Blue sky and cold…

Someone was telling me the other day that I need to post some shots of these projects from the lake side rather than the driveway side. Once I got over the shock of realizing that there is actually someone who might occasionally read my blog or parts of it, I realized that that is true. I generally think about taking photos as I am getting in my truck to leave and so they become more of an afterthought. But, like I say, I never thought it really mattered, I am just trying to fill some space in a weekly blog and talking about the weather gets old…

So, yesterday I realized another reason I don’t take many pictures from the “front” or lakeside, (there is often confusion about what the “front” of a lake cabin is. On most homes the entry side is the front, but, to me, the lakeside of a lakehome is the “front” and the entry side is usually the back).

…anyway, here are a couple shots, the best I could get from the front. It is a walkout basement and starts sloping to the lake from there. If you try to get far enough to get a decent look at the place, there are too many trees to even see it, but at this distance, the upward angle makes it hard to see the cabin very well at all. In this case I was trudging through the 14″ of new snow, stumbling and slipping around…

Once again, the incredible blue sky that typifies so many of the pictures I take around Ely, (possibly because I don’t venture out much in the inclement weather).

For the more technical minded, here is the core of the heating system, a Steffes “off-peak” electric boiler in the basement. It is piped now to the hydronic tubing in the basement floor slab and will later be piped to the tubing that will be laid in the main floor for in-floor heating throughout.

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As always, after a snowfall like that, the sky clears and the temps plummet.  We had a low this morning of -18 degrees and a high today, (12/7), of about 6 below zero. But at least that constant accumulation of sugary powder has stopped for the time being. Everything now is hard and crunchy.

Burntside lake froze over on Thanksgiving night. I was out near the lake on Friday late afternoon as the sun was setting and took these pictures. It was about 6 below and dropping at that time.