Plowing

Our Arctic adventure continues! The technician will attempt his repairs once he can get parts for our 35-year-old boiler. In the meantime I’m keeping a fire in the fireplace.

(Update: the boiler’s now churning out heat just like it ought, but the house is big and the temperature is going up by one degree per hour. So by the time I get out of bed in the morning, we should be warm again.)

And of course we’re not alone in coping with winter. My birth state of Minnesota has acquired eight...