AM I 'PIGPEN'?

I’m beginning to wonder…am I closely related to “Pigpen”, the Peanuts character who had a perpetual cloud over his head?  Let me explain.

A few weeks ago, a series of events have happened, that makes me wonder and look above, is there a cloud over my head that I can’t see?

It started with the dishwasher.  Let me say, that all the appliances in our kitchen are relatively new, as in, since the start of the pandemic.  The first incident with the dishwasher is that midway through a wash cycle it would throw an error code and shut down.  The code was ‘H2O’.  Luckily for our house, Peter is an excellent fixit guy.  He does his research on YouTube.  He did his research and while it took a little while, he figured out to try a different wash cycle, and that seemed to fix the problem. 

He did have to pull the dishwasher out and mess with the water line.  The next day I found a small puddle on the kitchen floor, but it took a second for Pete to retighten the water hose and all is well.

Then, a few days later just after we went to bed, Pete heard a clicking sound that was not part of our environment.  It took a minute to locate the sound, but it was coming from our gas stove.  We have a propane gas stove and the clicking was the little device in the burner that ignites the gas to become a flame.  The burner was not on, so there was no gas to ignite.  We pulled the stove out, and unplugged it.

The next morning, we plugged it back in, and for the moment at least, there is no more clicking.

Then on Thanksgiving Day I sat down at my new laptop computer (delivered from Amazon on October 9) and a bright blue screen appeared informing me that the computer had a serious problem and needed an immediate repair.  Nothing I did would allow me to open the computer. 

So, I took it to a repair shop and a few days later they informed me that the hard drive was corrupted and IF they could fix it, I would lose all my content.  Luckily, I still have my old computer and now, as I wait for a credit from Amazon for the purchase amount, I can still login on the old computer. 

Not sure what else is on the horizon, but I’m keeping my head low and trying to out run the cloud.  Hopefully the extreme cold weather will chase that cloud away!!!