{"id":20387,"date":"2013-07-23T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T04:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=20387"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:15:25","slug":"ever-wonder-what-a-miracle-sounds-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/ever-wonder-what-a-miracle-sounds-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever Wonder What a Miracle Sounds Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A miracle sounds something like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Generator Repair\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43J2n2O8Yh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It took L about 10 minutes to get my generator going. He:<\/p>\n<p>-removed the fuel line and blew in it to see if air was getting through (yes);<\/p>\n<p>-sucked on the line till he got a mouthful of gasoline (the things this guy does for me);<\/p>\n<p>-put in 25L of fuel to make sure I was well above the quarter tank mark;<\/p>\n<p>-removed the cover from around the brushes (which I as not able to remove) and manually rotated the brushes to a clean spot that was not all gummed up;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; primed the carburetor by spraying fuel directly into it.<\/p>\n<p>So this tells me that when I first noticed the genny wasn&#8217;t working in the spring of 2009, all I would have had to do was suck on the fuel line. The brushes were spinning back then and I knew to prime the carb and was doing so. *sighs*<\/p>\n<p>But all is not copacetic as the exhaust pipe is missing a section. We are going to hit up the farm equipment suppliers tomorrow to see if we can find a replacement piece of flexible metal exhaust hose. We can then give the genny a good bit of exercise. I need to find a replacement air filter in the nearish future. When we meet up again in January, he will replace the spark plug.<\/p>\n<p>I ran my AC for 10 minutes today and even nuked something in the microwave! COOL! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely day. He made a breakfast of pancakes with fresh blueberries in them and real maple syrup (what a treat for someone who&#8217;s been almost carb free for a while!). We went out in the morning and looked at the petroglyphs, then went to Willow Bunch for the fuel and to check out the thrift store. I came out with a few sweaters and a pink colander that matches my kitchen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We had a late lunch of VERY expensive pizza at Willow Bunch&#8217;s Stagecoach restaurant (the toppings and sauce were 10\/10 and the crust was a 4 or 5\/10, but neither of us have had pizza in eons, so it hit the spot!). We came in, got the genny going, then I took him over to meet C&amp;C. We came home to gab and then C&amp;C came by a little while later for a longer chat.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow should be pretty full with a trip to Assiniboia for parts and fixing the exhaust pipe, but things will get a little more sedate as I need to get some work done.<\/p>\n<p>Having a guest arrive with their own house ROCKS. It really is very little hassle and disruption to the routine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A miracle sounds something like this: It took L about 10 minutes to get my generator going. He: -removed the fuel line and blew in it to see if air was getting through (yes); -sucked on the line till he got a mouthful of gasoline (the things this guy does for me); -put in 25L [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,5,807,3,1511],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-20387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel","category-willow-bunch","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}