As Week 3 of the current family project comes to a nears its end, we find ourselves once more back to a family of three, as a gigantically tall teenager returned from his away-from-home summer job. Once more we find ourselves adjusting to a house of loud music and gaming consoles, while constantly reminding each other to please make sure things are unplugged.
We have also started keeping more copious notes on our energy project. Yesterday, for example, the A/C ran for only a total of 3 hours, while the stove suffered the even worse fate of not being turned on at all - but it wasn't because of a no-electricity night, as we had originally planned. It was because, in honor of a home run hit by a baseball player, we treated ourselves to 25-cent coneys at the local mall.
While we've been making immense progress in energy savings, there have been times of forgetfulness, sometimes causing us to almost want to tear our hair out. The number of times that we have said, "What are you doing? The computer's on!" when the teenager plugs in the gaming console, or the morning we woke up to find that we had forgotten completely to turn off the air conditioning, despite the fact that it was a cool 72 degrees outside. Then again, who's to say what the temperature would have been inside?
And so life, as messy as it sometimes gets, keeps rolling on, taking us with it. We continue to wonder what the meter will read at the end of the project, despite forgetfulness and days of heat and long turns at the stove. Perhaps it wasn't the brightest idea to start an energy-saving project in the middle of what is sometimes called "canning season" - the boiling water bath for the pickles takes a good 35 minutes to boil.
Again, I'd like to welcome everyone to lifetime project's new home on blogger, where my non-technical mind no longer stresses out over which widget to add, or which post to play with. We hope you'll stay with us on our journey from one project to the next, and even help us to decide.
Good night all!
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