Mighty Cool Last Night - Garage Door Key Lock Frozen

Well, last night I discovered that all the rain the other day, coupled with some rapidly falling temperatures was not ideal for putting the key into my garage door entrance. Fortunately I had my garage door entrance unlocked, but had forgotten that and when I went out to go down to the village, found that I could not put my key in the lock. Thank God I was able to get in the garage as the only other entrance is with the garage door opener which is usually in the car.

I tried using some WD40, but that didn't work. It was pretty close to zero out there, so I did the next best thing. I put my garage door opener in my pocket and decided I would work on it this morning. Mary Kay's friend Rich came over to check on me a while later and I told him what happened. He got a Phillips screw driver and removed the lock and brought it in the house and used a pointed tool to click the tumblers. I had some 3 in 1 oil and we used some of that and finally got it to working and he reinstalled it.

I had intended to use Maryann's Hair Dryer, which has usually worked in the past. Oh well, maybe it won't happen again. I still don't understand how the water gets in there, but apparently it does.

I usually go around and put some 3 in 1 oil on the key and make sure the keys work freely. Think I might best do that today on the other locks.