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We are receiving more snow today, I have a feeling it is going to be a bad winter. I walked up to get the mail around 3pm yesterday and took a few pictures: snow falling on white pine tree All is calm as light snow falls on the White Pine tree. The stream, known [...] It seems that the hot weather followed me back from Florida. After 4 years of living in this house, we finally broke down and bought a little window AC unit. It is a 6,000 BTU Haier (HWR06XC7) which my lovely wife picked up at Target on Saturday morning. I installed it in the middle window [...] But not so much inside. Yippie! My work on the sump pump, the gutters, the surface drains in the yard, the retaining wall, and swale in the back yard seem to have paid off. About half the basement floor is covered with water, flowing across to the sump. Some water is coming up through the [...] I am fed up with this rain. I went outside this morning and shook my fist at the sky. We have had so much rain, water is now coming up, out of the floor drains in the basement. Fortunately, the sump pump was able to keep up with the incoming water, so the floor was [...] Now that winter is approaching, I started to keep track of the Heating Degree Days (HDD) for this year. I like keep track of such things because that is my nature. One thing that is always interesting to me is the ratio of HDD to Gallons of oil burned to heat the house. This is [...] This happened to us repeatedely our first year. The worst experience was in January 2005 when we had a warm front move through and dump about 2 inches of rain on us overnight. All of the snow melted, and since the ground was still frozen the water ran across our back yard and right into [...] |
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