Had some snow in the evening and overnight, nothing folks up north would consider worth mentioning. Temps in the teens.
Though – just so you don’t think I’ve given up bitching about winter – it is mornings like this that remind me of one design flaw for which I never got around to finding a fix. Because of the Lair’s location down in this hollow, tight to the crotch of a complicated ridge, even though the solar panels are set as high as I could practically put them it’s already fairly late in the morning before they get enough sun for the snow to melt off. Ten o’clock now and it’s only just starting. And their height – the bottom edges of the panels are ten feet high – makes the old ‘tape a sqeegee to a pole’ trick problematic. So far I’ve always gotten away with moderation and patience, but one day we’ll have snowfall like we got in ’08 and I’ll wish I’d been more proactive.
