if completing tasks feels so good and reminds me completing tasks is easy then why is starting them the emotional equivalent of sending my first born to war

The completed Afro Victorian ensemble. More to come.

I fished this bee out of a bucket of flower water and set her on the tablecloth, but she decided the best place to dry off was on top of a potato.

A pest control company followed me after this post, so I had to block them.

Part of owning a house is that about twice a year you're going to find out about a new type of maintenance you've never heard of, but you should have been doing it all along.

If you're lucky, you'll find out about it *before* your AC stops working on a 90 degree day because it has frozen into a solid block of ice.

On the plus side, *I* fixed the AC. Me! Who had no idea what any of the parts even were, yesterday morning. I figured it shouldn’t look like this, though:

I googled, and found a few possibilities for what it could be, all of which involved turning it off until that all thawed & dried out. I did that, then couldn’t quite tell what I was looking at, so googled some more, looked at schematics, realized the thing was absolutely caked in dust & dirt, carefully scraped most of it off, bought the special solvent at the hardware store, followed the directions, and voila! Functional AC.

So yeah: Turns out you have to clean the evaporator coils in your air handler from time to time, otherwise air can’t move over them to get chilled, and the cold just builds up there till it freezes. Had this *ever* been cleaned, even before we got the house? Couldn’t say for sure - maybe not!

Check your air filters, too, and maybe see if there are others you don’t know about, hiding in your HVAC system somewhere. This probably gets worse faster if you have a bunch of hairy animals in the house.

something something the poetry of science etc

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