another hot water crisis?

I stayed up late last night watching HGTV (love that Slingbox), so when Bill woke me up before 7am to tell me that we were out of hot water, I was not happy. Or really aware of what was going on. Next thing I know, I’m dragged out of bed to go to the cave (that’s French… “cave”… as in basement… not as in those Geiko commercials)… and show Bill which knob to turn on the hot water heater to adjust the pressure. Except that I don’t remember which knob it is.

Then as I started to wake up, I asked Bill to repeat the morning events. He noticed the water in the shower “wasn’t as hot as usual.” OOOOOH! That’s because yesterday morning Kaitlyn got in the shower with me and said it was too hot so I turned it down. The shower is a funky modern thing where you just set the scald-level and that’s the temperature you get every day. But the setting is hard to see (I just found out it existed a few days ago myself) and easy to ignore. So the hot water heater isn’t broken.

Still, the heating fuel is nearly empty. So now I’m given the task of getting more delivered. I tried calling the relocation company that is supposed to help us. But it is August. No answer. Looks like I know what my French lesson will be Monday morning. How do you say “heating fuel” in French?

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