Winter is not going away without a fight.
I walked out my front door this morning at about 7:30.
My car was covered in ice. The temperature was 31 degrees. The forecast for today has a high temp of 41. It’s April 8th and we can barely get to the 40’s. So what if the Red Sox are 1-0 on the season. Spring is never coming. Never. NEVER.
Got out of bed a little while ago and checked the window. Nice and dry. It’s been 24 hours since anyone witnessed a drip. That’s very good. Unfortunately we’re in line to get another small snow storm. They are saying 3-5 inches, which given this month is little more than a flurry. Hell, it’s practically a summer day! That being said, it still adds weight and moisture to the roof. Two things we don’t want. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to get a little warmer and we might get rain. That’s concerning. While the warm and rain will wash away what’s left of the snow, and hopefully some of the ice dam, it won’t get it all. The amount of weight and water up there will increase quite a bit. I’m not quite ready to call this a win yet. Let’s see how things look on Monday.
It’s 10:42pm. There hasn’t been a drop of water through our picture window since about 9:00am. Not being a carpenter, I don’t know if it’s due to the cold outside or the lack of snow on the roof (thanks to the two guys who shoveled) or some other factor. I really don’t care. I’m just thankful as all hell that the leak has stopped at least for now.
Fingers crossed for continued good luck.
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This started at about 8:30 this morning. On Monday I hired a contractor to shovel my roof. Today is Thursday and he hasn’t arrived yet. He probably won’t get here until next week. So much for that. I started calling around to every other contractor under the sun. I spoke to a few people early in the process who all but laughed when I asked if they could get here today. One guy said he could do it tomorrow. Another said he might be able to do it tomorrow. I kept calling around. Eventually I stopped getting answers and just got voice mails. I booked an appointment with the guy who said he could do it tomorrow.
This sucks. I am so seriously sick of this friggin’ winter.
Canobie lake is still mostly ice. I want it all gone by the time I come back on Monday. That’s an order, lake.
The car was covered with ice this morning. April 3rd, my ass!
God damn it, Canobie Lake, would you hurry up and melt already? What the hell are you waiting for? April starts next week!
The house was icicle free two hours ago.
It’s been a busy morning so far. Busy and freakin’ cold.
I spent some music time. I redid the rhythm guitars on song #12 and also did the rhythm guitars on song #13. I actually did that one twice too. After I finished it I listened back and didn’t like it, so I just did it again. I then did the lead guitar on song #12. That one is about two measures of drums away from being complete. I wrote 12 and 13 at about the same time. I had listened to 1 through 11 and decided I was lacking in dumb rock songs. 12-14 were meant to fix that oversight. Unfortunately, 12 and 13 sound really similar. I might glue them together. After making a nine song, 34 minute suite in November, I wasn’t going to do anything like that this month. Now I think I am. Song 14 was supposed to rock too, but after adding the drums it feels a teeny tiny bit funky. About as funky as a fat, white, Irish American can get at least. I might make that one acoustic. We shall see.
After the music was done, it was time to watch USA play Slovenia in men’s ice hockey. After one period it was Slovenia 0 and Phil Kessel 2. I thought I’d run outside quickly and clean off some of yesterday’s snow. In one of those happy magical events, a plow dumped snow just off the side of our driveway. In doing so, the driver completely cleared the snow bank. Thank you, oh blessed plow driver. You made my day 100000 times easier. I will forever appreciate your kind gesture.
So after I shoveled and cleaned most of the ice off of the cars, and dug out the fire hydrant again, I went slightly crazy. The previous owners of our house left one of those roof shovel things in the garage. We had major icicles hanging of the gutters. We also have ice dams. Yippee. At first I thought I’d take that roof shovel thing and just knock down the icicles. After I finished the front of the house I went nuts. I couldn’t reach too far up onto the roof, but I dragged down as much as I could. There is still an ice dam that seems to be located mostly in the gutters themselves, but there is a lot less snow on the edge of the roof itself. I did the back of the house too. In some places I sank knee deep into the snow. I’m something like six feet five inches tall. Knee deep on me is chest deep on normal people. There is a ton of snow out there.
So team USA won their game against Slovenia. They are 3-0 in the preliminary round. Amazingly, Russia and Slovakia are scoreless in overtime right now. If Russia loses again… damn.
Later today we are going to go to my nephew’s third birthday party. I am still not feeling terribly well, and my wife woke up with the same bug today and is really feeling sick. Therefore we are going to go to the party, but we aren’t going to stay very long. We need to go home and let my love get better.
In unrelated news, I started a backup of my Flickr account yesterday afternoon. It’s about half way done. I have so much stuff over there, you can’t even believe it.
I might try to do some more recording later today. We’ll see how the day turns out.
Go Team USA!
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