#winter problems

I will never not enjoy watching Joe rake the roof. I find it weirdly thrilling seeing all that snow come off the roof. My job after he does that is to clear the stairs and sidewalk of all that roof snow.

We're going into a cold snap that will keep the temperatures well below zero for a few days, then a rapid warming to at least the mid-30s, so the snow on the roof will begin melting from underneath from the heat rising from the living quarters, then the water flows down and freezes at the eaves, creating ice dams which just suck the big one. Definitely no fun to remove them, but if they get big enough they can create water damage inside the house.

That yellow house next door never gets ice dams. Unlike virtually every other house in our 100 year old neighborhood, the owners never turned the half story above the main house into additional bedrooms. Building out the half story brings heat just underneath the roof, melting snow and defeating the original purpose of that half story attic which was to keep heat from below away from the roof.

They will teach you weird facts against your will.

Bees can get dysentery.