Cold New Year
For the Mainers that love pond hockey, it’s a good start to the year. It’s been really quite cold up here. Not a bunch of snow, but cold. The dog and I continue our 2-1/2 mile daily walks, but next week when the lows will be below 0° F, and the highs a couple of days in the single digits (not counting wind chill), we may do somewhat abbreviated outings.
We can stay warm, though – our pellet stove does well for us. A couple of bucks worth of pellets a day keeps the main floor at an even 70° plus or minus. The picture above was taken moment after lighting up again last weekend after I cleaned the stove. That’s a bit of a process. I shut it down, dump the ash collector, take some bits apart and vacuum the whole thing. The final step after reassembly is to clean the glass. Then it’s good for another 2-3 weeks, depending on how fast the ash collector fills.
That’s all there is right now, more when there’s more to report.
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