(written on the 7th from notes taken previously)
Busted my butt today–all day.
The cold weather moves in this weekend, so there’s not much time to get everything done before it’s too cold to apply the sealant to the basement walls.
So… I’m just trying to pound through.
Accordingly, after spending time doing my morning daily I spent the entire day just rolling (paint roller, rolling sealant all over).
It’s very slow going. Every surface that I roll, I first vacuum and clean off in an attempt to make sure nothing is loose and that the sealant has the best chance of adhering.
Been rough on my back.
At some point today, I went inside for a smoothie, and as I was rinsing stuff off in the sink, I realized that the camper tank ran out of water. No huge deal, except that even after I turned the water off, the pump inside the trailer didn’t turn off.
😶
I don’t know exactly how water pumps work in trailers, but if they are anything like pumps in gas tanks, then you can burn out your pump if it runs while there isn’t any fuel in the tank. I believe that’s because the design of the pump is self cooling. The fluid that runs through the pump cools the pump, so if you run out of fluid, and the pump continues to run, then it just gets hotter and hotter and hotter until it burns itself out.
I wasn’t 100% sure that it was the pump that was what was making the noise I was hearing, but it seemed like it, so I quickly went outside and sure enough, it was the pump. But I didn’t know how to turn it off. It’s supposed to turn off automatically as soon as the request for water is shut off by whichever faucet is being used. As soon as you turn the faucet off, the pump turns off. But that wasn’t happening.
So I scrambled and went over to the circuit breaker box and shut off every circuit breaker in the house.
No dice.
The pump stayed on.
😶
So I ended up calling hans, and he directed me to a little switch by the sink that allows you to turn the pump off.
Gratefully, after adding water from the outside tank to the inside tank, the pump pumped as it should. 🥳
After getting that resolved, I mucked out the barn and dragged the horse apples around to keep the flies down.
Then I headed into town to fill up the main water tank because the horses’ water was running significantly low. It took me a little while to get the water filling figured out, as there were two different water spouts, and I didn’t realize because I didn’t look ahead of time that one was higher than the other. I spent a little while trying to figure out how to fill it from the higher side before I noticed that the other spout was lower, so I just moved the truck, and everything worked out great.
Long day. Definitely worn out. Sore.
Vegged a little bit. Ate dinner. Hung out with Heather a bit. Vegged some more, and called it a night.
Gratitude to My Father:
- I’m grateful I was able to make some pretty good progress sealing the exterior basement walls.
- I’m grateful I was able to figure out how to get the water in the truck tank.
- I’m grateful that the trailer water pump is still working.
- I’m grateful that I was able to reach Hans to figure out how to turn the pump off and to walk me through how to fill the trailers water tank from the external tank.
Oh, weirdly, I gotten sunburned, despite wearing my massive hat and working hard to keep my face out of the sun. I think it must be reflective sun off of the shiny basement walls as I coat them.
😕
Oh well.
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 