While we are up at Sue's, Blue will be at the doggie motel. So after breakfast, we bundled Blue and her bed into the car and took her out to the Willamette Valley Dog and Cat Motel.
On the way back, we stopped and filled Mom's car with gas. Then Mom decided she wanted to go over to the Holiday Market at the fair grounds. We wandered around and looked at things, then left, got some lunch and home.
Last night, I went to Jerry's to get a replacement for the power strip that Mom uses to turn on and off all the computer equipment. I figured this should be a surge protector, and since the process to using the computer is first to turn on the power strip, then to turn on the computer and when shutting down, first power off the computer, then turn off the power strip, it should be a power strip that would be easy for Mom to turn on and off. Jerry's had one that has a foot pedal switch, which might be easier for Mom than one turned on/off by hand.
This power strip has another little light that is labeled "ground", and the instructions say that this lights up when the unit is properly grounded. It doesn't light, which suggests that the outlet we are using, despite being a 3-prong outlet, only has two wires (power and common), not three wires (power, common, and ground). Checking the circuit breaker box, all of the wiring in the house is two-wire Romex -- very old Romex -- with the exception of two that might be 3-wire. These would probably be for the last addition -- the sun room. Bottom line is that the house needs to be completely re-wired. Current standards would mean that we should replace all the wiring -- lighting, outlets, appliances -- with new wiring. Since it appears everything goes up into the attic, even tho the house is pier and beam, this should be do-able. It just might take a month or so. I re-wired my old house (built in 1936) and added outlets and such. It was a major undertaking.
As soon as Mom is thru packing, we can leave to drive up to Sue's.
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