Home is where the A/C is...
We're back on the farm again, having spent a couple of days visiting trixstir 's parents (and picking up our own kidling, who had been staying with them for the summer.) Got to see a lot of the rest of the family too, including my new niece. She's only four months old, so right now she mostly lays where you put her, squirms a lot (almost rolling over and getting ready to crawl), and makes a variety of different (often wet-sounding) noises. Not much of a crier (thankfully), but some of those other noises could put Grandpa and her other male relatives to shame! ;)
The worst thing about visiting Trixstirs parents is having to be wary of overeating. These are true farming-folk, so there's always lots of food, and it's very good. The last time we visited I wound up putting on 10 pounds! Saskatchewan in the summer can get hot , make no mistake about that! The trip back to our farm was only a three-hour drive, but in a non-air-conditioned car, so the heat was pretty gruelling. We stopped in Swift Current to pick up some school things for the kidling, and some parts that I needed to hook up a 30-Amp circuit at the farm to run the travel-trailer properly. Our clothes-dryer runs on natural gas, so I had a 220-Volt, 30-Amp outlet available to tap into. Using a clothes-dryer plug and only connecting one side, I was able to get a 110-Volt, 30-Amp power source, which is what the trailer wants.
It took me a little over an hour to run the cable from the dryer-outlet to a weather-proof outlet on the side of the house where we could plug in the trailer. Turn on the breakers, plug in the trailer, and... Blessed A/C at last! :) We can finally safely run the trailer's refrigerator, A/C unit, and other small appliances without having to worry about overloading the system. With the outside temperature's in the mid to high 30's (celcius) it's great to have a cool place to retreat to for a rest now and then!
The worst thing about visiting Trixstirs parents is having to be wary of overeating. These are true farming-folk, so there's always lots of food, and it's very good. The last time we visited I wound up putting on 10 pounds! Saskatchewan in the summer can get hot , make no mistake about that! The trip back to our farm was only a three-hour drive, but in a non-air-conditioned car, so the heat was pretty gruelling. We stopped in Swift Current to pick up some school things for the kidling, and some parts that I needed to hook up a 30-Amp circuit at the farm to run the travel-trailer properly. Our clothes-dryer runs on natural gas, so I had a 220-Volt, 30-Amp outlet available to tap into. Using a clothes-dryer plug and only connecting one side, I was able to get a 110-Volt, 30-Amp power source, which is what the trailer wants.
It took me a little over an hour to run the cable from the dryer-outlet to a weather-proof outlet on the side of the house where we could plug in the trailer. Turn on the breakers, plug in the trailer, and... Blessed A/C at last! :) We can finally safely run the trailer's refrigerator, A/C unit, and other small appliances without having to worry about overloading the system. With the outside temperature's in the mid to high 30's (celcius) it's great to have a cool place to retreat to for a rest now and then!