It’s been hanging around zero degrees here. If you don’t live on the coast, that might not seem that cold. But trust me. RIght on the ocean, it’s cold. Especially with gusty winds in some places. It’s even colder – below zero – out in the valley north of town.
I continue to be impressed and amazed at the miracle of a heat pump. Even at zero degrees, the unit is still putting out warm air. I still don’t know how it can take zero degree air and make it warm. We’re fairing fine in our little house with the heat pump going full blast and the wood stove helping keep things warm.
Been hard to get my butt away from the recliner right next to the toasty wood stove. Today, I finally got my act together and went skiing. It wasn’t bad at all. I only got in a couple miles and the snow is squeaky and doesn’t give much glide but beautiful in the sun lit woods.
I should have been skiing more since I got out of covid isolation, but procrastinated and did some projects on my 2nd generation Dodge Ram 3500. You Tube is man (and woman’s) best friend. First, I replaced the solenoid that powers the engine preheater. I then repaired the 4wd that wasn’t working by bypassing the vacuum system and permanently locking in the front axle. The solenoid job took about 45 minutes and the front axle job about 30 minutes, so I didn’t get cold before I got them done and could scramble back to my chair by the wood stove. The two jobs took not much more time that it took me to watch the you tubes on them.
Before these two jobs, I was looking at putting in a plug-in engine heater, and when I you tubed that, I found out my truck had one already installed as a stock item. Which I didn’t know. I popped the hood and sure enough, there was the plug. The truck starts up at 2 degrees in an instant when it’s plugged in.
Only one little vacuum item left to make the brake light go off, and will probably have to find the part in a junk yard. Sure is nice having the 4wd back and knowing it shouldn’t be a problem again.
I conducted further procrastination last evening to avoid skiing by finally getting the brown bananas out of the freezer and making a bunch of small loaves of banana bread.
So, with only one other job left – to shovel off the roof before rain comes later in the week – I went skiing to avoid that today. After the 2 measly miles, I got back and started in on the roof. I finished half today and will finish the other tomorrow. The last part will entail throwing snow in the driveway, but now that I have a plow on the truck that I installed during isolation, I won’t have to move it by hand twice.
I continue to be impressed and amazed at the miracle of a heat pump. Even at zero degrees, the unit is still putting out warm air. I still don’t know how it can take zero degree air and make it warm. We’re fairing fine in our little house with the heat pump going full blast and the wood stove helping keep things warm.
Been hard to get my butt away from the recliner right next to the toasty wood stove. Today, I finally got my act together and went skiing. It wasn’t bad at all. I only got in a couple miles and the snow is squeaky and doesn’t give much glide but beautiful in the sun lit woods.
I should have been skiing more since I got out of covid isolation, but procrastinated and did some projects on my 2nd generation Dodge Ram 3500. You Tube is man (and woman’s) best friend. First, I replaced the solenoid that powers the engine preheater. I then repaired the 4wd that wasn’t working by bypassing the vacuum system and permanently locking in the front axle. The solenoid job took about 45 minutes and the front axle job about 30 minutes, so I didn’t get cold before I got them done and could scramble back to my chair by the wood stove. The two jobs took not much more time that it took me to watch the you tubes on them.
Before these two jobs, I was looking at putting in a plug-in engine heater, and when I you tubed that, I found out my truck had one already installed as a stock item. Which I didn’t know. I popped the hood and sure enough, there was the plug. The truck starts up at 2 degrees in an instant when it’s plugged in.
Only one little vacuum item left to make the brake light go off, and will probably have to find the part in a junk yard. Sure is nice having the 4wd back and knowing it shouldn’t be a problem again.
I conducted further procrastination last evening to avoid skiing by finally getting the brown bananas out of the freezer and making a bunch of small loaves of banana bread.
So, with only one other job left – to shovel off the roof before rain comes later in the week – I went skiing to avoid that today. After the 2 measly miles, I got back and started in on the roof. I finished half today and will finish the other tomorrow. The last part will entail throwing snow in the driveway, but now that I have a plow on the truck that I installed during isolation, I won’t have to move it by hand twice.