All in a Garden Green

In which I discover I am dumb. And have dumb luck, which saved me a spark show and a blown fuse or three.

Upon going outside with hubby, who Knows Things About Cars and What To Do With Them, to change out the battery, we discover not only did I hook up the battery jumper completely, utterly backwards (thanks to reading (very carefully and thoroughly) the wrong set of instructions), but the charger did absolutely nothing, thanks to my choice of "ground", which was a heavily painted section of frame. Dumb. But lucky, I suppose.

The battery is probably fine, will confirm with my trusted mechanic tomorrow, but I have a cracked terminal, which would account for the finicky starting that I had earlier today, and hopefully will be repaired tomorrow. Gah. Stoopid. If the battery is not fine, great, I just happen to have a brand-y new one. If it is, guess who is returning the (thankfully) unopened battery and getting her $100 back.

In house news, the bank is sending somebody out to assess the situation, and will be getting back to us by Wednesday. Hopefully J cleared enough snow/ice away from the lovely little flat spot today so that the rain didn't prompt yet another leak... They are also going to start pushing harder to get the lien cleared up so we can actually toss the many many trash bags we've been filling, and start really cleaning things. Ripping out carpets, putting in nice laminate floors, getting new appliances in there... I can't wait. :) Also have to fill oil tanks soon... which I can kinda wait for (at least the bill... owie), but we cannot skip that little detail. Should be able to last another two weeks or so on what is there.

Now, back to garb, as I have figured out how to adjust the pattern so I don't use *quite* so much fabric... eep.