Steered Wrong Again By Farmer H

When I knew the forecast was for several days of single-digit temperatures, I asked Farmer H about our flip houses.

"Should you go over there and turn on the faucet to drip? To keep the water from freezing?"

"Nah. You would have to do that for every faucet. Not just one."

I believed him. That's his area of expertise, not mine. Although I've always heard that leaving a faucet with a trickle of water can keep your pipes from freezing. I've never had a frozen pipe.

Then the water at the Beauty Shop half of our Double Hovel flip property FROZE! Farmer H says now that if he knew how the previous owner had run the water into the house, he would have let the faucet drip. Um. I'm pretty sure that's what I suggested! Besides, having torn that building down to the sub-floor, and built a whole new house out of it, you'd think Farmer H was well aware of how the water came into the building.

Next, I asked Farmer H to bring in the soda from T-Hoe's rear. 

"It's going to be so cold. I don't want the soda to freeze. It could get all over the carpet as it thaws."

"That soda is not going to freeze. It's in the garage! Inside your car. It won't get that cold."

Let the record show that our garage is NOT attached to the Mansion. It's only connected by a sidewalk and a roof. No heat is going to leak through a wall of the Mansion and seep into the garage.

Welp. I'm sure you've surmised by now that the soda in T-Hoe's rear DID in fact, freeze. I had seven 6-packs of bottled Diet Mountain Dew in there, and one 12-pack of Shasta Diet Cola in cans. When Farmer H came out to help with groceries on Tuesday, I pointed that out.

"Your soda froze."

"Huh. It's not all of them."

"Do you want me to carry some to the porch?"

"Yeah. They'll thaw out inside."

So there I was, carrying two of Farmer H's 6-packs to the porch. I set them on the chair, so as not to struggle with them while getting up the steps. Farmer H never came out! I had to carry them all the way into the Mansion.

"Huh. If I knew you weren't coming to get them, I wouldn't have brought your soda! The groceries were lighter to carry than those sodas!"

"Oh. I thought you were bringing them."

My Shasta Diet Cola remains in T-Hoe's rear. I'm sure they're frozen. Cans freeze faster than plastic bottles. I'll wait until I need them. Maybe they won't go flat if they thaw before I crack them open.

Farmer H is not so reliable on the subject of freezing temperatures.