Devonviolet Acres

[CntryBoy777]

I hated to read about the KCs and wish I'd been closer to get them....I just love those little darlings.....and I sure do miss ours, but here shortly I may just be able to get some more....

 

[Devonviolet]

I hated to read about the KCs and wish I'd been closer to get them....I just love those little darlings.....and I sure do miss ours, but here shortly I may just be able to get some more....

Yeah, I thought of you when I was posting them for sale. That would have been awesome, if you could have gotten them. I would have even given you a nice cut in the price.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Aww!!....your so Kind........

 

[Devonviolet]

I have to brag on DH for a minute.

About 2 weeks ago, he was using the vacuum. He had to go outside, for something, and when he came back in, he turned on the vacuum and nothing happened. HUH??? So, he plugged it into another outlet and . .. .. nothing. That led to checking five outlets on the same wall. Five of them didn’t work.

Now, he’s not an electrician, but his father was a farm boy, who taught farm mechanics. He started working on electricity back just about when Edison first invented it. So, DH grew up at the knee of a brilliant teacher. He has been working on electric wiring for about 60 years.
He tried just about everything he knew to do . . . Tracing wires, re-wiring electric outlets, putting in a new breaker, etc. Nothing worked! He was losing sleep over this. He just KNEW there had to be an explanation! He could tell that the first wire in the string went up the wall, to the attic, which meant it went down into the electric panel, in the bedroom.

So, this afternoon, he went into the bedroom, with his rubber sole shoes and rubber palm gloves, and started checking black wires, one by one, in the breaker box. I was in the middle of baking some Cranberry, White Chocolate, Walnut Scones, and I just noticed, in passing, that he went into the office, where the outlets were out. He came back into the kitchen and very low key, he said, “It worked.” I said, “WHAT??” . He said, “It worked.” I looked at the lamp plugged into one of the outlets, and IT WAS LIT!!! I started whooping and hollering, and ran to hug him. He just kept laughing.

It turned out the screw, in the breaker box, that held the white wire, for that string of outlets, was just a half a turn too loose, preventing a contact point. So, he turned it tight, and that did the trick.

Absolutely nothing happened, between stopping the vacuum, and restarting it, that should have caused that wire to stop making contact in the breaker box. So, once he figured out that it was a loose screw, he checked every other screw and they were all tight.

I’m SO PROUD OF HIM!!! He’s so smart!!! I just had to brag on him!!! If we had to hire an electrician, we would have probably had to pay him big buck$ to find the problem.

 

[Devonviolet]

Oh, and by the way, here are the scones, that I was making when DH fixed our electrical problem.

 

[Southern by choice]

Not sure if I am happier about your lights and DH figuring it out or the scones!

So how did they come out? Did you like the recipe?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yay and Yum!!! He did good figuring out the problem and your scones look awesome!

 

[Baymule]

That doesn't surprise me. Your DH is not only smart, but curious. He wants to know why, how and what can he do to fix it. And so he fixed it!

 

[Devonviolet]

Not sure if I am happier about your lights and DH figuring it out or the scones!

So how did they come out? Did you like the recipe?

Actually, this is a recipe that I have made several times. I used to sell these at farmer’s market, before I started selling strictly gluten free baked goods. And of course they turned out yummy!

 

[Devonviolet]

So after DH found the loose screw, I was talking to @goatgurl, on the phone. She said, "If anyone asks if your husband has a screw loose, you can say, 'Not anymore'".

DH got such a big kick out of it, he couldn't stop giggling.

He still giggles when he thinks about it.