rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

Like @Margali said, with the electronic ignition... yeah, that is what mine has not "pilot lights" (I'm old school thinking).... you can still light the burners with a match... when you turn it to light(ignite or whatever is says) , mine does a clicking... and then they light... while doing that clicking stage, you can use a match... I tried it one day to see if I would be able to light them with the power off... so no clicking since no electric, but you just do it with a match rather than waiting for the clicking...
The permitting process should include all the inspections... I would look into that again... but then again... if you can light it with a match if the power is out... then getting the hassle of all the "permitting stuff" done once and for all... then you are done... and do ALL the stuff, stove, heater, etc.... at one time so only one trip for the inspections of all the lines etc.....instead of separate trips for the stove then the heater and all that...
I HATE cooking on electric... and that is what I grew up with...
I could light the "pilot light" on this older heater, with a match... or used the little fireplace lighter things you buy for a couple dollars...but something is preventing it from getting the gas to the flame when you turn it from pilot to the "on"... Not worth dealing with when I can get the propane heater stove thing I want.
It's a done deal; getting the new one I want...

 

[SageHill]

mine does a clicking... and then they light... while doing that clicking stage, you can use a match... I tried it one day to see if I would be able to light them with the power off... so no clicking since no electric, but you just do it with a match rather than waiting for the clicking...

I'll have to try that on mine. Ovens are electric but cook top is propane with the click ignition. We ~could have a power outage in the next day or so for who knows how long - preemptive with high Santa Ana winds predicted the power company will shut down the grid based on their wind meters way out there. Time will tell. We didn't lose power last time but a lot of folks did.

 

[farmerjan]

I use stick matches for the stove... the longer fireplace ones would be safer even if you are hesitant... Just turn the knob like you would want it to light, and with no clicking, you can use a match right near that little igniter thing... looks like a spark plug tip to me... if anyone remembers what they even look like anymore... showing my age again...

 

[Ridgetop]

you can still light the burners with a match... when you turn it to light(ignite or whatever is says) , mine does a clicking... and then they light... while doing that clicking stage, you can use a match...

The clicking sound is the electronic ignition sparking to light the stove. You should be able to light the stove even when the clicking is not sounding but some new models are designed that if the electronic ignition feature is not workig the gas will not come through so you still can't light the stove with a match.

 

[rachels.haven]

We did that in our outside of Detroit house pretty routinely when the failing grid left us without power...routinely. Funny, I was thinking about the chance I could get a propane stove setup just this morning. I think we're going induction eventually for a stove like our induction plate since all our pans save two are cast iron or steel and we may as well, but this cold weather has me missing cooking with gas!

It snowed today and the kids are out of school today and tomorrow. The littlest was out for almost four hours in his hand me down snow suit, then he came in, had hot chocolate and passed out for three and a half hours until I woke him up with food and a drink. We're going to be up all night. Today I shoveled paths to all the necessary places including paths to troughs for goats. That's what I did for all those hours.
ADVENTURE TIME

*and yes, we like socks. We are also hard on our socks. So many socks coming in and out the revolving door...

 

[rachels.haven]

School is canceled tomorrow too. I'm running out of things to over do it on.
Today I gave CDT's and drew blood on 32 goats. TOO MANY STEPS in heavy boots in the snow. And I may have carried some Nigerian Dwarf Divas too far when the snow was just too tall for their little leggies (one I accidentally tapped the fence with a foot and shocked us both because I woke her, so she HAD to stretch all the way out there airplane style which made her very long) The shared driveway got plowed today. Tomorrow I'll see if I can carefully drive down to the UPS store to mail these samples and the liver sample I had the processor save for mineral testing (thank goodness they want frozen samples!). If the buck pen is all clear, the below subjects will go in after I get results back on them.
Oh man, am I in so much pain and it's all my fault. (hmm, Mr. Smiley is moving a lot more than I feel like moving right now, maybe he's not such a good representation of my mood...) Tomorrow I'm taking my muck shovel and shoveling out the cars...or I guess I have to if I want to go anywhere. I can do that.

Pepper, AI son of Little Orchard BR Pure Thrill bred by the Hoy's, got on transport today and will be here in about a week. He's a buck I'd really like to keep offspring out of. Link on his name to his pedigree.

This is apparently the week of new bucks. Dator, (pedigree link also included, I like him too) a Kastdemur's buck that was previously in the Majenli herd, is coming this Friday-Saturday. I think his offspring will appeal to the show buyers and will complement and hopefully build on what Pete and now Pepper will keep in our herd. At some point I may keep back a daughter or two to prove out but his main purpose will be to create high quality animals with just a little more show emphasis.

And while we're talking about bucks a week ago I drove two hours towards the south by myself and then back again and picked up Homie to serve as Oberon's offspring's cover buck until someone else can share that position. I'm so glad he's here. This year, due to a still unresolved pedigree exclusion with Beaul, we will probably have to unregistered litters if they can't straighten things out, and yet another litter from an Obie daughter that I bred back to him. Come Spring I will bring in a couple of bucklings to grow up for two years from the breeder who was our transporter up here. She's also two hours away but in the opposite direction into PA. They should be exciting too. (ND bucks should always be grown up for at least 18 months if possible to watch for semi-random carpal hyperextension since a buck can and should produce many, many offspring a year is what I've learned the hard way so I get to WAIT on them).

Anyway, the Advil and Tylenol have kicked in. Time to put kids to bed. Have a good night. January is apparently month of the buck.

Oh. And we're 8 days from day 138 on the 5 preggers. That's the point they can go and produce live kids and 15 days to the two ND's due dates (the three standards are 5 days later). But after day 138 anything goes.