Paradise ponders, winter wonderland edition... Well, the snow arrived essentially as predicted yesterday afternoon. By the time we woke this morning there were about three inches of the stuff on the ground. I was out shortly after daybreak to plow it before it started to melt (that's what the forecast said was going to happy) and got sloppy, or worse, icy. So I plowed the driveway, used the snowblower where the plow couldn't get, and just as I put the snowblower away it started raining. Inside of 60 seconds the driveway was perfectly clear, and now, just a few hours later, it's dry. That worked!
But there's much more snow in the forecast, including up to 8 inches tomorrow...
Yesterday a technician (a guy my age named Jim) showed up from Darrell's Appliances, a local outfit that's given us excellent service on two prior occasions, both times with Jim. This time we had him out to check out our two ovens. Debbie's been frustrated with them because the temperature seemed higher than what she set. Before we called Darrell's, I used an electronic thermometer to verify that both ovens were, indeed, out of whack. Jim used a more sophisticated thermometer, a thermocouple-based one, and determined that one oven was actually dead on, but the other was almost 150°F hotter than it should be! We're guessing that the one he tested as dead on has an intermittent problem in the thermostat, and the other is just plain broken. They're ordering new parts and he'll be back out when they come in. He was in our house for about two hours, doing a very thorough job, and holding an interesting conversation with us the entire time. Here's the main reason I wrote this paragraph: that visit will cost us $79, but we haven't been charged yet. They aren't bothering with that until after the parts are in and he comes out again to actually fix it. I just love the assumption of honesty that's so common here. No muss, no fuss, unasked for – they just behave that way by default...
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