I was starting to delete photo albums in my compute folder files because they are getting crowded and slow down the function of my computer/laptop. Besides I need more space for new photos. I was looking, staring and checking each photo to delete from the folder file and leave some important photos for safekeeping.
While browsing through those albums, noticed some of the photos of our kitchen appliances. OMG! Year 2019 and year 2020 - the years of uncertainty and the year of the infamous covid and years when our electronics and or kitchen appliances malfunctioned. It was like domino effect.
From our Hamilton rice cooker, LG microwave/oven, microwave/toaster/oven and our large flat screen television set also got malfunctioned for no apparent reason other than they no longer function.
Don't worry, all those appliances I mentioned are owned by us not by the owner of the rented house. What really happened had something to do with the warranty, guaranty or just that some of them are "old" already when they are stored in the department stores before they were bought? What could be?
Let's start with our TV set. We had our large 50" flat screen TV that we bought in the year 2010. It was at the time of the Vancouver Olympic Games. We rushed out to Courtenay Walmart and purchased that huge TV. Then that TV was replaced in the year 2020 with brand new RCA TV Flat screen LED TV 55" At least the guaranty of 10 years not bad. That 50" TV was a plasma and very heavy. I like that old 50" TV we had because the quality is great, the color is much better and the only thing that malfunction about is the sound. It still had pictures on it, channels are okay and the only problem is the sound. No matter how hard we tried to fix it why the television has no sound or had been muted is unknown to us. So weird. Checked on remote controls for volume and the tune up buttons at the back of the TV and no matter how we checked its diagnostic test all failed and decided it's really time to buy new TV and got that 55" RCA TV.
We bought that RCA TV 55" on June 2020. Sept 2020 we bought new microwave/oven. We purchased rice cooker, toaster/oven in Year 2020. THEN...do I have to mention that the vacuum need to b replaced to? The Dyson vacuum machine needs replacement too. That $650 worth Dyson was replaced with much cheaper vacuum Bissell.
The LG was replaced with Hamilton Beach brand.
Include the laundry machine. Bought this, bought that when we should be saving and economizing. Sure is the reason for moving to this old house is to economize but looked like it's been a topsy- turvy for us.
You think it is convenient to live in Canada? It is more convenient to live in Philippines. That's the truth about it. You wont be able to save money here. With $2,500/month expenses for the house rent + utilities that's a yearly budget for certain family in Philippines and they can send their kids to university.
Know what? Isn't that weird if I tell you that happened in that house in Colorado where suddenly the main fuse gets automatic shut-off and on and shuts off? That we sometimes wake up in the middle of the night that the gas fireplace was off and malfunctioned. That we wake up sometimes, the garage door was wide open the whole night when we knew that we locked it before bedtime?
Well, that happens to old, haunted houses!!!!!! LOL. I was thinking about it now. Old houses had weird electrical wirings or could it be alternating current.
When we first moved in to that house, the brother of the owner who is a friend of my husband tried to pull out the mirror that was attached to the wall in the living room and got hurt when the glass mirror got broken. That's not good. My husband has to fix the wall, replenished and repainted it.
On my family's first night in that house, I think saw a shadow outside the window of our room. I heard there are strangers walking from where husband had docked the boat. Middle of the night! FGS!! Weird right? Whose shadow is that? Who are they? The next morning, husband and my nieces friends and brother-in-law are to go fishing and they will use my husband's boat. When they were aboard the boat, suddenly the motor malfunctioned. The boating and fishing was cancelled.
Oh well, what else happened to that chaotic move to that house? That house was old so we have to do so many fixing. Husband fixed the bath tub and the plumbing. Good that my husband knew about plumbing or it could be so many tasks to do and his work will keep adding up. He also fixed the gas fireplace so many times then later he just asked the much veteran technician to that work. Just the maintenance of the yard is too much but we like gardening and planting veggies and flowering plants even if its costly on our part. We bought extra enriched garden soil, plants to plant, bag of fertilizer, lime for the fresh turf, we keep the house and yard and maintenance of that house in absolutely perfect condition. That's who we are. It's always lots of work to do.
I could only reminisced those chaotic years were actually quoxitic! Year 2019-2020 the year of uncertainty, awful messy pandemic and maybe it's what you called "maximum overdrive."
While I was writing about this weird story, wildfire smokes rapidly spread from Canada to New York. New York suddenly became a ghostly, foggy smog of haze glowing with toxic fumes and smoke. How that happened? Through the air, to the wind...seems like microwave in concave convex structural form. Whatever. People area sked to wear facemasks oce again because the tiny minute particles from wildfires are health hazards especially for the young and adults with asthma and COPD and lung diseases. While the cause of wildfires in Canada are mostly from the thunder and lightning and maybe from unattended neglected campfires or kaingin system gone awry.
No comments:
Post a Comment