Well it snowed. R bundled up and went into the garage to start the snow blower and it wouldn't start. Yup that's right. Two days ago ran like a top. Today nothing. R pulled the plug because with these two stroke engines, the plug can easily get fouled. He said it looked like a cobweb across the electrode. He blew it off and reinstalled it. He wasn't expecting much but what the heck.
Our blower has an electric start. It uses a heavy duty extension cord rather than a battery to start the blower. This is actually great because batteries go dead and in extreme cold they don't turn over a cold engine very well. R hit the start button and it started right up. Whew...dodged a bullet there.
So after thawing out, we got another late start. R worked on the ceiling and I worked on the paint scraping. My paint scraping is moving along fairly fast. This area isn't uncovering anything unexpected. Of course I found another switch box and where there was once a sconce. But the paint is coming off without much trouble.
The snow this past week was so light and dry that the first time we used our leaf blower to move it to the sides...since then, the leaf blower will not start...so we shoveled. Wasn't bad because it was so light, but when we have a heavy snow, we will get the snow blower out. Hope it starts!
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