More winter.

I did my typical shopping run on Monday.  I added a Walmart stop (which I am not a fan of, especially in the holiday season) but it actually wasn't bad.  I wanted to pick up another humidifier.  The one I had last year was inadequate.  This one was surprisingly cheap.

Before cooking dinner the humidity was 18%.  

I went up to schedule my truck for an oil change and did some looking around at cars.  Bob's had a Ford Focus that was only $5k, but had some rust on it (not uncommon for a northeast car), and a Subaru that looked pretty clean underneath but was a bit out of my sister's price range.

After 24 hours, the new humidifier only got it up to 30%, so it looks like I will have to clean out my old one and hope it still works to give it a helping hand.

I started to pull down the walk behind snow blower last night, but realized that I didn't have the right kind of oil to change it.  This one takes 5w30, not SAE30.  Sigh.  I did that because there was another storm moving in, albeit not a bad one supposedly so I just figured I would drive over it.

This morning I woke to more unexpected snow.  This storm was only supposed to be 1-3 inches, but we had around 6".  Ugh.  Fortunately my truck has excellent tires on it and I was still able to just drive over it, but we are approaching critical mass of snow, I really need to get the snowblowers ready.  That will be priority 1 this weekend.  Clearing the top area so I can run the snowblower without hitting stuff will be priority 2.

Samsung has a warranty checking online, but it sounds like my heat pump should be covered.  I will still have to pay the labor to get it swapped out, but hopefully the cost of the unit will be covered.

I finally got around to publishing the pictures from the southern lights stroll 5k I did while down in KY.  Those pictures are available at:  https://photobucket.com/share/bcce0035-407f-4cc8-b8b9-b9761a43f17a 

Before Winter:

• Back yard drainage.
• Close up tiny home.  Seal up plumbing.
• Clean off driveway at top.
• Smooth driveway enough to not catch the snowblower.
• Winterize equipment

Unlikely to happen at this point until next year:

• Build shelving for second room
• Insulate the water lines
• Take scrap metal to Buffum.  Clean up trash.
• Storm doors
• Gravel the driveway
• Side yard drainage
• Eliminate cap.

Winter Projects:

• Design deck
• Install whole house filter.
• Access panel upgrades in master closet
• Cut trails, or at least mark paths.