some valuables and some very sentimental items, but no one was hurt and we are both not too worse for the wear.
Tonight, we go refrigerator shopping...I usually love shopping, but this I'm not looking forward to. Any suggestions on a good fridge?
Were there any other items damaged beside the refrigerator damaged due to the power surge? I hope not. You'll have to pass on to your sister-in-law the ins and outs of buying a fridge. She'll be buying one in the near future. I'm sure she filled you in on her exciting news. Another nest building is going on in Illinois. We are all excited but "out nest" will be full again during the summer and fall months. Lots of signets to look after again. I love it.
ReplyDeleteAside for the fridge, all 3 TVs were ruined, the power cord to the piano (but not the piano!!!!), the handheld vaccuum, and the heater. But we just needed a new transformer for the heater - which we got yesterday and we were cleared this morning by the insurance company to buy the new fridge, so we'll be doing that in the next day or so!!!! All in all, it could have been A LOT worse! The computers were both fine and so far all the other major appliances are working just fine. It's been a headache, but could have been MUCH worse!
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