Let me tell you.. last night on the way to class I turned a corner in my car and immediately knew there was a problem. Suddenly, it sounded as if I was running on 3 cylinders instead of 4, and I lost a lot of power. I made it the last mile to school and popped the hood. I could see nothing obvious. Mind you, I just finished a full shift at work, 3 hours in 95* sun, and the heat has been brutal. I called my bf and put him on alert - he'll need to pick me up if it still sounds bad after class. Fast forward to 9:15pm and it's dark outside. I started the car; still sounds like crap. I checked the spark plugs and the wires are all secure. I smell raw gas - somewhere, fuel is not burning. I called the bf and have him come out to follow me to the mechanics. He arrives 30 minutes later with a flashlight and in 2 seconds of looking under the hood he says, "what do you think THIS is?" I got out of the car and looked - his flashlight spotlighting my distributor cap, where one of the spark plug wires was hanging free. "Plug wires have TWO sides, sweetheart." I know this - it was in plain sight - I had CHECKED that side of the engine - and I've worked on cars since I was 11 so I'm not a dumb female that doesn't know her way around an engine. I felt really stupid and popped the wire end back on to the distributor. She fired right up, happy as a clam. Sigh...
This morning I went out to the garden and found that something is sprouting in my green 6 pack. I really need to find a fast and easy and secure way to label stuff when I plant it. Now I have to WAIT til it gets a little bigger to determine what it is. My green onions are also going to seed. I grew them from green onions that we got from the store. After we used all the green section, I popped the white part with the roots in the ground and voila! New greens, seeds included. We'll plant those next year and see what we get. {I should mark those, huh?"
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