I went downstairs and checked the central A/C unit to see if I could see anything wrong with it, but of course there’s a big metal cover and so I couldn’t tell.

Living in a house and owning a house are two very different things. I have found that as a homeowner, weird things happen quite frequently and you just about always end up having to pay out of your own pocket for them! A few weeks ago when the temperatures outside were still pretty hot, I went to the thermostat to turn down the air conditioning. The house was feeling pretty stuffy and overly warm to me and I wasn’t sure why the A/C wasn’t coming on automatically. Of course, I don’t really know all that much about air conditioning systems at all. I thought about calling my local heating and cooling company to see if they could help me, but I really didn’t want to have to spend the money to pay them for a service call. I went downstairs and checked the central A/C unit to see if I could see anything wrong with it, but of course there’s a big metal cover and so I couldn’t tell. Not that I would really have been able to tell if there was something going on with it anyway. I finally ended up outside, so I could check out the exterior component of the A/C system. When I went to the back of the garage, I looked around and saw that there were two big red squirrels sitting right on top of the A/C unit. I realized that the whole problem with my cooling system was the fact that these red squirrels were sticking acorns down into my A/C unit!

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