Friday, January 20, 2012

Oops

Zephyrhills, Florida

I guess I am a slow learner. 

When we first got this motorhome and I started using the washer/dryer combo.  I didn’t tighten the screw on vent properly and got a small water leak, that I noticed right away.  It screws on with a rubber o-ring.

Yesterday, I ran the carpet shampooer in the living room and went to grab a small fan that lives in the bedroom near the washer/dryer.  Uh oh….the fan was wet!

I had been having a stiff neck all morning, and it was killing me by this time.  I was just getting ready to lay down on a heating pad for my neck.

But no…..I had a very wet carpet because I didn’t quite get the valve screwed in quite tight enough.  I had washed and rinsed one entire load.  I don’t think all the water leaked out, but enough to soak the carpet around the washer.

So my heating pad had to wait. 

I clean this little vent out every few loads and it’s kind of difficult to turn it to get it out. The last time, I decided to not tighten it back quite as tight.  BIG MISTAKE!   I tightened it plenty…but not as tight as I could.  Lesson Learned.

I towel dried it as best as I could and left three fans running overnight.  It appears to be mostly dry this morning.

Never did get the bedroom carpet shampooed….but it got a good rinsing.  Smile

 

my picture of the day.  Kayaking under a bridge in the Keys.

kayaking from bridge at sunshine key

Snow in Tampa

Zephyrhills, Florida

35 years ago yesterday, it snowed here in Tampa.

It was quite a shocker.  There were accidents everywhere because no one knew how to drive on the snow.  The bridges and overpasses were closed down due to multiple accidents.  No one knew that bridges got icy faster than the roads.

Kids and adults got out and played in the snow.

Photos  Snowfall of 1977 was quite the dusting   Tampa Bay news topic forum  Let s Talk   Tampa Bay Times

Floridians do not have ice scrapers.  Credit cards were used instead.

Weather blog  Snow in Tampa  Jan. 19  1977

This happened on January 19, 1977.  Al and I had moved from Nebraska just 3 years earlier, so we weren’t impressed at all with the falling white stuff!

Except for a visit to North Dakota one February, and one snow in south Georgia a few years ago, that is the last snow I have seen.

I’d like to keep it that way. Smile