The water heater almost fell from the sky

After the adventure with the scooter, I was basking in my glory and thinking about that wonderful victory when I turned the water on for a shower and the water was COLD. It was beyond cold; it was freezing. I determined that temperature rating after standing in the cold water and it did not start to feel like a lake or the ocean or anything you could adapt to.

For some reason, I have never had to re-light the pilot light under  a water heater. But yesterday I was faced with the task . . . because I am the resident patsy here. So I watched YouTube and I, the wonderful AmeliaJake, learned all about the access panel and how to do the little “you have to put this piece back starting with it upside down” maneuver. I lit the pilot light. I did it. And, I did it with only one viewing of the instructional video. I got the access panel back on also.

I went back upstairs where Spikey was broadcasting on her Mercury Radio News station that reports were coming in about alien water heaters landing in New Jersey. Because she had the On Air sign posted, I held up a poster that read:  SPIKEY, YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN HOT WATER and she said, “This just in from a trusted source . . . Never mind. Now back to our regular musical program.”

She then took off her foil hat and put it in the drawer for the next time it is needed . . . and as Spikey says, there will be a next time. You may want to send for her instructional booklet, titled Protecting Your Brain Through the Wonders of  Foil. Several different folding patterns are included. Spikey favors the one that resembles Sherlock Holmes’ hat, but it is just a matter of fashion taste.

HERE IS THE VIKING MODEL: