3.3.2015 - Update

Well...March is officially here.  February was definitely one for the record books in a lot of the country, between the cold temperatures and all the snow.  Here in upstate New York, we broke a record for the coldest average daily temperate at a whopping 7.3 degrees for the month of February.  In addition, we had 20 days with lows below zero.  Of those 20, 13 were double-digit below zero lows!  That's some cold weather! 

Jim's starting to get things moving a bit in anticipation of warmer days to come.  He spent some time with his Lowe's rep yesterday giving her parts and pieces to try and track down.  She also showed him our siding and our Advan-Tech, the decking plywood Jim will use.  It's all tucked away nicely in the rafters of Lowe's.

Yesterday, Jim went to the barn to try and find his planer - which somehow he managed to.  In all this snow, just getting to the barn is no easy task, let alone finding random tools now that all the stored cars are blocking access.  He needed it to plane a bit of the doorframe off to fit the new door.

Today, he went up to the land for a bit in the afternoon.  It took him over 30 minutes to walk up to the temporary electric pole because the snow was thigh-deep!  You can see how much the yard hydrant is buried.

Then he worked on planing a bit off of the door jamb - here is the door set in temporarily to see how it fits.  Looks good!

 

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