Wow, I just thought that one up. I am going to use it frequently and see if it becomes a part and parcel of the current lexicon. Actually, I could say what’s easily remembered is not forgotten – but that is too sensical.

Many years back I did the same with the phrase who woulda thunk it? It became quite popular, and I began hearing it in far flung places. So it is possible to divert the cognitive stream.

You have to have water to have streams. Many in the lower portion of the U.S. are now realizing this. And if the lakes/streams/oceans are dried up, you can’t walk on water.

Alisha and kids cleaning books

That which is obvious continues to be obvious.

We had the first real frost last night/this morning. I went to fire up Phonix and she would not start. I called in Pete to trouble shoot, and he determined that the battery in my key wasn’t working. Oh Oh. He went inside and got the second one. I did not know that we had a second one. It worked.

The dang car tells me everything. I was in the hotel parking lot, and it told me the road was icy. Now how has this vehicle been programmed to tell me this? I’m not going to say that the asphalt was or was not icy. I should have gotten out and checked.

Pete as trouble shooter. He seems to enjoy figuring out what’s wrong with things. He’s been this way ever since I’ve known him. I depend on him to make it, whatever it is, work. He does not take joy in showing, then making sure that I understand what was amiss. It’s (again) the breakthrough moments that he’s going for.

I remember that before we met, I had achieved a certain level of competency in fixing things. For example, I, with instructions, put a bicycle carrier on the back of a friend’s car, this was before doing a trip down the Kenai Peninsula. But once we met, I began opting to let him figure things out. Now if we hadn’t met and I’d stayed single, I suspect I’d be more proficient at doing hands on things than I am now.

The list of things I cannot do is very, very long. For example, I learned that you don’t just plug in new stoves and they work. Oh no. They come with nuts and bolts and other things. Pete put our stove (I call her Mother as in Mother of all Stoves) together in a short amount of time.

Apparently, this stove has something called a glow bar. This, when the oven is on, draws power. Pete says that we are going to have to have the generator on when we bake for long periods of time. He, in answer to my question, said that no, we cannot send it back. He then lamented that we could have, additionally, looked at stoves at Amerigas or elsewhere. But we did not, so we are stuck, stuck, stuck with what we have.

Trouble shooting, ka pow.

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