Changing A Filter

If you're going to change a filter you might want to change the water filter on your refrigerator or maybe your coffee filter.  When I heard that the air filter in our crawl space needs to be changed every three months, it did not sound exciting.  However, this may make an entertaining blog.

I know our kids have changed the filter a couple times, but it was time for me to experience this exciting household moment. Below is the steps leading down to somewhere in our closet.  

We were prepared.  I put on some dirty sweatpants and two knee pads.  My wife had a very soft, old blanket we would move across the luxurious floor pictured below.  We also had a small flashlight if we needed it. This is the new world that faced me below.

We were both going to go down because as usual, I had no clue what I was going to do.  My wife said I should bring my phone in case we couldn't make it up.  My wife's knees couldn't make it down, so it was my mission and I was going in blind.  I had my phone to communicate and she facetimed me. I was about to visit another world and I would have liked to have Scotty beam we down instead of climbing into it.

I didn't see anything that looked like a filter, but there was a latch somewhere in the above picture and inside was the dirty filter, pictured below, which I replaced.  It says "test" here, is that important?

The crawl space was bigger than I thought and I thought I was going to be crawling and hunched over, but it wasn't that bad.  Below, I am triumphantly coming up the stairs.  All that was missing was the banner behind me saying, "Mission Accomplished." Three more months and I'll be doing it all over again.