We got a couple inches of snow overnight. The temperature never got out of the twenties all day, though the bright sun has converted quite a lot of the snow to mud already.
It’s been such a weirdly mild winter to this point that I haven’t actually had a lot of need for my new love-of-my-life…
…but it’s been running off and on for most of today, for sure. Not that it matters a lot but I wondered if my magic heat-powered woodstove fan would work on the new propane heater…
…It doesn’t. Top never gets more than uncomfortably warm. The thing is amazingly efficient: There’s really no point for the fireproof walls. They barely get warm. And the best thing about it…
It doesn’t burn wood. That efficiency is kind of the worst thing about it, to be honest. A little of it goes a long way. It wants the cabin in the seventies, and by this time of year I’m normally layered-up and keeping the inside in the high fifties to mid-sixties. Now I have to get into the habit of dressing for the indoors and then suiting up like an astronaut any time I want to step outdoors. But I can learn to live with problematic luxury. Still have some permanent plumbing to do, but it’s not in a problematic state any longer.
About the only other thing I have to report…
I was finally – after the better part of two years – able to score a couple of spare magazines for the Arex. Which makes practicing a lot less inconvenient. I can keep its regular mag filled with carry ammo instead of having to swap ammo back and forth every time I want to walk down the driveway and practice.
Other than that, nothing really going on. Tobie still finds snow dangerously exciting.
‘problematic luxury’
I know exactly that. A very good descriptor too.