View from up here…

We’ve had lots of snow and cold temps but now it’s settled down to a routine so I don’t notice the cold much. I keep the cabin at 64°F while I’m here and set it at 54°F at night while I sleep under an electric blanket. But if I have to get up, I’m use to the cold so it hardly fazes me.

Saturday evening, I went out to start the car and got…nothing. The dash lights came on but the engine wouldn’t turn over. So I grabbed my meter and started testing and found that the battery was dead, even though it had spent the night plugged into a float battery charger. Most people either use a float charger, or a battery heater and keep it plugged in throughout the winter when it dips below around -10°F. When I bought the car it came with a oil pan heater, and a radiator heater. I added the battery float charger.

The next day I got prepared with my charger/starter but tried starting it before I hooked anything up and it turned right over and started. Still, I thought that the symptoms mean that the battery had gone bad, especially since it’s a Die Hard and they often have intermittent problems like this (from my experience), so off I went to the store for a new battery. Up here they kind of have you over a barrel with batteries so I paid the $60 asked for what would be a $34 battery down in Oregon. Anyway, that little problem is taken care of so I shouldn’t have any more starting problems for a while.

Back in early October, I went to an art show that was billed as an invitational of sorts. Only 64 artists were invited to come up with pieces for the show as it’s billed as the 64th Parallel Contemporary Juried Fine Art Exhibit. I had not taken my camera but took pictures of some of the works with my phone camera. Enjoy!