Neanderpundit

By the morning it will be brutally cold, and won’t be getting any warmer soon. I will be parked in front of the fire except when I’m lugging wood, and happy not to be several hundred miles away on a job.

yet.

Stay warm, folks, and stay hunkered down. This too will pass

There were but few of us there. Went to breakfast at the Omelette House, and there was a sea of empty tables, I have NEVER seen an empty table not immediately filled there, not in years. Stopped for milk, because we were already out, got a fresh gallon of antifreeze, and came home.

The drive is easily six inches deep in snpw and will be deeper before it’s over, I won’t be snowblowing until it’s done or at least a lot later in the day, whichever comes first.

I have a job tomorrow out of town but I may take a snow day, more so because of the cold than the snow. And they supposedly got hit harder there than we did here. So For today, I have a self imposed snow day. I’ll get prepped for my upcoming weeks and declare myself snowbound

On the way to a job yesterday the Exploder started making a really nasty noise, so I called in and turned around and limped home, hoping it would make it. It did, and Partner and I spent the rest of the day dismantling what I feared was a bad differential. We yanked it, (No mean feat) and dismantled it, but it seems to be OK. there is one wheel bearing that feels iffy and I have a spare, so we’ll change that, and I need to look hard at the Ujoint on the front propshaft, but at least I have a garage in which I can do this, and a torpedo heater that doesn’t smell to keep it warm. And I have a spare vehicle just in case, so it isn’t a disaster, but it certainly is an inconvenience. Today we reassemble and I can barely wait, which is why I’m up at such an ungodly hour.