Early Big Snow (Day 755)

I've been diddling around on the house for the past few weeks, finishing the backsplash tiling, hooking up the ceiling speakers and volume controls, and preparing for the final naildown of the upstairs flooring. Also did a major clean/organize of the garage to make room for my (new to me) Delta unisaw. Picked up this 10-yr old unit on Craigslist from a hobbyist in Bainbridge. He was downsizing his shop, to my benefit. Went there to look at it only knowing it was a 3-hp 10" cabinet saw; on inspection it is a 5-hp 220v saw with router table, Makita plunge router, and rolling saw base. Sweet--I cleaned up on this one. Then I had to wire the outlets for 220v (match outlets to saw), make up a long extension cord, and make some space for it.

Yesterday morning we awoke to a rude suprise. It was snowing up here in Paradise by the Bay. Not supposed to do that—we left the snow behind in Denver. To make matters worst, it snowed all day, blew all night and turned into a major winter scene. 6" on the flats, 12" elsewhere. Managed to buy one of the last snow shovels at the True Value store, and am going out to this morning get some snow melt stuff. If it turns cold (as forecast), any ice will be with us for a few weeks. Otherwise, all is well. Upstairs bath cabinets are scheduled for delivery tomorrow, the floor guy will get up here when the roads clear, and there is a big turkey in the frig. No worries.