Love that dog loon. We've been out for a couple runs today. Well, the dogs did....I just kinda' ambled.
We are about 20 min drive from the Atlantic but the storm is over water then comes inland as it heads northeast. So if it is a Nor'easter, we get clobbered. If a reg. storm, not so much. Just a 10 min drive further inland and you can see the difference. Same for just 10 min. drive closer to the ocean.
Just got back from the Christmas "most peaceful night of the year" concert and it was great. We have about 3 inches of fluffy slippery powder out there, and it's coming down in thicker flakes now at 11:15PM. I just loaded the stoves and it's off to dream land.
11 degrees here, 5 inches of snow, total predicted is 10-15 by morning. The Esse is all loaded up for the night after baking some trays of meatballs the wife made... now the big sauce pan will simmer on the cooler part of the griddle all night with meatballs and sausage in sauce.. The PH is loaded up and sitting with not a flame... in cat mode with the stove at 450 and flue gases at 550 for a nice clean chimney top...
A few inches of slush here! Warmed up to 40 degrees overnight! Started as snow then changed to rain.. Yuck
This morning. And it's still coming down with large flakes right now. I plowed yesturday so it doesn't look like much. We have about 6" so far.
That 550 shortly dropped back to match the stove... stove surface temp mass lags behind on a new load compared to flue gas... Flue gas is actually what's going on inside...but...... I'm almost thinking I have a very good draft and could be pulling a little extra heat... Maybe try a damper sometime , but I hate to add an extra equation as everything is so cut N dry to run... On the good side , the PH needs a good draft to run properly... People who had issues with the PH almost always had a poor draft.. When using a surface temp gauge ,,,seeing 250 you are actually seeing my temps on my probe as the surface temp is usually half of a probe reading, so I think I'm fine what I'm seeing.. I would like to try a damper sometime just to see how the stove runs.... If it turns out that it doesn't need a damper , I will just leave it open, no big deal... I'd rather have good flue temps and a clean chimney then running at a marginal temp and having chimney issues.... last thing I want...
Went down to -21c here last night, currently -15. Storm went just south of us, got about 3" overnight. Starting to brighten up out there now.
We got home from the Christmas concert last night, which was 15 slippery miles away about 11:00PM. It was coming down hard then, but we only had about 2 inches. It was very fine flakes.. light, but very slippery and very fine. A little but not much wind. I think we got about 8 or 9 inches, but difficult to tell as the wind picked up and put about 3 feet of it on my front steps and deck. Usually it dumps it all in my driveway, but not last night. What I noticed is that even though it is lite, I think it is so fine that it packed denser. So instead of 12 fluffy inches we got a few less dense inches. I hope you enjoy the pics.
Got some up here, too. Finished bringing this year's wood in under cover last night, and got the landing where I skid my firewood to all cleaned up and spare old roofing tin piled off to the side. Got most of the snow moved, just need to clean up where the cars were parked. Looks like we have enough that I can start dropping trees and skidding them. If only I didn't have the day job.
Hmmm - wind just kicked up. Maybe I should have been out moving snow and not sitting here by the stove.
