Our deep freeze continues and add to that a wind chill advisory - that just equals to scary cold. Jim ventured out this morning though - and thankfully our carriage house continued to keep temps above freezing. It's scary for Jim every time he heads up the driveway at the property because you never know if something happened like a power outage that could cause a major issue.
Jim worked this morning on the stairwell door area. He had to finish stuffing insulation in the right side of the doorframe and then was able to get the J-channel and drywall done. Looks great!
In the afternoon, Jim switched his attention to the water heater that had arrived a few days ago. When Kyle was here, he helped Jim move his desk into the utility room - it gives Jim a nice place to work right now. These are all the parts and pieces of the water heater plumbing...
Here's a picture of the furnace before...
And this is after Jim put lots of the plumbing fixtures on! You can see how complicated all of this is but wonderful progress!
At the end of the day, Jim headed up to the apartment to make blocking for the TV mount. This is 3/4" plywood and Jim had to drill holes, countersink the screws and will still have one more layer to put on top of this.
So Jim was feeling pretty good at the end of the work day. As he cleaned up and headed out to leave, it was almost 6:00, pitch dark and absolutely freezing. And he had a completely dead battery. Apparently, somehow he had left his parking lights on and between that and the cold, it drained the battery. Thankfully, he had pulled the battery out of the other 4Runner, but trying to jump the battery with frozen hands in the pitch dark was quite the challenge. Then it took awhile before he could get it to turn over. He even drove home with no heat on to conserve the battery! Now we just pray that it will start in the morning after sitting out in these horrid temps - it's to go to -13 overnight.
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| High 7/Low -13 |
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