E PLURIBUS UNUM

I got up about seven this morning, feeling a lot better about everything, inspite of the fact that It was already cloudy and threatening to rain. Today being trash pickup day, we had two cans out, which they picked up about eight o'clock.

The wind was blowing pretty hard, so I went out right away to pick them up, and bring them back into the garage so they would not blow away. As I brought the cans back up the driveway, I heard a familiar sound, a sound that you might hear when some one blows accross the mouth of an empty Coke bottle, and my wife and I had been hearing this sound for about four days and nights, and I must say that it sounded kind of spooky in the middle of the night. We thought it had something to do with the furnace, because we only heard it when the furnace was running, until we turned the furnace off, and we still heard it. Then this morning as I was bringing the cans up, I heard it even louder, and it seemed to be coming from the side of the house, and that's where our airconditioner is, so I went to check it, knowing that it is attached to the furnace, even though it's not being used. That's when I noticed the sound was actually coming from the gas meter, which is very close to the airconditioner. The screw on cap was missing from the regulator. I put my thumb over the hole, and the sound stopped. Fortunately, the cap was on the ground right under the meter. I screwed the cap back on, probably saving us a large repair bill. The reason it made the noise when the furnace was off, is because the water heater is also run by gas.

The timeing was just right because tomorrow morning, my wife and I are going to Southern Illinois to be with her daughter and grandchildren over Easter Sunday. I'm taking my laptop, but I don't know how well it will work down there, so I might be MIA for a few days.

Thank you for your support, take care my friends.