Winter preparedness and other things

[alaric]

Last week, I got the snow tires swapped onto the Volvo, just after the first real snow of the winter.  This morning, cymrullewes had her snow tires mounted and fitted to the Baby Benz, just in time to head off to Portland, Maine for the first actual job interview she's gotten in ten and a half months of job hunting since being laid off at the end of January.  Portland is further than she really wants to go for a job, and if she gets it we'll end up paying Maine state income tax, but a job is a job, and I don't think Maine's state income tax laws are quite as Byzantine (and certainly not as kleptocratic) as those of Massachusetts.

The temperature's actually risen noticeably above freezing for the first time in a week; it's over 37°F on the shady side of the house.  The snow melting off the trees out back sounds like heavy rain.  I'm hoping it'll warm enough, and for long enough, for the front and rear gutters to thaw.  (We turned on the power to the roof-edge heat cables last week, in the hope of preventing ice dams this winter, but unfortunately failed to notice that after the contractors doing the repair work on the house installed the cable along the north side of the roof, they helpfully unplugged BOTH sets of cables.  We didn't notice until Sunday that they were unplugged, so the gutters are now full of ice.)

Comments

[janetmiles]

Good luck to cymrullewes!

[merlinpendragon]

Good luck on the job! I hope she gets it.

As for the unplugged roof heaters, just plug them back in. They should be able to melt the ice without causing any trouble. I think.