The heating element is supposed to come today. I removed the old element which seemed to be OK. I'm writing this after mowing the front lawn and the element still has not come. Tracking said it's on the truck, I'll be surprised if Fedex delivers on Saturday. I weighed 239 this morning. That's another half pound drop from yesterday. Little by little I'm getting healthier. Let's hope this continues although I know there will be periods of seemingly no progress in the future months. I did a lot of weather research on the net this morning looking at various hardware to collect weather data. I want to gather temp, humidity, etc and archive it on a website. I think I also will build a temperature logger. My device will collect one wire data and store it in an SD card.
The card did arrive on a Saturday, hooray Fedex. It arrived at 3 PM and I soon had it installed and the motor wired up before putting the covers on the motor and the control box. I put some water in the tub then tried the motor - Eureka! Filled it the rest of the way to the top and put the outside skirt back in and watched the temperature slowly rise at about 2 degrees per hour. I do believe it's fixed!!! Dinner was BLT and Bush's barbecue beans again. Yummy.