Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Getting through the night without freeze damage!

At about 8 pm, I put two propane heaters on in the garage and drove the temperature up from about 38 degrees to about 48 degrees. The electric "milk house" heater is still on since its very safe to leave on over night - even with the pets in there. If it falls over, it goes off. I don't like to leave it on, but I feel confident that the dog will bark loud enough to wake me if there's a problem. Last winter, we tested it to twenty below outside and it still was above freezung inside in the morning. Good insulation and the milk house heater is efficient, albeit a bit expensive. It might still be worth the investment to heat the garage properly, with a large propane heater, and just keep it above 40 all the time in there. I think the quote was 1300 dollars. The real difference would be maintaining the temperature automatically with less worry about fire.


Dance of the Deep - continued

"What is it Nomi?" Jim was surprised to see her at his cabin door. He was a lot more surprised to see the Vulture behind her with some kind of weapon at her back.  "We simply have to do what they want and they'll let us go", she offered weakly and matter of factly. "Ouch, that hurts", she added. It must have been less than an hour later that Jim, Heshy, and Nomi found themselves in the "dingy" with barely enough fuel to make the nearest port. "No telecommunication Heshy, can't you do something to strectch the range?" Jim was seriously worried now. They were too far out to handle most emergencies, even simple ones. He began to understand his job better now, from the other side. He began to understand what serious matters their little  "jokes" had been, and he began get a very faint insight into how he had gotten them into this situation in the first place.

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