It's so yellow out there, we need it to rain, now! The pollen is crazy and early this year. If it would just rain like it is threatening to do, we'd be a lot better off.
I had a curious problem. We had the FM intercoms and they worked fine at the other (bigger) house, but when we got here, Todd's just wouldn't transmit or receive. So, I thought it was broken, but on a hunch, I thought maybe putting it on a power strip was the problem..... Flashback.
When Dad sent us the intercoms in Germany, we had to plug them into 120V transformers and plug adapters. The adapters could never accommodate grounded plugs (3 prongs) since Germany runs the ground through the common. So, I cut the ground prongs off, and they didn't work anyway since the transformers messed with them.
Flash forward now... I discovered that no matter what outlet IN Todd's room I used, I could not get it to communicate with the other units. When I plugged it in to the outlet in the hall, a mere 2 feet from his room, it worked beautifully! So, I cam to the conclusion his outlets were on another leg, and couldn't communicate. I figured tapping into the ground would fix that. I got a new ground plug end at Ace, and yup, it works!!!
So, now we don't have to yell for Todd. Two story houses should not be built without built-in intercoms anyway.
I think we have one last burn this weekend to get rid of the last of the brush. At this point, I think I'm done clearing out the weed trees. The rest can stay. Perhaps when fall comes on and we have cool mornings, I will get back to it. I got 75% of that stuff cleared.
I wish we had most of the parts to the built-in vacuum! We essentially have a hose and a hard floor attachment. No beater bar, no brush attachments or crevice tools. It makes the very convenient built in system pretty much useless. We have to use the Kirby upstairs on the carpet.
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