09:33 – As I was getting ready to walk Colin after dinner last night, I turned on the natural gas logs for the first time this season to test them. I expected them to go out, because the oxygen sensor gets clogged with dust and needs to be blown out with canned air every year. I then walked Colin and by the time we got back I’d completely forgotten that I’d turned on the logs. In fact they had gone out, which I remembered in the middle of the night. So today we’ll vacuum out the fireplace and blow out the oxygen sensor so we’ll be prepared for cold weather.
I just got back from walking Colin. It feels like winter out there: 41F (5C) with winds gusting to 30 mph (48 kph). I don’t know what that translates to under the newer (post-2001) politically-correct wind-chill scale, but on my older (and realistic) wind-chill scale it felt like it was down in the teens F.