Every year when we start to put this haunted barn thing together weird things start to happen in the barn. We have two rows of 4 big light bulbs each (total 8) in our arena in the rafters. When we started putting up the beams and making the internal structure of the haunted house, Russ went out and bought a bunch of big light bulbs to replace all the burned out bulbs so we'd have plenty of light to build in. We go all 8 bulbs shining bright ....... about 2 minutes (....and I'm not exaggerating here ...) one of the lights he had just replaced started to fizzle and slowly burned out. We had the normal reaction -- we both swore, kicked the sand in the arena -- and I went and got another bulb to put in. We put it in and then the one beside it on another wire line fizzled and burned out. That's when we looked at each other kinda quietly and said .....hmmmm. Um ...... that's weird. We left that one out and went on about our work. It has been 21 days since we put all those new bulbs in. Yesterday when Steve and I went in to put the new chimney in place ....... all but one bulb was burned out. You might think --Oh your wiring is nutty ...... but seriously we had that barn all rewired just a year and a half ago because we needed so many extensions and plug ins. We had an electrician in all day making sure that the electrical work was all ok. Hmmmmm ........ SO .... when Steve and I went into the Bloody Merry Christmas room it was pretty dark in there without any lights on. So I went into the main entryway and dug around in the light box and found a brand new box of regular light bulbs. I unscrewed a blacklight bulb from a portable light fixture and brought it into the Christmas Room. I plugged it in along with a string of eyeball lights. Super! LIGHT!! We can see!! We started working on the chimney. I screwed in one screw and fizzzzzzzzzle ...... ssssssttttt..... the light bulb burned out. The eyeball lights were still going off that same extension so the extension wasn't bad. I looked at Steve .... hmmmm ...... well, let's go get another light ..... so I got another light out of the box and we screwed it in and it worked the rest of the time we were in the room. Hmmmmmm..........
Friday, September 26, 2008
Weird Things Are Happening ...
Every year when we start to put this haunted barn thing together weird things start to happen in the barn. We have two rows of 4 big light bulbs each (total 8) in our arena in the rafters. When we started putting up the beams and making the internal structure of the haunted house, Russ went out and bought a bunch of big light bulbs to replace all the burned out bulbs so we'd have plenty of light to build in. We go all 8 bulbs shining bright ....... about 2 minutes (....and I'm not exaggerating here ...) one of the lights he had just replaced started to fizzle and slowly burned out. We had the normal reaction -- we both swore, kicked the sand in the arena -- and I went and got another bulb to put in. We put it in and then the one beside it on another wire line fizzled and burned out. That's when we looked at each other kinda quietly and said .....hmmmm. Um ...... that's weird. We left that one out and went on about our work. It has been 21 days since we put all those new bulbs in. Yesterday when Steve and I went in to put the new chimney in place ....... all but one bulb was burned out. You might think --Oh your wiring is nutty ...... but seriously we had that barn all rewired just a year and a half ago because we needed so many extensions and plug ins. We had an electrician in all day making sure that the electrical work was all ok. Hmmmmm ........ SO .... when Steve and I went into the Bloody Merry Christmas room it was pretty dark in there without any lights on. So I went into the main entryway and dug around in the light box and found a brand new box of regular light bulbs. I unscrewed a blacklight bulb from a portable light fixture and brought it into the Christmas Room. I plugged it in along with a string of eyeball lights. Super! LIGHT!! We can see!! We started working on the chimney. I screwed in one screw and fizzzzzzzzzle ...... ssssssttttt..... the light bulb burned out. The eyeball lights were still going off that same extension so the extension wasn't bad. I looked at Steve .... hmmmm ...... well, let's go get another light ..... so I got another light out of the box and we screwed it in and it worked the rest of the time we were in the room. Hmmmmmm..........
