Well, I think we can say that winter has really come in. Saturday night we officially hit -11° (although my thermometer showed -20°) and we got an honest 2" of snow on Sunday.
Roads are very icy this morning; as I followed the UPS semi (with doubles) into the round-about about 75 ft back at 10 mph and barely managed to keep from hitting him, the road was solid glare ice. Traffic on Hiway 2 that is normally 10%-15% over the speed limit was 10% below this morning.
Went to Bemidji on Saturday, good trip and lots of fun. Spent Saturday trying to help Matt work on the neighbor's '97 Suburban. The joint between the pitman and the drag link has a lot of slack, so we are replacing the pitman. Normally shouldn't be that hard of a job, except that in this case the pitman barely clears the front frame crossmember and so the steering box must be totally removed from the vehicle to R&R the pinion. We made it as far as getting the box loose, we just need to figure out how to snake it out of the hole now. Fortunatly we are working inside the neighbor's garage, so we are out of the snow and wind, but the garage isn't heated. We used my little "sunflower" yesterday, but that mostly just lets us warm our hands occasionally. I think we are going to have a 150,000 btu reddy-heater tonight which should make it easier.
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