It’s been a tough day… Chai is getting weaker.. she had one of her acupuncture appointments today and we could tell that she’s on her way out… She’s had a good long life…. The boys and their partners are both going to be home tomorrow For a trip it has been planned for a while… It’s both nice and sad that it’s coinciding with this time in Chai’s life
I’m so excited to see my kids
It’s going to be an emotional week
One nice thing today is it my friend Derek and his wife Jackie came by to say hi. They are up in Vermont for a couple of days from Pennsylvania. I’ve never met Jackie… She’s really nice. It was great seeing them both
Today my friend Pat Perry came over and set up the second heat pump for our house. These are amazing machines… And he’s an amazing wizard are figuring them out.
These devices both heat and cool. I’m still marveling at the fact that these devices can extract heat from the air Even when it’s -15°F outside. ). These things are called heat pumps because they are one of the most energy efficient ways of heating your house… But what I’m really excited about is that they also function as air conditioners. I get stupid when the temperature gets above 60° so I’m really looking forward to using this thing to help at least dry out the house and chill it down in the hot summers we get now
It was really fun watching Pat install both of these units. He’s really a pro.… The install easily and look really nice.… The best thing I can say about them is you don’t notice them… You don’t see them and you don’t hear them.They look like they’ve Been there forever.
It was fun watching Pat install these… And I even got to help. I did all the electrical work
I’m sitting here talking to the machine through the Alexa Right now… And it says hi :-)
I’m amazed at how easy and quick installation was… Pat also helped us figure out the financing so that half of the total cost of both of these was covered by rebates from Green Mountain power and from the Vermont energy.…I totally recommend busy times and I totally, totally, totally recommend that you talk to my friend Pat
I woke up at 4am and couldn’t go back to sleep. Like many folks .. lots on my mind.
It wasn’t worth going back to sleep since we’d made a plan to hike Bolton for sunrise with Diane and Kyle . We’ve been hiking Bolton every Wednesday and we knew it was gong to start raining early
Since i couldn’t sleep I used my time to escort two live trapped mice across the bridge to their new home .. the. I sat down to write some fun code .
At 5:30 diane and Kyle woke up and I e took off to the mountain
Zane and I played hooky today and duct out for an hour and a half midday to go run the Libbys Lookout Trail.… It’s pretty steep in parts but it’s so beautiful out that it’s worth it we can do the whole thing just over 30 minutes… Which I think is pretty good.
I love being outside
Tonight our beautiful old girl chai isn’t feeling well. She will be 17 next week if she hangs on
