Heating & Cold

We got a good start on one of the furnace installs today. Sure it was only a five hour day, but we'd have to return anyway because we don't have all the pieces we need to complete the job (even in the best cases the ducting has to be modified/added to because the new furnaces are usually shorter than the one being replaced -- the ducting adaptations could be built on-site if we had a metal brake, which we don't).

I think the most difficult thing about installing a new furnace, is probably removing the old one. Not only are the damn things heavier than their replacements, but they usually have to be dragged up a set of stairs. Lift the heavy thing, lower the light thing -- FUN!

*This is another shot of the Kettle River, here in GF, taken the same day as the previous one, back in February. I haven't been back out to this spot since then, but it's the opposite direction of town from where I am. Maybe I'll head out that way this Octobre.