Ending and Beginning

We’re having our first serious snowstorm of the season. It started yesterday evening and is still going at 9am today. We have about a foot on the ground so far. The wind has shifted around from the Northeast to the Northwest, and it’s supposed to get very windy and cold later today. Our power blinked off momentarily sometime during the night.

I shoveled the front steps, walk, and driveway today. The snow is sticky enough to shovel well, but not too heavy.

I was a little concerned about the earthworms with the warmish weather we had up until last week and then heading down to zero tonight, but with this much snow on the ground they’ll be well insulated, and freezing of the ground will take place slowly. They should have plenty of time to get below it.

My place of work is closed today and both boys have a snow day, so we’re all together as a family today. That doesn’t happen very often.

We hit a low point in our electricity use of under 13kWh/day for a 21-day period ending 11/7/2009, and it’s been creeping back up to 15.73kWh/day for the 11 days ending today. Why would that be? The refrigerator and the freezer should be running less, we didn’t turn on the furnace until 12/4 and it’s hardly been running at all since, and the dehumidifier is off. I wonder if it could be the water heater needing more electricity as the temperature in the basement drops. It’s time to get a timer on that thing.

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