Woke up to a nice dusting of white on the local landscape. Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! Continued cleaning the house basement for most of the morning. Responded to an urgent voicemail from Merry at noon triggered by her receiving a phone call about a low heat alarm at Chez Lapidus. The heat in the house was fine, so called Marshall’s Alarm Service, suspecting a problem with the alarm system. Cory Marshall was very prompt in responding. Turned out that the thermostat that is tied into the alarm service was set just a little too high compared to the house thermostat, which is turned down pretty low ‘cause the Lapidii are enjoying a week in Jamaica at the moment. Reinstalled the snow blower on the Kubota. Proficient in their engineering the Japanese may be, but writing directions is not one of their fortés. Eventually figured out how everything was supposed to fit back together… and made copious annotations to the instruction manuals. Perry came over late afternoon and, working together for an hour, we installed the copper heat shields behind the sauna stove. Then fired ‘er up and enjoyed the heat, and a delightful new ambiance, for a couple of hours.
